Use Color Palettes to get more out of your Nutcracker effects

[smeighan]

One thing we might miss in using xlights is the judicious use of color palettes. You can have unlimited palettes, 6 colors per.


edit the palette. You can save the current palette and give it a name, you load a palette from a saved name.
you can have unlimited palettes.
Have one dim colors
one bright
one palette that are blues, greens.
you then load a palette to use. Every effect can have a different palette.
The only thing you cant do is change the palette mid stream in an effect. You cant start spirals with one palette and end with a different one.
Effect 1 and 2 have their own set of palettes. All of this palette info is stored in your sequence xml.






try some of these
http://www.tigercolor.com/color-lab/color-theory/color-theory-intro.htm


and then use this free tool that uses this theory
http://www.sessions.edu/color-calculator

 

[BundyRoy]

Thanks Sean. I use the colour palettes a far bit but didn't realise I could save them. Thanks. I had also been wondering about the science behind colour patterns and selecting combinations that look good. Will use those tools from now on too.

 

[thevikester]

That's great stuff Sean...thanks!

 

[arw01]

Was struggling with that the other day, guess I still haven't seen the save spot! I just kept entering the same values every time I changed elements and effects, eventually I got all of them the same, but being able to save and load them would have saved me quite a bit of effort!


Alan