When I saw Dean had made some kind of color cycling thing out of the tiki frame, I thought....
he's just baiting me, ya' know, trying to trip me up. But I fell for it again!
That's when I started messing around to come up with my own tricks.
(tiki_color_a.ild)
When I figured out the effect I wanted to do, I realized there was a way to do it but it involved importing a palette from a text file.
So I went into menu p and added a new blank target palette and added the seven colors to it. Then I exported that as txt.
Code:
# This file was generated by LaserBoy-09-06-2022 !!!
#
# the free, multiplatform laser display application
# by James Lehman <james@akrobiz.com>
# Extra Stimulus Inc., Akron, Ohio USA
# http://laserboy.org/
# ASCII format version: LaserBoy-txt-07-09-2021
# ----------------------------------------------------------------
palette rgb ttl_clrs
255 0 0
255 255 0
0 255 0
0 255 255
0 0 255
255 255 255
0 0 0
Then I opened that (from within the txt folder) in a text editor and copied each color ten times like this:
Code:
# This file was generated by LaserBoy-09-06-2022 !!!
#
# the free, multiplatform laser display application
# by James Lehman <james@akrobiz.com>
# Extra Stimulus Inc., Akron, Ohio USA
# http://laserboy.org/
# ASCII format version: LaserBoy-txt-07-09-2021
# ----------------------------------------------------------------
palette rgb in_tens_
255 0 0
255 0 0
255 0 0
255 0 0
255 0 0
255 0 0
255 0 0
255 0 0
255 0 0
255 0 0
255 255 0
255 255 0
255 255 0
255 255 0
255 255 0
255 255 0
255 255 0
255 255 0
255 255 0
255 255 0
0 255 0
0 255 0
0 255 0
0 255 0
0 255 0
0 255 0
0 255 0
0 255 0
0 255 0
0 255 0
0 255 255
0 255 255
0 255 255
0 255 255
0 255 255
0 255 255
0 255 255
0 255 255
0 255 255
0 255 255
0 0 255
0 0 255
0 0 255
0 0 255
0 0 255
0 0 255
0 0 255
0 0 255
0 0 255
0 0 255
255 255 255
255 255 255
255 255 255
255 255 255
255 255 255
255 255 255
255 255 255
255 255 255
255 255 255
255 255 255
0 0 0
Then I imported this palette back in using option a in the p menu.
In menu k or l (L), hitting the grave key ` (un-shifted tilde) copies the frame. So I ran the frame index up to 99 copies of that one frame.
With this new in_tens_ palette as the target palette, I went into menu c and used option E (capital applies to all frames) to do an axial recolor of the frame_set.
The values of "set palette span factor" of 1.0 means that the palette gets spread through whatever way it goes through a frame one whole time. It doesn't matter how many vertices are in a frame or how many colors are in the palette.
The value of "color frame shift" of 1 means that for each frame in the set the palette index starts one ahead of the previous (palette index cycling).
Then I just ran through the frame_set until I saw where it came around to repeat itself and selected and deleted the remaining frames in the frame_set.
That's when I realized this was a neat effect that I would like to add to the "p transform colors and palette set" menu.
Now everything in menu "c transform frame colors" (when it's in palette mode, options a through m) uses the target palette to recolor the frame or the whole frame_set.
This makes more sense than the way it was.