Hi Drew,

That part made sense to me, but in the angles column, why does it keep repeating the same angle over and over again for the same size?  e.g. for the 4th line, there are a ton of pipe characters followed by the 0 (degree) string.  On other rows it looks like it just repeats the angle in that column based on the number of shots.  Is th…Read More

DrewFinale wrote:
 

Have you checked out VDL Colors? Are any of the existing colors a good match?

 

Yes, I have found keeping that color ‘half’ wheel page open is super helpful. Turquoise is at least in the right family, it’s not all that close.

Here’s another example where I don’t think the sound is defaulting in correctly:

1.75″ Gold Chrysanthemum To Silver Time Rain w/ Tiger Tail Single Shot

It draws the silver time rain effect correctly, but no sound .

Regarding your suggestion to add nodes anywhere, do I need to dump this out to a text file first?  When I click the…Read More

HI Drew,

Glad it was helpful. I work for a large software company and hence am always on the hunt for software issues to report :).  Neither of these seem very high priority to me personally for what it’s worth.

I didn’t get a chance to try Dirk’s suggestion, but seems like I’d be picking the whistle sound and losing the shell break -…Read More

I’ve got a pretty easy one – can you add the RGB value for Teal to VDL?  I’m shocked how many cannister shells I’m loading into my inventory that use that description.

Regarding the whistles issue, here’s one example:

VDL = 30mm Rising Whirls & Whistles Tail To Blue Peony  [This is silent]

VDL = 30mm Rising Whirls & Whistles Tail [Works as expected]

In the first VDL, the effect editor, the star phase of “rising whirls whistles” does not have a sound element indicating whistling. I could be running into…Read More

Sounds good.

Let me focus on the first one to start (heights that don’t make sense to me). I built ~5 cakes where the heights are all <40m, but the combined cake is 110m.

Looking back at the cakes I created today, they’re all related to my poor attempts at trying to recreate very slow flying fish effects. From your other video, I saw Meteor…Read More

no, I hadn’t found those yet, so thank you for the advice. I’ll watch those to try and avoid asking questions you’ve already answered!  Appreciate the help. If I run into effects I can’t replicate, I’ll post here, unless you suggest a different medium. thanks!

thanks, Drew – that’s super helpful. Looking forward to learning more tips and tricks.  You should consider a more advanced cake building class or set of tutorials that can be built up into a you tube playlist!

thanks – that was helpful to read.  Two other questions:

1) is there a library of effects somewhere to review?

2) Is there a way to combine two different effects in a comet?  In the example video below, I was assuming I’d use some type of straight comet to go getter, but can’t seem to replicate it e…Read More

Thanks, that was helpful.  Is there a complete list of effect options somewhere?  Also, is there a VDL option to combine two effect visuals into the same ‘effect’?

As an example, was curious if you can model something like this where the end of the comet is essentially a go getter.

That worked excellent – thank you for the advice. Looking forward to playing more with the new effects!