I am essentially trying to build an Exar Kun saber, where each side could be turned on or off individually, as he supposedly did spontaneously mid-fight. Perhaps there’s a simpler solution in making a blade style where one of the sides goes on and off for some prolonged period of time?
This is a piece of cake using existing blade styles, but you’d be tied into the coded time periods.
Or, slightly more elaborate yet crude workaround, you could Trigger the 2nd blade on at will while the first blade is running and then off again when you want, but there’d need to be a duration set for each state that would need to be long enough to not expire unexpectedly while running the blade…and you’d then need to switch presets to reset it.
Like this for example:
// 5 minute wait or reload preset
Layers<
Black,
TransitionEffectL<TrConcat<TrWipe<500>,Red,TrDelay<30000>>,EFFECT_USER1>,
TransitionEffectL<TrConcat<TrWipeIn<500>,Black,TrDelay<30000>>,EFFECT_USER2>
>Not necessarily.
You could make it behave differently depending on what preset is selected.
Or, make a global setting for it changeable with a menu.
(Or a thousand other options…)