Main Blade with Three Accent strings - Config Questions

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Hi,

I have only posted here once before and I am back trying to learn higher level of function like adding power on and activated blade styles to my accent LEDs and I don’t think I am doing this right even though I created a 3 Blade one crystal chamber setup that does work but I just have a feeling I didn’t do this right. I can figure out the styles like flashing/pulsing on power up then maybe a slow swipe to fast then solid lights on preon activation (or at least that is what I have in my head) I have seen Khal do some pretty cool animations with his hilt and chassis debuts and would like to get to that level.

I need an expert to help an intermediate out. Here is my current Blade config, I am using all as accent accept the main. Is this the right way to configure Accents to accept more complicated animation combinations? I create styles using the style helper on Fett263’s site. Maybe someone in this forum has experience using a 10 string neo as well as a 5 string control box with 2 string LED Crystal chamber. Sorry if I haven’t used the right wording.

BladeConfig blades[] = {
 { 0, WS281XBladePtr<144, bladePin, Color8::GRB, PowerPINS<bladePowerPin2, bladePowerPin3> >(),
    WS281XBladePtr<26, blade2Pin, Color8::GRB, PowerPINS<bladePowerPin1> >(),
    WS281XBladePtr<26, blade3Pin, Color8::GRB, PowerPINS<bladePowerPin4> >(),
    WS281XBladePtr<2, blade4Pin, Color8::GRB, PowerPINS<bladePowerPin5> >()
  , CONFIGARRAY(presets) },
};
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I think you did it right.

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Excellent, so know I just need to get more familiar with adjusting special animations in the blade styles I assume? Thanks for getting back to me so fast! I suppose that I could reduce the LED Max Count in each accent WS281XBladePtr as well, or what I did was adjust the counts using the built in Edit Settings.

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If you reduce your pixel count in your blade array to match your actual number of pixels, you’ll get more accurate animations. Edit mode works fine for blade length too, but you can never go above the number in the blade array.

You can either try the near exhaustive list of selections on fett263’s site, use the editor, or both.

If you get stuck and want something really specific, ask and someone can help :slight_smile:

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I haven’t used the editor yet, maybe I’ll give that a go. I do flash every board to enable the use of editing via USB Web so, there is that. My plan was to try to hammer down some power up animations using Fett263’s site. Thanks for responding! Much appreciated