There are 4 ways to highlight the featured dancer automatically during their Canon cycle. It is a way to make them stand out from the other dancers and draw the audiences attention to them.
AutoGlow
AutoFade
AutoColor
AutoChat
Auto values have an IN and OUT value. The IN value is the value assigned at the BEGINNING of their Canon Cycle. The OUT value is the value assigned a the END of their Canon Cycle.
There is also an AutoOn and AutoOff for each of the 4 types of Autos. AutoOn enables and AutoOff disables.
For AutoColor use the [Groupings]–>[AutoCanon]–>AutoColorOn or [Groupings]–>[AutoCanon]–>AutoColorOff
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AutoColor-ing is special because it is capable of coloring a whole animesh when the animesh is simple
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coloring parts of an animesh as in the case of when an animesh is wearing clothing or it has attachments which are really called links.
Since link-numbers are always changing, the reliable method of determining the proper link-number is by the link-name. I choose to rename my links to something meaningful and short.
In the case of the Arabian dancers, there are 4 names.
Hair, Dress, Veil, and Silk.
There is NO menu command for translating link-names into link-numbers. We need to use PREPFORM or Sequencer or AutoFX for this function.
1,ColorCanonLinks,Silk%Dress%Veil | 0
This command will preset multiple link numbers in the animesh so that a subsequent coloring command knows which links (clothing) to color. We will tell it to change all the clothing to yellow and then change back.
In the case of a simple all-in-one animesh with no links, we would use the ClothesLink command. This will change the whole animesh color
1,ClothesColor,-1 | 0
Here is a PREPFORM command that does it all for the right, left, and center sections of dancers. It changes to YELLOW during the Canon cycle and then back to BLUE, RED, and BLACK, depending on original color, at end of cycle.
Here is the full PREPFORM command on 1 line. I pre-executed it for the demo but then used the manual CanonHome command to trigger it in order to time it better with the music
/* Start Here
1,Target%right,ColorCanonLinks@%Silk%Dress%Veil,AutoColorAmount%<1,1,0>%<0,0,1>,Target%left,AutoColorAmount%<1,1,0>%<.502,0,0>,Target%r,AutoColorAmount%<1,1,0>%<0,0,0>,Target%all,AutoColorOn,Canon%Home
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