One step further.. I am still not happy with the way the colour cycling is going but I have more things to try
The radius of the blades has been increased a bit
how they look in a game and the encyclopedia at the brightest point of the cycle
and the darkest point ( Cycling colours do not appear in the encyclopaedia )
Further experiments will focus on the order the flashing greys are applied . Right now that is one gray on one side of the "blade" and another on the other side but I suspect that WYSIWYG as the cycling *seem* to follow a set order no matter which colour is applied.
It's a six second cycle series of six flashing greys but also one non flashing black and one non flashing grey and what I want to get is them appearing in sequence but it doesn't seem to work that way.....tests still ongoing as time allows
I had been thinking that all but the twin blade 'copters that have the blades fixed on the Icon draw their blades from one SHP file and IF I can get this looking more the way I hoped I could set up the Graphics folder to hold the original fixed blades set that could be swapped if anyone finds the "spinner-flasher" blades annoying so we are interested in opinions pro and con to this idea