i don't know why i can't figure it out, but i can't use any colours with the animated patterns no matter what i do. i just want red and black instead of white and black lmao. any idea what i'm doing wrong?
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The “Patterns Interface” section of the Decker docs describes the animated patterns as:
A list of up to 256 pattern indices for animated patterns.
You can include solid “red” and “black” in the animated sequence because they have pattern indices (35 and 1). But if you want a pattern pattern, those are described as:
An 8x8 image interface comprised of patterns 0 and 1.
So actual patterns can’t have red in them, only patterns 0 and 1, which are (by default) white and black. You could set palette 32 to be red instead of white to get red-and-black animations, but that would make every white pixel red, which probably isn’t what you want.
As a concrete example, assuming the default palette, if you wanted to set animated pattern 28 to red and black alternating as fast as possible you could use The Listener to issue the following Lil snippet:
patterns[28]:35,47
To halve the speed you could double up each pattern index, e.g.:
patterns[28]:35,35,47,47
There are more examples of this sort of thing in All About Color.
Is that clear?