Its the right manner to use Groups?

Paolo Pini

• December 30, 2020 11:37

Hi all,

I am relatively new to HeavyM, I would like to map a piano keyboard image to a wall, to individually map a keyboard part I need to create almost 35 groups, one for every white key to map.
Is this the right way to do it or there is another way?

Thanks in advance

Paolo

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  Support

  • December 31, 2020 10:33

  Hi Paolo,

  I'm not entirely sure I understand what you're trying to achieve. Do you want to draw the piano keys or project an image for each key?

  If you want to draw the keys, you could just use one group for all white piano keys if they all have the same color/effect, as all shapes in a group have the same effects.

  Here is a tutorial detailing how group effects work in HeavyM 1: https://heavym.net/blog/en/tutorials/add-effects/effects-introduction/. Hope that helps.

  Léa
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  Paolo Pini

  • January 01, 2021 12:38
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  Hi Léa,

  thanks for your reply.

  Yes I want to map every single key of the piano keyboard to simulate the player chord, I understood that I need to create a group for each key I want to draw.

  https://youtu.be/ehuPaFy8Pro 

  Thanks

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  Wel.t.Raum

  • July 31, 2021 12:22

  I also recognized that this could be a problem.. is it possible somehow, to have effects rather within a group OR on a single face within an group? With the face effect overwriting group effect or vice versa to chose from? Would be great!
  (I use groups for organizing my layers and it pretty fast gets very confusing, if there is a new group needed for every detail of an eye, e.g.)

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  Claire

  • August 03, 2021 14:43

  Hi Wel.t.Raum,

  Thank you for your explanations!

  I understand that the management of effects by groups is sometimes constraining, especially with projects whose design is as detailed as an eye.

  We don't plan to change this feature for the moment. But I'll add your idea to our list of suggestions, it will be very useful when we think about improvements on groups and effects.

  Thanks a lot!

  Claire

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