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    MMM-PenPlotter -Render mesmerizing line animations on your mirror!

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      sdetweil @BerkSmash1984
      last edited by

      @BerkSmash1984 welcome to the fun of backgrounds!

      somehow you would need to make the image background not transparent, but you will get a big black box instead

      Sam

      How to add modules

      learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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        BerkSmash1984 @sdetweil
        last edited by

        @sdetweil lol Indeed! Still a cool module. I will likely go back and forth between this and MMM-Wallpapers… Thanks for your help Sam

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          tdw @BerkSmash1984
          last edited by

          @BerkSmash1984
          I use both MMM-PenPlotter and MMM-Wallpaper (the jupadin version) and was able to make the images transparent with no black box. You need to edit each of the svg files in the example_svg folder.

          Most of the files were updated by adding

          fill="transparent"
          

          in the section with:

          <desc>pwidth:500;pheight:500;</desc>
              <path
                 stroke="#999999"
                 stroke-width="0.2mm"
                 fill="transparent"
                 
          

          There were a couple where background was already defined in the 3rd row of the files so it had to be updated there. Let me know if you need more specifics.

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            BerkSmash1984
            last edited by

            Oh awesome! I am just now seeing this. Let me give it a go!

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              BerkSmash1984 @BerkSmash1984
              last edited by

              @tdw
              That did indeed work. Many thanks!

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                bballboy21 @MZ-BER
                last edited by bballboy21

                @MZ-BER
                @tdw
                @sdetweil @BerkSmash1984
                @RaspiManu
                Find some guilds on making your own SVG animations for your mirror. https://jbamford.github.io/Animate-SVG-Files-Breakdown/

                Accepting pull requests with new SVGs to add!

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                  BerkSmash1984 @bballboy21
                  last edited by

                  @bballboy21
                  I am interested in attempting to create one, but how do you handle the code when path is formatted as shown below, with spaces and new lines and not having separate paths individually spelled out like what is discsussed in: https://youtu.be/Nz0SzKKdd-A

                  a2d4923b-0f68-4737-83cf-cbb21dbd66c0-image.png

                  The code from this screenshot is the bunny, found at: https://drawingbots.net/knowledge/tools/svg-generator
                  86be0fd6-c2fb-41ee-860b-4d3252263567-image.png

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                    BerkSmash1984 @BerkSmash1984
                    last edited by

                    @bballboy21
                    Also, if you use https://sandify.org/ to generate a svg file, how do you figure out the number of paths to update the stroke-dasharray and stroke-dashoffset values in the style section, as the svg file will not have individual paths specified?

                    Example:
                    d1e609c3-424b-4175-a449-46a268f5cdec-image.png

                    If I move the svg file to the example_svg folder on my MM, it just shows to completed picture, and does not actually draw it. I am guessing this is bc the value for both are currently set to 1 (but again not sure how to determine what those values would actually be)

                    66621e7c-6836-42db-adf2-575646dceebe-image.png

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                      BerkSmash1984 @BerkSmash1984
                      last edited by

                      @bballboy21
                      Disregard, I figured it out. I did not realize that the path is effectively a value of 1 if not otherwise specified, thus following the guide on https://jbamford.github.io/Animate-SVG-Files-Breakdown/ and specifying

                      pathLength="1"
                      

                      and

                      stroke-dasharray: 1;
                      stroke-dashoffset: 1;
                      

                      in there respective places in the svg files allows the animation to work.

                      2b726e69-a24f-4d12-98b1-4dbff7b41a52-image.png

                      I can now create as many animated svg files for this module as I like, using https://sandify.org. Awesome!

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                        ratandalez
                        last edited by

                        Thanks for sharing your module!!

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