I have a circuit that I started with that I guess you could call a "rain drop" effect and circuit works "as advertised" when I breadboard it. However I am trying to modify it, without success. The fact that I don't know anything about shift registers doesn't help.
The circuit function is as follows:
8 LED's light and stay lit one at a time, then turn off one at a time until all are off. Then it repeats.
Modification: Add a mode switch to have the circuit perform 1-8 turn on, all off, repeat 1-8 turn on, all off. Rinse and repeat.
NOTE: I have run across a video of this but the it is set up with cascaded registers and the schematic is beyond my limited knowledge on this.