Hi folks. I am still very new to programming DJ lighting with DMX control software. I have been working with QLC+ for a while now and I absolutely love it.
However, I just purchased 6 ADJ Inno Pocket Wash lights. These are moving head wash lights.
I have no experience with moving head lights. This is my first time owning them.
I have watched a bunch of videos about ShowXpress and saw how it has a generator to create great scenes with moving head lights without much effort.
I am not asking whether QLC+ has a generator because I know it does not. However, I am desperately trying not to have to switch from QLC+ to ShowXpress just for the generator.
Can you folks with lots more experience than me help me to understand how to program meaningful moving head scenes without having to spend literally hundreds of hours doing it? If there's any reasonable way I want to try it so I can try to stay with QLC+.
Thanks in advance for any help you experts can give me. I love the program and don't want to have to give it up for this reason.
Rob
"Generator" Function
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Chris De Rock
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Just create color-only-scenes for your wash lights, then create a bunch of effects for the movement and combine effects and scenes in collections.
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mcallegari
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QLC+ has a generator but it's called "Wizard".I am not asking whether QLC+ has a generator because I know it does not.
http://www.qlcplus.org/docs/functionwizard.html
It's not specific to moving heads, but it's a shortcut for scenes and animations.
As Chris suggested, then you just need to combine some Scenes with EFX into Collections and you can get complex effects.
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EBDS
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Thanks guys for the responses. Being so new to all of this I am still a little confused about the statement 'Create a bunch of FX for the movements'. Could you possibly go into a little more detail about what exactly you mean and how I do that? It sure would be appreciated.
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janosvitok
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See http://qlcplus.org/docs/efxeditor.html
I suggest you create couple of "position" scenes - with only Pan/tilt channels. (e.g. downstage left, center, right, upstage left, center, right, all down, all up, all to front, etc.)
then you create couple of EFX (circle, 8, horizontal line, vertical line) with origin at 127,127 and mark them "relative". Now you can combine the positions and effects,
they will be "added" together (i.e. circle at downstage left, circle at upstage right).
Then play with start offset and reverse in the general tab. I usually have one plain efx, another with every other head marked reverse
and a third one that has start offset split evenly between all heads (0,90, 180, 270 for 4 heads).
Finally create 2 Speed dials: one that will control duration of all EFX and another that will control fade times of position scenes.
This will give you pretty good start. Check my (pretty old) workspace at https://github.com/janosvitok/qlcplus-w ... c-2014.qxw
I suggest you create couple of "position" scenes - with only Pan/tilt channels. (e.g. downstage left, center, right, upstage left, center, right, all down, all up, all to front, etc.)
then you create couple of EFX (circle, 8, horizontal line, vertical line) with origin at 127,127 and mark them "relative". Now you can combine the positions and effects,
they will be "added" together (i.e. circle at downstage left, circle at upstage right).
Then play with start offset and reverse in the general tab. I usually have one plain efx, another with every other head marked reverse
and a third one that has start offset split evenly between all heads (0,90, 180, 270 for 4 heads).
Finally create 2 Speed dials: one that will control duration of all EFX and another that will control fade times of position scenes.
This will give you pretty good start. Check my (pretty old) workspace at https://github.com/janosvitok/qlcplus-w ... c-2014.qxw
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EBDS
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Thank you very much. Some of your description is over my head at the moment but I will study what you've said, try to experiment, and see if I can move up the learning curve. I guess it will take some time.
Thanks.
I will also check out that work space. I think being able to look at that may help a lot.
Rob
P.S. I just clicked that link you gave me. Is there a way to download that file and load it into QLC+. It doesn't really help me a lot to just see the internal code.
Thanks.
I will also check out that work space. I think being able to look at that may help a lot.
Rob
P.S. I just clicked that link you gave me. Is there a way to download that file and load it into QLC+. It doesn't really help me a lot to just see the internal code.
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janosvitok
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Warning! the workspace is in mixture of English and Slovak, so here is a quick course in Slovak language 
kruh: circle
osem: eight
postupne: one by one
striedavo: alternating or odd/even
pohyby: movements
farby: colors
dym: smoke
Speed dials:
D: duration
F: fade
One day I'll clean it up or even write a tutorial... but these days I'm out of time.
kruh: circle
osem: eight
postupne: one by one
striedavo: alternating or odd/even
pohyby: movements
farby: colors
dym: smoke
Speed dials:
D: duration
F: fade
One day I'll clean it up or even write a tutorial... but these days I'm out of time.
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janosvitok
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You are second that reports this problem. I can't reproduce the problem. Can you post your OS (win/mac/linux), OS version and QLC+ version?
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EBDS
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I can't say for sure why but I can now successfully open your work space. I uninstalled QLC+ and re-installed 4.8.5 from scratch and now it's working. Strange, but wonderful!
I will start studying what's in it this week in my spare time. I am really looking forward to learning from it. Thanks for offering it to me
Rob
I will start studying what's in it this week in my spare time. I am really looking forward to learning from it. Thanks for offering it to me
Rob