So I'm sure this has some kind of obvious answer, but I just can't figure how to do it.
If I have four moving head lights, and I position them with white light on pointing UP and dump that to a scene, calling it "4 head white UP" and I do the same thing so they are all pointing DOWN, calling it "4 head white DOWN" and put them in a chaser, the chaser bounces between the two. If I set the duration of each step to 4 seconds, then the pattern becomes: <up 4 seconds> - <jump to down> - <down 4 seconds> - <jump to up> - etc.
What I want though, is for the heads to take 4 seconds to travel between UP and DOWN. A slow transition from the UP orientation to the DOWN orientation.
Fade in and out only seem to dim/undim the brightness.
Can someone tell me how to achieve this?
How to slow the speed of a chaser transition?
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GGGss
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You have to divide your setup. You will thank me later. Intensity and positions don't match together...
So, have your intenisty(ies) setup in its own scenes and your positions in other scenes.
Now, If you fade in with the position scenes inside a chaser, the fixture will gradually change position.
You can observe this by looking at the DMX monitor.
PS: Why you will thank me later? That is because you will need to be in control of intensity as your project grows, independent of other functions. (You might even need a Move-in-Black function, where the new position of your fixture is reached without the beam visible... once reaching this position, it may show the beam again)
So, have your intenisty(ies) setup in its own scenes and your positions in other scenes.
Now, If you fade in with the position scenes inside a chaser, the fixture will gradually change position.
You can observe this by looking at the DMX monitor.
PS: Why you will thank me later? That is because you will need to be in control of intensity as your project grows, independent of other functions. (You might even need a Move-in-Black function, where the new position of your fixture is reached without the beam visible... once reaching this position, it may show the beam again)
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agentseven
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I'll be darned. Believe it or not, this is what I've been working on while waiting for a reply. I spent the whole weekend making a VC to control the lights with a bunch of generic, positionless light-activating scenes and with X-Y pads to control movements on multiple heads at a time - all so I could quickly set up different scenes to transition through or set up chasers with.
I had not yet done any scenes that were positioned, but lightless. I had only tried making a chaser that had scenes with both lights and positions. So thank you so much for your reply - that works! Scenes that have only positions in them, the fade WILL control the speed of the transition. SWEET!
Before I got your reply, I also had actually worked out another way to do it, so I'm going to put that here for posterity. You can set up an EFX using "Line" as the pattern. If you position and size the line correctly, you can set it so your lights travel from the up position to the down, and then the hold speed is the track of the line, so it will directly control how quickly or slowly the lights pan.
This is my first experience using the forum to get an answer, I know this is a niche product so things go somewhat slowly, but it's gratifying to get help, so thanks again.
I had not yet done any scenes that were positioned, but lightless. I had only tried making a chaser that had scenes with both lights and positions. So thank you so much for your reply - that works! Scenes that have only positions in them, the fade WILL control the speed of the transition. SWEET!
Before I got your reply, I also had actually worked out another way to do it, so I'm going to put that here for posterity. You can set up an EFX using "Line" as the pattern. If you position and size the line correctly, you can set it so your lights travel from the up position to the down, and then the hold speed is the track of the line, so it will directly control how quickly or slowly the lights pan.
This is my first experience using the forum to get an answer, I know this is a niche product so things go somewhat slowly, but it's gratifying to get help, so thanks again.