Please help problem using EFX for scenes

[Rob McDonald]

I can get to the little Moving head icon EFX, I can get my moving head to do everything in movement, all patterns, circle, figure eight etc BUT i just can not work out how to get light out with the movement, what am i doing wrong, any help much appreciated. Thanks, Rob

[janosvitok]

What do you mean by "light out with the movement"?

[siegmund]

I think he means something like "move in black" so the lights stay off during movement.
Due to the fact I do not often work with moving heads, I'm not able to provide further help.

[Krsound]

Use virtual console add a button with shutter open and your colors and add your saved effects and that will do it

[Rob McDonald]

Sorry I think I worded the problem badly. What I meant is while I can get a fixture to automatically move, like a chase, I can not seem to be able to connect a scene, a button or anything to control the light output, prism, gobo etc. So it dances in different directions with me not being able to make it output anything. What am I missing here? Thanks so much for any help.
Rob

[janosvitok]

Please attach your qxw file and any qfx files you have created (i.e. all filee needed to open the qxw file).

[DiskoBizkit22]

There are a couple ways you can achieve this:

What I like to do is make a collection of the EFX, color scene, gobo scene, whatever and just add that to a button in VC to make everything happen in one button press.

You could also add a button in VC for the EFX, add a button for the color, and add a button for the shutter 'open' and a slider for the dimmer, but that is just alot more work and makes the process slower live. Thats why I just set up everything in one collection and add a dimmer slider and its fast and easy to do.