Q Light Controller+

Hello Community,

iam a new QLC+ user

i have a question regarding the best practice for my type of fixture:
Its a LED-Bar that contains 20xRGBW Pixels - each with 16bit Range..
at my first 'click-around' in the software i found that there are no 'predefined 16bit RGB(W)' Fixtures in the Generic tab. but i found the 'add RGB-Panel' button - there is a RGBW 'components' type for this - but i found no option to set this to a 16bit type.
I could just create a new Fixture - if i understand this correctly i would have to specify all my channels and then define 20'heads' so that my 20 Pixels are usable in QLC+ ?

Pleas point me into the correct direction to use this type of fixture

iam a software developer - so iam fine with scripting things and meassing around with sw things or if needed adding features (if the setup of a build env is not tooo complicated on a kubuntu 16.04. based computer)

sunny greetings
stefan

Hi Stefan,

currently you have to create full fixture manually (though you may get some speed up by creating e.g. two pixels and adding the rest by hand-editing XML).
If you want to add new RGB panel type, the code is here: https://github.com/mcallegari/qlcplus/b ... e.cpp#L710
Gui for that is https://github.com/mcallegari/qlcplus/b ... bpanel.cpp

Creating full fixture has the advantage that it has proper dimensions, wattage, and possibly other (simpler) modes etc.

Note that 16-bit channels are not fully supported yet (you can mark them as such, but fades will not use the full resolution). See viewtopic.php?f=21&t=10482

Jano

Hi Jano,

thanks for your reply.
i will create the full fixture- that should be easy enough with an editor

i have read the other topic - so if i understand this correctly currently 16Bit fading is only supported in the EFX and Virtual console XY Pads.
what is the 'block' for handling 16Bit in fading between Scenes in a chaser? (if i understand it correctly Scenes in a Chaser would be the 'theater' Cuelist aproach)

sunny greetings
stefan