Scripting wait commands not accurate
Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2017 3:35 pm
I am having some trouble with the wait command in the scripting. It would appear to be inaccurate and then will vary in length. I spent about 7 hours day before last scripting out a sequence with some challenging lighting commands that must hit at a certain point in a song. I got it done. The next day, I come back in, all of the scripting is identical, run the script, and the timings are now different (some slower, some faster.) I ran this script that night before at least a dozen times and every lighting cue hit at the exact right time, next day (only difference was that I had shut down the computer and turned it back on between rehearsals) timings are needing to be tweaked, and things are not hitting the same.
The script is:
However according to my counter that is displaying on the VC, the first command, while it has a wait of 8 seconds, does not hit until about 14 seconds. The wait command "wait:1m19s500ms;" is actual closer to a 2 minute wait in the song.
I am running this with the latest version 4.11.0 on a MacMini 2014 with 16GB RAM. 2 universes of lighting with Enttec OpenDMX , 1 universe of loopbacks (where my counter is doing its thing). This is quite a bit frustrating, as I had pushed a lot of things to scripting because of the flexibility, but then had to push it all back out of scripting (except for basic items) due to the wait commands not holding the same time.
The script is:
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startfunction:17 // Counter StartStop;
wait:10ms;
startfunction:60 // Counter Reset;
startfunction:5 // Masquerade final edit2.mp3;
wait:8s;
startfunction:23 // Andre and Firmin;
wait:14s250ms;
startfunction:26 // Masquerade (Add Stage);
wait:1s750ms;
startfunction:22 // Masquerade (Full);
stopfunction:23 // Andre and Firmin;
stopfunction:26 // Masquerade (Add Stage);
wait:5s;
startfunction:63 // Masquerade - Party, Preset;
wait:1m19s500ms;
startfunction:50 // Masquerade Low Intensity;
startfunction:65 // Masquerade - Party, Active;
stopfunction:22 // Masquerade (Full);
wait:5s;
startfunction:22 // Masquerade (Full);
stopfunction:50 // Masquerade Low Intensity;
startfunction:74 // Masquerade - Movers Off;
wait:20ms;
startfunction:64 // Masquerade - Lines, Preset;
stopfunction:74 // Masquerade - Movers Off;
wait:500ms;
startfunction:66 // Masquerade - Lines, Active;
wait:6s;
startfunction:74 // Masquerade - Movers Off;
stopfunction:66 // Masquerade - Lines - Active;
wait:20ms;
stopfunction:74 // Masquerade - Movers Off;
wait:21s500ms;
startfunction:51 // Masquerade (Red Phantom);
startfunction:52 // Movers Reset;
wait:5s;
startfunction:58 // Slow 2 Black;
wait:2s;
stopfunction:52 // Mover's Reset
stopfunction:58 // Slow 2 Black;
stopfunction:51 // Masquerade (Red Phantom);
stopfunction:22 // Masquerade (Full);
startfunction:17 // Counter StartStop;
wait:10ms;
startfunction:60 // Counter Reset;I am running this with the latest version 4.11.0 on a MacMini 2014 with 16GB RAM. 2 universes of lighting with Enttec OpenDMX , 1 universe of loopbacks (where my counter is doing its thing). This is quite a bit frustrating, as I had pushed a lot of things to scripting because of the flexibility, but then had to push it all back out of scripting (except for basic items) due to the wait commands not holding the same time.