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EFX on screen movement issue

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2018 8:06 am
by AbsolutNut
Hello,

I have spent some time watching the tutorials and studying the documentation so I have a reasonable handle on how QLC works I think. My objective is to control it using FL Studio, using MIDI loopback to trigger the functions.

I have a small concern with using EFX Movement. On the video tutorial #7 - Positions and EFX I see that Massimo can speed up the movement of a moving head using the speed dial. I can certainly get moving heads to slow down however the higher speed settings don't seem to reflect what I am seeing on the screen. I certainly cannot achieve anywhere near the speed of movement that Massimo gets?

Am I correct that on the "Hold" setting on the speed dial, if I set it to 2 seconds for example on a circle pattern the head on the 2D visualisation should do a complete rotation in 2 seconds? It doesn't it takes about 5 seconds. I see the same on other patterns also E.g. line. It is almost as if there is something limiting the speed of the visualisaton on screen.

Now I haven't actually connected any lights yet as I am just simply getting to grips with the software. I have also tried out several different moving heads and I am seeing the same.

Many thanks,
Steven :)

Re: EFX on screen movement issue

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2018 9:15 am
by GGGss
OS QLC+ version (and maybe hardware)

I cannot reproduce this ... mine can go upto lightning speed fast ... (not practical of course)
(don't use feed-in feed-out speed settings?)

Can you upload your project file (incl. custom fixtures?)

Re: EFX on screen movement issue

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2018 10:01 am
by AbsolutNut
Hi GGGss,

Thanks for responding.

I have attached my very simple test project. I am not using any speed fade-in or out settings.

Thanks,
Steven

Re: EFX on screen movement issue

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2018 10:58 am
by AbsolutNut
Hi,

An update. Not sure what I did but it suddenly started working as expected with the moving head cursor flying around the loop. I re-saved the project and when I re-open it is crawling again. Certainly seems to be some kind of bug.

Steven

Re: EFX on screen movement issue

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2018 11:37 am
by AbsolutNut
Hi,

Further update. I think I have managed to track down the issue. My display (laptop) is 3840 x 2160 as soon as I temporarily reduced the resolution, it worked. I have also noticed that fonts and icons are overlapping in the console which I think is also related to this issue.

By the way I am on Windows 10

On the shortcut link in "Target" for QLC is "C:\QLC+\qlcplus.exe". I understand I can add something to the end of this to correct the scaling issue? Does anybody know what it is or another work around to solve these problems?

Thanks,
Steven

Re: EFX on screen movement issue

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2018 12:05 pm
by mcallegari
You just need to read the documentation: https://www.qlcplus.org/docs/html_en_EN ... swers.html
Question #7

Re: EFX on screen movement issue

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2018 5:13 pm
by AbsolutNut
Hi Massimo,

Thanks for your reply. I have the following in the "target" field however it has made no difference:

C:\QLC+\qlcplus.exe /c "SET QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=1 && START /D ^"C:\QLC+^" qlcplus.exe"

Have I done something wrong?

Thanks,
Steven

Re: EFX on screen movement issue

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2018 5:25 pm
by AbsolutNut
Hi Massimo,

Although it did not work, I have changed the resolution the program opens in my accessing Compatibility/Change High DPI Settings/Override high DPI scaling behavior, Scaling performed by: System

It now opens in lower resolution and has solved all the problems.

Many thanks,
Steven