Q Light Controller+

I am having a problem creating a sequence. I couldn't find a section in the documentation on doing it, so I found a YouTube video. but what is shown does not work for me. The video shows the user clicking on the Scene so it is selected, then clicking on the Sequence ooo icon. The Sequence then gets created IN/under the Scene, which make sense to me.

But when I try that the Sequence gets created at the Scene/Chaser level, not IN/under the Scene I selected, and I don't see a way to assign the Scene to the Sequence. I do see that the new Sequence asks for a Scene name, and says New Scene, so I assume I could create a Scene here, but I already have the Scenes created.

I went thru all the other 7 YouTube tutorials, which were very good by the way, but still didn't see how to create a sequence. What am I doing wrong ? I am using Q Light Controller Plus 4.12.1.
Thanks
Jack

Maybe this gives you a clue why you can't choose a scene
https://www.qlcplus.org/docs/html_en_EN ... nager.html

I had read that section, but I didn't see how to actually create a Sequence. The documentation talks about Chasers and Sequences being similar, but different. And the section on Chasers is pretty good, got that to work fine. It is just the Sequences I can't figure out. I understand how you would use it, I just can't get it created. Is there some prerequisite I am missing ?

Actually, if someone could just send me the steps, like:

Create a Scene, any scene
Click on it so it is Selected
Click on the Sequence icon
OKAY, what should happen here ?

The video I watched created the Sequence as a child of the Scene, but that is not what I see when I do it. The Sequence gets created at the top level, under Sequences.

Okay, I just created my first new Show (told you I was a newbie) and when I add a "Scene" it actually shows up as a "Sequence". So is it that you no longer "create" a Sequence, they get created when you start building a Show ? If that is true that is not clear at all in the documentation, or in the tutorial video I found. And now I understand why you pointed me back to the Show help section. And if it is let me know and I'll mark this Solved.
Thanks
Jack

I'm using sequences in my current project for the first time, not in a Show but in Virtual Console, as I'm working with RGB Matrices on several (~40) 1m light tubes of RGB strip light.

Once you get your head around it's really not that complicated.


To create a sequence from scratch you do the same as for any other function:

In Function manager, click the New Sequence icon (ooo)
The editor now shows a chaser-editor-like list on top, and something like a scene editor
You add a bunch of fixtures to the scene editor, these are the pool of lights your sequence consists of.
Then you add a step in the upper list editor.
You select that step and can edit intensities for the contained fixtures.
Repeat creating or editing steps as needed.

You can also create a fixture group in Fixture manager, compose a RGB Matrix for this fixture group and once the effect looks well, automatically convert that into a sequence with chosen timings and all.

Puh, it does not work out for me, too. I can create a sequence, but not on top of an existing scene. It seems always to create a new (hidden) scene.
And, when I edit some steps, and then afterwards click through the steps I already have created , the faders don't restore the saved values of the individual steps, so I am not able to adjust the values later.

Weird feature.