Selecting colors in QLC+ 4.x
Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2019 10:58 pm
In QLC+ 4.x, there is a really beautiful color-selector in the virtual console, if you use RGB-lighting with the click&go-technology: You can choose plain RGB colors and 50 to 50 mixes, really fast and comfy. Using RGB-matrix/RGB-scripts in the function manager is much more difficult: There are 36 unchangeable preset-colors and none of them seem to be plain RGB. If you want plain RGB, you have to choose one of the eight custom presets and edit it. (If you do, your custom made color occupies 2 memory cells - which means you just have 4 custom presets, effectively. But I don't think, that's intended…) You get to a powerful, drawing-application-like color chooser (with a pipette!) - but for reaching plain RGB it's not straight forward - even if you can handle tools like GIMP…
The pro of this chooser is its possibility to copy and paste: If you finally got the color you want you can use it in other scripts (and therefore devices), as well. A downside is the lack of control of the real output: Even new lighting devices don't really match to the colors you see on your monitor. But in RGB-scripts, you have to choose BEFORE you can check the real output.
Click&Go is much better, in this discipline, because you can actually watch your lights while choosing the color. But if you want to copy/paste one color to another light (which is probably a very similar device and fortunately behaves the same like the device you've chosen your color with), you're lost.
I don't know why there are two different tools for choosing colors, but I wonder if there are plans to merge these tools into one. Or - I don't know - maybe there are good reasons for having both and keeping them. What's your opinion about it?
The pro of this chooser is its possibility to copy and paste: If you finally got the color you want you can use it in other scripts (and therefore devices), as well. A downside is the lack of control of the real output: Even new lighting devices don't really match to the colors you see on your monitor. But in RGB-scripts, you have to choose BEFORE you can check the real output.
Click&Go is much better, in this discipline, because you can actually watch your lights while choosing the color. But if you want to copy/paste one color to another light (which is probably a very similar device and fortunately behaves the same like the device you've chosen your color with), you're lost.
I don't know why there are two different tools for choosing colors, but I wonder if there are plans to merge these tools into one. Or - I don't know - maybe there are good reasons for having both and keeping them. What's your opinion about it?