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Collection Use
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2022 7:40 pm
by Cliff
Hi, I'm new to the forum and DMX lighting, although I've done some other types of programming. Because of this, please excuse my terminology. I have 2 types of Par can lights and a couple of moving heads. I was trying to set up a sequence(my terminology) where the background lights fade in, then the moving heads move to position, finally the moving heads and the par lights in the area fade in white. I was able to do this by creating 3 scenes and putting them in a chaser (When I get this right there will be about 25 different stage positions). I wanted to separate the types of lights and it looked to me that collections were a good way. I wanted to do this so I could copy and paste an entire type of light with a different color or intensity. When I separate them into collections and then put them into a chaser when the moving heads fade in they flicker with the same exact settings I used in the chaser with just scenes. My question is, Is there a better way to do this?
Re: Collection Use
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2022 8:22 pm
by sandinak
So I do something similar where I setup different "Scenes" for light fixtures based on a specific (Set) of attributes..
Scenes
- Colors
- T1-Pars-R ( all the pars with intensity up and only Red at 255 the rest at 0 )
- T1-Pars-B ( all the pars with intensity up and only Blue at 255 .. rest at 0 )
- Positions
- T1-Pars-90 ( all the pars with T:127
- T1-Pars-45 ( all the pars wiht T:64
so for instance I have a scene T1-Pars-R and T1-Pars-90 that I then put in a collection 01-01.01-Song Start .. And then perhaps create a second collection 01-01.02-Verse Start that has T1-Pars-B and T1-Pars-45 .. and then iterate across the the two collections in a manual (time set to infinity) chase. On queue, QLC will "Fade" both the colors and the positions into if so configured. I run the entire show this way .. and in fact I have a tool that does a pretty good job of auto-creating the "feature" scenes per Fixture Group so building the collections becomes easier. See
https://github.com/sandinak/qlcplus-tools .. I am always updating it
Re: Collection Use
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2022 6:27 pm
by Cliff
sandinak wrote: ↑Tue Dec 13, 2022 8:22 pm
So I do something similar where I setup different "Scenes" for light fixtures based on a specific (Set) of attributes..
Scenes
- Colors
- T1-Pars-R ( all the pars with intensity up and only Red at 255 the rest at 0 )
- T1-Pars-B ( all the pars with intensity up and only Blue at 255 .. rest at 0 )
- Positions
- T1-Pars-90 ( all the pars with T:127
- T1-Pars-45 ( all the pars wiht T:64
so for instance I have a scene T1-Pars-R and T1-Pars-90 that I then put in a collection 01-01.01-Song Start .. And then perhaps create a second collection 01-01.02-Verse Start that has T1-Pars-B and T1-Pars-45 .. and then iterate across the the two collections in a manual (time set to infinity) chase. On queue, QLC will "Fade" both the colors and the positions into if so configured. I run the entire show this way .. and in fact I have a tool that does a pretty good job of auto-creating the "feature" scenes per Fixture Group so building the collections becomes easier. See
https://github.com/sandinak/qlcplus-tools .. I am always updating it
Thanks, I will look at the tools you posted... I think I found the flicker problem and it had nothing to do with using Collections, that was my biggest concern. It turned out to be the cheap fixtures I was using were causing the problem. Collections looks like a great way to separate types of fixtures into groups and be able to change that group with a quick copy and paste all. Being able to do this during rehearsals helps since I don't have a lot of time.