A friend of mine got a "DTS XR-Laser Green" fixture and I'm using fixture definition to program into a show. the problem is that the channel 13 "Effect Control" changes it entirely depending on what DMX value is on the channel 12. I understand that I need "Aliases" to make this work, but I cant figure out how to do it.
When the channel 12 has a value from 16 to 31 the channel 13 has this functions: 000-127: clockwise rotation
128: Stop
129-255: counter clockwise rotation
When the channel 12 has a value from 32 to 97 the channel 13 has this functions: 000-015: Stop
016-255: Speed Slow to Fast
[moderator] please read the "community" section description before posting. It's definitely the wrong place to post a support request. Moved this post to the proper area.
In the fixture editor, create all the channels described in the manual, for both modes of the unit, leave out ch 13 of 18ch mode;
(if a channel is identical in both modes, you have to create it only once)
(you can omit 11 ch mode if you don't want to implement or ever use it, but if you intend to share your definition here to be included for distribution, we require it to be complete)
then additionally, create three separate channels for the two cases described above, one of preset "Nothing" with name "No Function" or similar, and the others, of preset "Speed", with the respective ranges and descriptions from the manual (I'd call them differently so I can distinguish them, e.g. Rotation Speed" and "Effect Speed");
Create both modes (11 and 18 ch) on the Mode Tab, adding your "No Function" channel as channel 13 in 18ch mode;
On Aliases tab, add 2 entries, formulating the condition from above:
in 18ch mode, if ch 12 is in the range 16 - 31, replace ch "No Function" by "Rotation Speed"
in 18ch mode, if ch 12 is in the range 32 - 97, replace ch "No Function" by "Effect Speed"
That should basically be all that needs to be done.
