Q Light Controller+

OK - been playng with QLC+ - great stuff. Got my laser working well and created a nice sequence with it (green laser wash above head height, expands as it descends).

I'm now going to to create a simple single colour chases with 6x LED Pars, so they flash in sequence in one colour, one by one. Strobing really, but still a chase. I'll create three of these, one for each R, G and B.

Watched some tutorial videos but they lost me a bit and I just want to cut to the chase (!). Best order of creation? IN hardware, I'd create x6 scenes. Each scene would have one of the lights on , and all the others off. Then I'd simply create a chase and drop all 6 scenes in , in order. Run the chase, and bingo, it would chase from one to the next.

In QLC+ there are scenes, colour groups, scene groups. Not sure the most efficient way to use them? Create scenes in the software like I did in hardware, then put them in a chase? Create colour groups and use them somehow?

Just a basic pointer in teh logical order for what I'm doing? I can work out the details.

For this thing, RGB matrix seems the best to me. https://docs.qlcplus.org/v4/function-ma ... rix-editor

Create one Fixture group of all pars, arrange them in a way that resembles the real setup, and apply one of the scripts.
You may want to set fade in and fade out to 0 and hold time to something short. Choose Stripes for start.

You may want to create your Fixture group with gaps, so that there is a pause between flashes:

<Real light><nothing><nothing><Real light><nothing><nothing><Real light><nothing><nothing><Real light>

In other words, for 6 pars, create the group 6x3-2 wide, and spread the pars evenly, leaving gap of two squares between them.
For example, if you set gap of 2 squares, with hold time of 200 ms:

0 ms - PAR1 starts shining
200 ms PAR1 goes off, all pars are off
400 ms all pars are still off
600 ms PAR2 starts shining
800 ms all pars are off
1200 ms PAR3 starts shining
etc.

Jano

Oh my! Thanks - the matrix tool is perfect!

tutorial video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovr3CSSbfgY

Yeah - watched parts of that.

The RGB matrix is perfect. I've created loads easily once I worked out you have to engage the master dimmer sliders for each PAR for them to work.