Generic Fixture Behaviour in 2D view
Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2014 11:21 am
Firstly I would like thank Massimo and the contributors for putting together a fantastic lighting control package.
I have 2 suggestions, however there may already be a way do this that I couldn't see in the documentation - and if there is, I apologise.
A lot of theatres I have been involved at still use primarily generic fixtures, and the bars aren't necessarily wired up incrementally.
I quite like adding the dimmer pack as a multihead fixture (e.g. adding a dimmer with 40 channels) as it groups the channels into a single tab on the function editor - otherwise I end up with 40 tabs each with a single slider in (which is a bit annoying).
Adding the dimmer with 40 channels does however mean that in the 2D view I end up getting a multi-head fixture that is a single line of 40 fixtures.
I think in the 2D view it should ideally treat each channel in a generic dimmer fixture as a separate single head fixture to give ultimate flexibility in laying out in the 2d view. This is also helpful for when you have a mixture of generic and intelligent fixtures on a single lighting truss, and want the 2d view to match what you have physically.
Secondly, in the same scenario due to the lack of dimmer channels, we quite often have 2 generic fixtures that share the same DMX address, and I wonder whether it would be handy to be able to add a fixture multiple times to the 2D view (although its quite nice that it currently indicates that you have already added a fixture to the 2d view)
Anyway, I'm sorry this has become quite wordy, and hopefully can be followed ok. I look forward to seeing other people's thoughts on this.
I have 2 suggestions, however there may already be a way do this that I couldn't see in the documentation - and if there is, I apologise.
A lot of theatres I have been involved at still use primarily generic fixtures, and the bars aren't necessarily wired up incrementally.
I quite like adding the dimmer pack as a multihead fixture (e.g. adding a dimmer with 40 channels) as it groups the channels into a single tab on the function editor - otherwise I end up with 40 tabs each with a single slider in (which is a bit annoying).
Adding the dimmer with 40 channels does however mean that in the 2D view I end up getting a multi-head fixture that is a single line of 40 fixtures.
I think in the 2D view it should ideally treat each channel in a generic dimmer fixture as a separate single head fixture to give ultimate flexibility in laying out in the 2d view. This is also helpful for when you have a mixture of generic and intelligent fixtures on a single lighting truss, and want the 2d view to match what you have physically.
Secondly, in the same scenario due to the lack of dimmer channels, we quite often have 2 generic fixtures that share the same DMX address, and I wonder whether it would be handy to be able to add a fixture multiple times to the 2D view (although its quite nice that it currently indicates that you have already added a fixture to the 2d view)
Anyway, I'm sorry this has become quite wordy, and hopefully can be followed ok. I look forward to seeing other people's thoughts on this.