Idea: Fixture Editor Multi-mode Support
Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2013 7:16 pm
I've got a few fixtures that don't seem to play nice with QLC+ because the fixture editor only allows a single mode per channel. I wanted to suggest an idea for changing it to better support multiple possible modes for a channel.
For all of the fixtures in question, the mode of one channel is dependent on the value of a different channel. I find that annoying in fixtures and try to avoid it in most cases, but sometimes that's just how they come and there's nothing I can do about it, I own them, or that's what is installed at the venue.
For example - I have a color changing par. If channel 5 is between 0-49, channel 6 does nothing. If channel 5 is between 50-99, channel 6 is now a color selection, so I want to edit channel 6 in color mode so I can indicate the different colors to pick. However, as soon as channel 5 is between 100-255, channel 6 now controls a speed value indicating how quickly the light should change between all of the colors. If I want the light to go fast, I have to tell it to go "blue"... if it I want it slow, I need to pick "yellow"? This doesn't make any sense at all.
I don't see any way to work around this, it feels like a missing feature of the editor. In fixtures I have that you already have definitions for, it's just broken - I can't use the virtual console for the fixture because it doesn't work. For example - the Chauvet ColorStrip Mini - Depending on the value of channel 1, channel 2 might control red, or it might control run speed. Because it's set to speed, I can't control it from a slider on the virtual console, because it isn't an intensity. Frustrating!
For all of the fixtures in question, the mode of one channel is dependent on the value of a different channel. I find that annoying in fixtures and try to avoid it in most cases, but sometimes that's just how they come and there's nothing I can do about it, I own them, or that's what is installed at the venue.
For example - I have a color changing par. If channel 5 is between 0-49, channel 6 does nothing. If channel 5 is between 50-99, channel 6 is now a color selection, so I want to edit channel 6 in color mode so I can indicate the different colors to pick. However, as soon as channel 5 is between 100-255, channel 6 now controls a speed value indicating how quickly the light should change between all of the colors. If I want the light to go fast, I have to tell it to go "blue"... if it I want it slow, I need to pick "yellow"? This doesn't make any sense at all.
I don't see any way to work around this, it feels like a missing feature of the editor. In fixtures I have that you already have definitions for, it's just broken - I can't use the virtual console for the fixture because it doesn't work. For example - the Chauvet ColorStrip Mini - Depending on the value of channel 1, channel 2 might control red, or it might control run speed. Because it's set to speed, I can't control it from a slider on the virtual console, because it isn't an intensity. Frustrating!