Q Light Controller+

Greetings, and thank you in advance for your time and responses!

Here is my use case:

• 4-8 RGB PAR's lined up at back of stage.
  • 7 Channel Mode = RGB + Color Macro + Strobe + Program + Dimmer
  • Color Macro and Program channels take precedence over RGB if they are non-zero.
• Simple low light level color-change/glow sequence/chase looping in the background.
  • Currently two separate items:
  • One to control the colors (RGB channels only)
  • Second to control the glow/intensity effect (Dimmer channels only)
• Several high intensity one-shot sequence/chase events manually triggered to accent the music.
  • Currently only Dimmer channels.
  • Manual All 100% Momentary Flash (All fixtures to 100% white button is held)
  • Single-Shot Wave (Left-to-Right, Right-to-Left, Center-to-Edge, Edge-to-Center)
  • Random 100% Momentary Flash (individual fixtures flash randomly while button is held)
  • etc.

I currently have this all working, but my one-shot events only take the existing color and modify the master dimmer value for the fixture. What I'd like to do is be able to assign colors to the one-shot events while the show is running. For example:

• Running a slow Blue/Green low level glow in the background.
• Momentary 100% White Flash.
• One-shot waves would be all Red for verses, Yellow for chorus.

I know I can do this by making duplicate sequences/chases for these events, but I'd rather keep my one-shot sequences free of colors so I don't have to edit 50 sequences just to adjust timing. What I want to be able to do it have the sequence automatically pick up color settings (different than the current fixture color) from controls while the show is running. That way, I can quickly change the color of the sequence without having to set up different version of it for each color. Is this possible in the current version (4.8.5), or would it have to be a feature request?

Hi,

Have you had a look at RGB Matrices ?

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

http://qlcplus.org/docs/rgbmatrixeditor.html


And for dynamically change the color of an RGB matrix, the Virtual Console Animation Widget:

http://qlcplus.org/docs/vcmatrix.html



I think these should cover you use case.

Thanks! That is very close to what I want. The VC Animation Widget does what I'm looking for, and I could create my own custom RGB Scripts to fine-tune the pattern behaviors.

It is still lacking one thing - the ability to completely overwrite the background color with the momentary accent. Like in my example, I want to have the PARs slowly cycling between Blue/Green constantly. But I want to throw in momentary accent waves where only one or two of the PARs go to full Red in sequence while the rest continue the Blue/Green cycle. I've tried both the HTP and LTP settings on the RGB PAR fader settings, and neither behaves like what I want. HTP just does additive coloring, so my wave ends up somewhere between Magenta and Yellow. LTP doesn't work at all. The wave either picks up the same color as the background cycle, or all of the color channels freak out and rapidly bounce between the wave pattern and background pattern.

IS there any way to get my momentary wave to be superimposed over the background cycle without the colors blending together?