capability to adjust pan and tilt depending on stage#183

Hi,
I have a big trouble with lampy that others console doesn’t have.
I program different effect at home. I don’t know the configuration of stage. Big, small, square, circle, centered or against wall.
It will be verey usefull to be able to tune the pan and tilt of moving head when I arrived on stage and my effect will use the frontiers have define.
For example, I have tilt program at home to be from 0 to 180°. I arrive on stage and I see stage agaisnt wall. A go on properties of moving head and I reduce to 90°. The sytem will calculate autoamtically the value by multiplying the real effect by my constrainct. Because today If I change my min max value on effect, it affect all my shows and on effect, I have strange behavior. Moving head wait durng several second before restarting.
Another example sometime the show if for people who are seated and something for dancing.When they are seated, people have light in the head. I want to be able to stop on stage border.
Thanks

Hi,
You could make a Preset Fx with some Position presets as min and max values (new feature in v2.0, extra tab when adding effects).
Then, you would only need to update the values in the presets when you arrive and all of your position effects should adjust accordingly (only works for absolute effects).

If you have some existing effects that you want to adjust - make sure the mode of the effects is set to ABSOLUTE and open the edit dialog (long press/double tap) for the min/max size column - you should see an extra tab appear next to the regular keypad ;)

With that, you have the option to store pan and tilt in the same preset (one for min and one for max size) - the Preset Fx tab will autogenerate effects for as many functions as it can match between the presets you selected in the tab :)

Actually Preset FX have been around in 1.04 as well, but they are a lot more accessible now ;)
Otherwise Rosen’s suggestions are pretty good.

Also, are you programming fixed positions using Presets and use these Presets in your Playbacks and executors? In this case you only need to update the preset and every cue using this preset is updated.

Just being curious:

I have a big trouble with lampy that others console doesn’t have.

What other consoles are you using?

I use chamsys MQ50 and also software on PC sunlite suite 3. You can setup the X and Y on moving head and system adapt all the FX already done by adding this constrainct. Very interesting because soemtimes moving head are setup on tilt with 180° or 90° and pan sometime 680° sometimes 560, 360 or 180.
If I use min and max on lampy, the FX is affected and the moving head wait the end of period where they are outside the wanted area.

Interesting! I did not know Chamsys has this ability. MA2 and Hog3 / Hog4 do not have this capability for sure (I’ve done quite a few shows on them, but never on Chamsys).
Its an interesting feature for the future. I’ll leave this Feature request open for sure, but this won’t be a 2.0 Feature (which is due to be released very very soon).

Ok, Yes for me it is an error if grand ma and hog doesn’t have it. It reduce a lot time for programming by adapting existing shows. on sunlite it is better because you dray a square into the square. Base square is 0 to 100% and you dray the area you want for the show. realy efficient.

another thing. I don’t understand the offset. Because usually, I take group of 4 PAR. I put effect on dimmer with PWM, then I move offset. In my head is to add offset on effect. Meaning if offset 0 then all par blink on same time, if I add offset, the blinked shift no ? If I move offset wheel I have no effect . To shift blinking, I have to use fan speed. But it is not what I want.

The offset is also more like in the ma2 or hog. If you add a simple offset, you offset the start point for all fixtures. I think what you are looking for is something like “0 thru 360”, which fans / spreads the offset.