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  2. Small Future Feature Suggestion

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    Hi, 

    After programming on the FLX today I realised that it would be pretty handy to be able to colour code my palettes instead of simply all the available ones being the same blue colour. 

    I just feel like being able to define groups of effect palettes or positions by a colour coding system may help speed up workflow and desk usability when programming or 'busking'.

    Not sure whether this has been suggested before or whether anyone else would find this useful but figured it would be worth a suggestion. 

    Cheers

    Joe

  6. ZerOS 7.9.7.28 (RELEASE CANDIDATE) and ZerOS Monitor (Windows) 1.9.2 (RELEASE CANDIDATE)

    in General Discussion

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    1 hour ago, Edward- Z88 said:

    Hi Joe,

    Thanks for the further information. I have been able to recreate the issue.

    There is an issue in some scenarios where the effect parameters for intensity effects are not getting recorded into cues, for multi-parameter fixtures. I have logged this on our software tracking system as ZOS-10476. Currently no release date yet, but we may do a minor release to fix this, and also include an update to ZerOS Library.

    If you have any questions please let me know.

    Edward

    Brilliant, slightly relieved it is a bug and not just myself doing something stupid.

    Thanks for your help.

    I look forward to the update.

    Joe

  7. ZerOS 7.9.7.28 (RELEASE CANDIDATE) and ZerOS Monitor (Windows) 1.9.2 (RELEASE CANDIDATE)

    in General Discussion

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    15 hours ago, Edward- Z88 said:

    Hi Joe,

    Great, thanks very much for attaching your show file. I will take a look at this tomorrow and investigate what may be going on.

    Edward

    Cheers, 

    This morning I've cheked the desk and the issue still occurs with newly made intensity effects however the one that I left yesterday that wasnt working now works.

    It appears that either changing something in it's settings or rebooting the desk kickstarts the playback into playing the effect properly. I factory reset yesterday to attempt to flush out any settings that may cause this but with no success.

    Thanks

     

     

  8. ZerOS 7.9.7.28 (RELEASE CANDIDATE) and ZerOS Monitor (Windows) 1.9.2 (RELEASE CANDIDATE)

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Edward- Z88 said:

    Hi Joe,

    "Don't Move Effect" will be chosen by default. This is to ensure that if a fixture goes dark, it does not start running an effect that is coming up the next time the fixture is used. This is to avoid your fixtures unnecessarily moving in the rig.

    I am a little unsure of what your initial issue may have been. I have been unable to recreate the issue you have described, however, glad to hear you have solved it!

    Edward

    Hi Edward,

    That was my understanding of M.O.Dark settings. So after testing it appears I was prematurely celebrating, I have now come to the conclusion that the desk is only correctly playing back a playback containing an effect once I change something in that playbacks settings. I've tested with a couple of settings and once I click okay on the playback settings window it starts to operate as normal.

    I have attached the showfile I am experimenting on, Playback one is currently outputting the effect properly as I have altered a value in its playback settings whereas playback 2 hangs on the 50% intensity value as I am yet to change anything in the settings option.

    Just to be clear I have done a fresh software install and also this showfile is new, not one produced on a previous software version.

    Thanks

    Joe

     

    FxTest.zos

  9. ZerOS 7.9.7.28 (RELEASE CANDIDATE) and ZerOS Monitor (Windows) 1.9.2 (RELEASE CANDIDATE)

    in General Discussion

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    41 minutes ago, Edward- Z88 said:

    Hi Joe,

    OK thanks for the information.

    Yes please update to ZerOS 7.9.8, and if you are still having difficulties, please email me a copy of the show file that is showing the issue, and I'll take a look.

    Edward

     

    41 minutes ago, Edward- Z88 said:

    Hi Joe,

    OK thanks for the information.

    Yes please update to ZerOS 7.9.8, and if you are still having difficulties, please email me a copy of the show file that is showing the issue, and I'll take a look.

    Edward

    Hi Edward,

    After updating I was still experiencing the same issue, I have however managed to resolve it. It appears that the default setting under Move on Dark had Don't Move Effect selected. 
    Once this was deselected on my playback the effect started working as expected. 
    I have not set this and it was already selected in the defaults for Move on Dark. I have therefore deselected it in my defaults. 

    I hope this is useful to anyone who comes across a similar occurance in the future. 

    Thanks 

    Joe

  10. ZerOS 7.9.7.28 (RELEASE CANDIDATE) and ZerOS Monitor (Windows) 1.9.2 (RELEASE CANDIDATE)

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    On 10/8/2020 at 3:46 PM, Edward- Z88 said:

    Hi Joe,

    So to confirm, cue 1 has your fixtures at full. Then select the fixtures, and apply Chaser 1/2. As part of this effect, the fixtures are automatically taken to 50%. You then record this as cue 2.

    On playing this back, when going into cue 2 from cue 1, your fixtures will fade down, with the intensity chase fading up. You should then end up with chasing intensity percentages displayed in green in the Output Window.

    Are you finding in cue 2 your fixture intensities stay at 50%, displayed in green in the Output window? If so it sounds as though the Size of the effect is recorded at 0?

    Edward

    Hi Edward, 

    Correct, they fade down to 50% and are displayed as green,

    I definitely have the size at 100, 

    I shall update to 7.9.8 today and report back if this is still happening. 

    Like I say, i've used the desk for a good few years now and haven't had this trouble prior to this beta version so hopefully its just a glitch somewhere.

    Thanks for your continued support.

    Joe

  11. ZerOS 7.9.7.28 (RELEASE CANDIDATE) and ZerOS Monitor (Windows) 1.9.2 (RELEASE CANDIDATE)

    in General Discussion

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    Okay no worries, I was unaware of that function and it is now responding correctly to the dmx lamp off from the desk.

    Another thing that I'm probably just missing is in regards to recording effects on this beta release without smart tag enabled, as this is my preferred method of programming.

    However when saving an effect such as chase 1/2 in cue 2 where cue 1 is simply bringing the intensity up to 100 the effect seems to be being registered and the intensities of my Rogue R1's drop to 50 when calling cue 2. The fixture also shows the chaser 1/2 effect in the intensity section of the cue window, however there is no movement of intensity values or visible effect. I'm finding this is similar with effects I build in the waveform window. the only effects that seem to respond normally are position based ones.

    I'm probably just missing something that may have been changed slightly however it's bugging me.

    Thanks in advance for the help.

    Cheers,

     

  13. ZerOS 7.9.7.28 (RELEASE CANDIDATE) and ZerOS Monitor (Windows) 1.9.2 (RELEASE CANDIDATE)

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Hi guys, 

    When I create auto macros for my Mac 250 Entours I used to always get a Lamp on and a Lamp off macro auto produced. 

    Currently I am experiencing the following issues:

    • No Lamp off in shutter options when the Mac's are selected - I cannot lamp them off other than manually on the fixture.
    • Lots of auto created macros however no Lamp on macro
    • No response when selecting Lamp off in the macro menu

    Fortunately I tested this with a Mac that was situated on the floor and not in my rig so I could manually lamp the fixture off easily enough. 

    Cheers

    Joe

  19. Renumbering Query

    in FLX

    Posted

    Hi all,

    Just happened to notice something I thought I would question when demonstrating how to renumber a cue stack to my colleague.

    We had a simple cue stack created and I had demonstrated how to set instructions for cues to jump to specific 'next cues' should he ever have a need to jump around the stack. 

    He then asked me about recording cues in between stack numbers so I showed him which led us onto the renumber function. 

    Upon renumbering the cue stack I noticed that the 'next cue' instructions hadn't updated and would require manually changing. I would have thought that the system would have updated normally to keep the next cue links correct however they failed to update. It seems a bit awkward if you have to go through all of your cue stack checking these numbers each time you renumber. 

    If this is how they have been designed to work then I guess I will have to remember that for future programming however I thought it may be worth looking at for future additions.

    Cheers

    Joe

  20. Position's Feature

    in FLX

    Posted

    On 11/13/2017 at 9:59 AM, JWylie91 said:

    Hi,

    Before we bought our FLX we were told by one of the reps who came and demo'd it for us that there were plans to implement a feature where you could import a plot of your stage space and then use that for selecting your positions for moving fixtures instead of using the sometimes tricky XY Position grid. 

    I was just wondering whether this is still something that is planned for development. As the desk is used as our house desk it would be a great feature to allow us to quickly plot positions especially for moving all movers to one specific point on stage.

    Thanks

    Just wondering whether there is an update to the feature discussed a while back in this thread? It is still a feature that I feel we would greatly benefit. 

    Many thanks

    Joe

  24. ZerOS 7.9.5 Queries/Oddities

    in FLX

    Posted

    Hi Edward,

    Downloading and loading in the new library file that you provided did the trick. I have also managed to load my previous default showfile created in 7.9.4 and the effects appeared when the auto create button was selected.

    Many Thanks

    Joe

  25. ZerOS 7.9.5 Queries/Oddities

    in FLX

    Posted

    Tried multiple installs now of 7.9.5 and no luck getting the effects to work, 

    Just loaded my old file that still has effects palettes and none of them do anything. I have also looked at making a new effect in the waveforms option and there are no function options to allow me to assign any movements such as Sine etc. 

    I have no choice but to reinstall 7.9.4 and hope for an update on the issue soon...

     

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