selecting fixtures by adress??

[LLuk]

Hy everybody

 

i had a situation with very short time to create a couple of lightstates for a show.

On univers 1 i had my own fixtures and on univers 2 i used some fixtures of the venue.

I didnt know exactly what fixtures they use in their rig. So i did just a 1:1 patch with dimmers

for the univers 2. (i used the conventionals from their rig)

 

So, to create some fast lightstates without patching the fixtures in order or sort them, i had

to search the adress of each needed fixture in the Patch overview, to find out wich fixturenumber

in my FLX it would be. It tooks me a lot of time to do this.

 

In this situation i realy missed the possiblity to select fixtures by adress. (for example the fixture with adress 254 in univers 2 at 50%: 2.254@50enter

 

i imagend how complicated it would be with more universes.

 

in my opinion it would be very usefull to have the possiblity to quick change (maybe in the Z-Menu) between «selecting fixtures by fixturenumber» and «selecting fixtures by adress»

 

and then comes an other point; in my imagination it would be much more direct and fast

to press and hold page up/page down button and enter the pagenumber via synthax, then scroll thru

all pages till page 37 for example.

 

hm...but maybe its just non-sense i talk, cause i dont have much expirience to work wich

multiple universes…

 

maybe somebody with more expirience can give some advise how i could do it less complicated i did...

 

denks

 

LLuk

[Ed75]

I would suggest you patch the dimmers on a 'logical' fixture number. for example dmx 2.1 to dmx 2.36   to fixture 101 to 136 .......or someway else that is logical to you.

That would be the way I would do it I guess.

The 'page' button idea is nice.

 

 

[Edward Z88]

Hi @LLuk

18 hours ago, LLuk said:

So, to create some fast lightstates without patching the fixtures in order or sort them, i had

to search the adress of each needed fixture in the Patch overview, to find out wich fixturenumber

in my FLX it would be. It tooks me a lot of time to do this.

 

1 hour ago, Ed75 said:

 

I would suggest you patch the dimmers on a 'logical' fixture number. for example dmx 2.1 to dmx 2.36   to fixture 101 to 136 .......or someway else that is logical to you.

 

As per @Ed75 suggestion, this is exactly what I’d do. If I had a whole universe of dimmer channels patched, I’d number these dimmers 1001 - 1512. That way I’d just put a “1” before the address. If you had another universes these could be 2001-2512 and so on. 

18 hours ago, LLuk said:

In this situation i realy missed the possiblity to select fixtures by adress. (for example the fixture with adress 254 in univers 2 at 50%: 2.254@50enter

Currently, this syntax would attempt to select cell 254 of fixture 2. 

On the Orb series of consoles, that still run ZerOS, there is DMX x @ y syntax. This is something that will come to FLX in future.

If you have any questions, please let us know. 

Edward

[LLuk]

Hi all Ed's

denks a lot for this very simple answers...

shame on me for this question...🙄

L