What Happened To The Colour Swatches ?

[DALX]

I was making up a colour palette for a show and was wondering why some colour swatches appear for some Mood Board colours, but not others ?

[kgallen]

So you re-recorded some of the mood board palettes into the main colour palettes?

But when you did you only had some fixtures selected?

And now you have different fixtures selected and 26C wasn’t recorded for those fixtures?

Palettes are only blue if they can apply to the currently selected fixtures. 

[DALX]

The non availability of a colour swatch is something that I was not aware of until I last night. How do you make a colour palette available to all fixtures , is there a global apply to all or do I select one of each fixture type when building up my colour swatches?

My question is why does the swatch colour appear on 21C L601 Silver but not 22C L332 Special Rose Pink or 22C, 23C, 24C, 25C. I tried shortening the colour name to one line but that did not make the colour swatch appear.

[kgallen]

At the moment ‘colour morphing’ is not possible on ZerOS, so yes your only way to have a palette available is to ensure one of each type of fixture is selected (and dialled in with the colour etc) when recording the palette.

I don’t know about why the name doesn’t show. 

Hopefully Edward can clarify soon. 

[Edward Z88]

10 hours ago, DALX said:

My question is why does the swatch colour appear on 21C L601 Silver but not 22C L332 Special Rose Pink or 22C, 23C, 24C, 25C. I tried shortening the colour name to one line but that did not make the colour swatch appear.

If no colour splash is shown on the colour palette tile, this suggests that not all of the fixtures recorded in that palette are exactly the same colour. For example, let's say you raise channel fader 1, change the fixture's colour, but then decide you don't want that fixture so lower its fader and then raise channel fader 2. If you then change fixture 2's colour, and record a colour palette, a colour splash won't show, because you will have also included fixture 1 in a different colour in the palette. In this example, CLEAR should have been pressed, prior to mixing fixture 2's colour.

The colour splash will reappear if all fixtures in that colour palette are updated to be the same colour.

When you record a palette, by default ZerOS doesn't care what fixtures are on, or which fixtures are selected. ZerOS just cares about the fixtures you have adjusted.

[DALX]

Thanks kgallen and Edward, time to work on my colour palettes again !