I see this kind of thought was asked in the EOS public forum and because it was not released to the public the asker was directed to the open beta forum. I don't know how to view any of those posts now that A3D is released so please forgive me for asking here.
ETC has always been more theatrical based than concert based, however of course moving in great strides to that. As you know most theatres that have any kind of lamp; table lamp, chandelier, etc. run them from the console as a channel(s). Is there any talk about making any object in A3D that would be a lamp object in reality into a channel? Like in MS pretty much any object can be selected as to what the user wants it to be.
I know A3D is not designed or intended to be a full blown show visualizer and I know we can just use a par or something in the patch library to "represent" the item however it would be pretty cool to have those objects that represent lamps to be able to be assigned a channel in patch. They would not have to have specific intensity related to the actual object, nor would they need to be anything other than white or warm. They would give a better representation of what the object would look like lit in the show and would be a good indicator they are on and live should be showing something as well.
I would guess any object like that would have to be build as a fixture in the library where they get patched to a channel, but there could be a ETC Augmented 3D folder of fixtures to pick from in patch.
This didn't hit me until today when I replayed one of the videos about Objects and Aiming when a lamp was set on the stage. Surprised I didn't think to ask back when I watched it live.
