Hi folks, this is kind of an involved question, so I'll describe the whole process I took. My question is, basically, is there an easier way to do what I just did?
I had 3 fixtures that needed to do a pan chase, so I applied a linear pan effect. Then it was requested that each fixture keep its offset position in the effect, but have a different size. I allowed myself a moment to think of how easy that would be on a GrandMA (top the effect, then resize the pan wave for each fixture as needed), and then made 3 copies of the pan effect with different sizes.
I changed each effect from Grouping Spread to Grouping 1, then changed the Trail of each one to 33, 66, and 99. In programming, this made the look I expected, but when I played the cue back, the units were no longer offset - all of them were hitting the left and right stops at the same time.
I then created 6 phantom fixtures and added 2 of them to each of the effects, and changed the grouping to spread and the trail to even. By selecting the units in the right order, I forced the "real" units into their proper places in the look, and all was well.
There has to be an easier way - please tell me what it is!
-Jason
