Patching dimmers as a Generic RGBA fixture?

If you look in Custom fixtures you'll see Red, Green, Blue and Amber 8B fixtures, patch these as 4 parts to your channel with the correct dimmer on each part.

You'll then need to add a fifth part with is the Generic RGBA fixture which doesn't need an address. By patching this fifth part you'll be able to use the colour picker and I think the virtual intensity will now work.

I think I just did this and it didn't seem to work. I have the RGBA channels all assigned, and then Part 5 is a "Generic LED RGBA 8B"...but no colour mixing.  It responds to the intensity, but doesn't respond to the colour commands.   Am I missing a step?  If I don't assign the Generic fixture I get controls for RGBA that work, but no convenient colour wheel to choose from.

EDIT:  I've fixed it.  Turns out you need to give the RGBA LED Fixture that doesn't really exist an address, so I just dumped it in the 500s of universe 4 (which I don't currently use.)

just tried it myself. only works when you assign an address to part 5 as well. just send it to universe 50 or something you don't use.

just tried it myself. only works when you assign an address to part 5 as well. just send it to universe 50 or something you don't use.

Awesome, works great now. I didn't realize that you could address into DMX universes you don't actually "have".... Thanks guys!

Sorry it didn't work the first time. In the past you didn't need to patch the RGBA fixture (if I remember correctly), this may have changed intentionally in 2.1 but it maybe a bug. I'll get the team to confirm next week.

Glad you're all sorted.

As Nick says this definitely used to work. Nick - I think this is a bug I can't see why it would have changed intentionally, and I don't like it!