We just aqcuired the EOS at the theatre where I work and are still trying to figure out all the bells and whistles. I am trying to import my patch from Lightwright, but when I export the ASCII soft patch and try to import it into the EOS counsole, nothing happens. I've had success doing the same by exporting the file from VectorWorks, but no luck with Lightwright. Any suggestions?
We have added the standard ASCII patch and channels to Eos for the 1.4 release, due out very shortly. This should help with converting shows back to older consoles. Unfortunately, the ASCII standard v3.0 did not have a way to denote moving lights or multi-channel devices, so some of the show data can be lost. That is why we like using the manufacturer-specific data. Of course, that means that the console readin this data in has to know what to do with it, and that is a lot harder than you would think!
