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Color Pulse Absolute Effect Issues

Hello ETC Programmers,

I've been having an issue with an absolute effect that is just a simple color pulse. It is a part of my custom color effects generator, but the same problem happens even if I just call up the effect normally.

This effect should pulse the selected lights to color palette 801 then fade to color palette 800 over 2 seconds, but when I run the effect, it pulses to off (0R, 0G, 0B), then fades to color palette 800 to start, then individual lights gradually start pulsing correctly until the effect looks normal after a few minutes. This also effects the output to lights, so its not just a graphical glitch. All of the waveforms for my effect generator are copies of the same effect, just with timings changed. They all work fine.

Here is the effect:

 

Here is a video demonstrating the issue:

If anyone has any ideas thank you in advance!

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    It’s the grouping (right hand side at bottom of screenshot) that is set to spread that will mean the effect is  spread over the fixtures rather than them all starting together.

    BTW you might consider using background instead of one of you CPs as that gives you more flexibility with colour effects (only mentioning it as I missed it for ages and ended up building way more effects than I needed)

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    It’s the grouping (right hand side at bottom of screenshot) that is set to spread that will mean the effect is  spread over the fixtures rather than them all starting together.

    BTW you might consider using background instead of one of you CPs as that gives you more flexibility with colour effects (only mentioning it as I missed it for ages and ended up building way more effects than I needed)

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    Thanks for your reply. After testing, the grouping does not have any effect on the issue. The lights still flash from Color pallette 800 to 0R, 0G, 0B for the first few times.

    Also this is my secondary system for making color effects, I already have 300 effects that are a color-background effect, I made this system to be able to choose different waveforms or adjust timing & grouping on the fly but still be able to change colors without having to reinput rate/grouping adjustments. Have I also built way more effects than I need right now? Yes. Would I rather build them now, in my free time, than during a tech week with people waiting on me? Definitely.

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