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Merging In Colour Palettes Without Matching By-Type Chan Doesn't Merge Data

So this may be deliberate, it may be I've never noticed before, it may not. Comments welcome. Software version 3.1.1.

Show 1 has chans 1>21 (say), which are a GLP Impression X4L (say). Chan 1 is the by type channel for colour palettes.

We're trying to merge that show data into a new show, call it Show 2. Show 2 has chans 11>21 which are GLP Impression X4L, patched as the same fixture type.

In Show 2, we merge in all the colour palettes as the same numbers, wth 'merge channels' unchecked.

After that, we have no colour information for 11>21 in Show 2.

If in Show 2 we create a channel 1, same fixture type, then do the merge again we do have colour for all of our X4Ls. 

In other words if the 'by type' channel doesn't exist then the 'by type' reference data doesn't get loaded and so none of the other channels of that type have any colour data.

Feels like the import should figure out what the values for those channels should be, even if not specifically importing the reference channel (just as if you import a cue which is all tracked values, you still get the correct state for that cue).

Thoughts?

Rob.

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  • The by type channel must be present in the same type for the console to bring the by type data over.  This is intentional.

  • in reply to saranow

    Merging does not seem to support By Type palettes. This cannot be intentional. Could you please explain how to approach the example I have given below?

    The goal is to get By type (color) palettes and their associated channels from a source show and land them on a different channel in the target show.

    I have tried a few methods, but not with any success.

    Edit: both show files share exactly the same color palette structure since they both originate from the same base file. 

    Explainer: I want to change the channel number, because in one source file I might have used fixture type A on channel 1 and made it my BT master and in the next source file I have used fixture type B on channel 1 and did the same. The goal is to bring them all into one target file (to become my base show) and store those BT channels to high channel numbers. 

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  • in reply to saranow

    Merging does not seem to support By Type palettes. This cannot be intentional. Could you please explain how to approach the example I have given below?

    The goal is to get By type (color) palettes and their associated channels from a source show and land them on a different channel in the target show.

    I have tried a few methods, but not with any success.

    Edit: both show files share exactly the same color palette structure since they both originate from the same base file. 

    Explainer: I want to change the channel number, because in one source file I might have used fixture type A on channel 1 and made it my BT master and in the next source file I have used fixture type B on channel 1 and did the same. The goal is to bring them all into one target file (to become my base show) and store those BT channels to high channel numbers. 

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