Independent House Lights etc. . .

So as I see it now, the only way for me to have my houselights independant of the GM or the Blackout button is to make them a custom fixture that has the dimmers controlled by a parameter that is not intensity, and then write a submaster for them that controls that parameter (much the same way our video projector dowser is working now).

Is there any chance that we will get truly independant subs or channels in the near future?

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  • Anne,

    Sadly, Capture makes channels manual, and consequently excludes them from moving with cues. So, to use Capture in order to have channels unaffected by rem-dim/go to 0, is actually more work than using subs...

    I know that you are not keen on adding a new condition to patch, but independent channels are unspeakably beneficial and for those folk who come from legacy ETC boards they are sorely missed.

    -M

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  • Oh right, fair enough.  (Sorry Marc.... as you know, its been a long day!!)  What you are really looking for (lets lose the work independent here for a second - I realize that is what it was called in the legacy products, but that indicates something else to me), is a condition for intensity parameters where they are treated like NPs, except in their ability to be programmed either LTP or HTP.    And of course, are treated like regular intensity channels when stored to a sub.

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    [edited by: Anne Valentino at 10:10 PM (GMT -6) on Fri, Mar 12 2010]
  • Bullseye!

    You could call them Magical Fish Cake channels or anything else you want, as long as we could have that functionality.

    As I've said before, the only reason I don't make a custom fixture with the Intensity as an NIP is we need to able to quickly bring them up from the RFR.

    Thanks Anne!

    -M

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