Programming an effect

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I am wanting to program an effect into an ETC Ion console. I&rsquo;m new to programming effects, so I&rsquo;d love some help with the best way to do this one. 
 I need half the lights to be one color and another half to be another color and then they each switch. So group 1 is red while group 2 is green, and then after a second or two, group 1 is green while group 1 is red (and back and forth until the next cue). 
 Do I need to run two different effects for this or can I do it within the same effect? 
 Also, I&rsquo;d love an effect where a color can travel across the wash lights over and over. For example (using green and red again) - the wash lights are all set to green, but the effect brings a line of red over the stage over and over until the next cue. 
 Thanks!

mathilda · Answer

Just a quick add on. For the Second FX you could kick the Green out and make it Background(Bkgrd). Because your background color is already green. 
 Working with Background is more flexibel in the long run, btw ;)

jordanhenshaw · Answer

1 effect with 2 color palettes. First color palette: set the first color state for all fixtures in the effect, record the color palette, repeat with second color palette for second state, and then put those 2 color palettes in the On State of 2 steps in a step-based effect. See attached screenshot. 
 For the second effect, probably should use an absolute effect. I just tried doing it super fast but wasn't successful since you have to do it by individual RGB value. Give me a couple of months and I'll have released a module of my software that makes this extremely intuitive, simple enough a small child could understand it.

Programming an effect

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