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"Dumb" Color Recall From

Hi.

I am working with a rig of HES Solawash Pro 2000, HES Solaframe Theatre, and HES Solaframe Studios. 

I mostly use the Color Picker and Tint tools for Colors, so I'm reliant on "Color Recall From" when programming.

What really anoying me, is that most of the time "Color Recall From" gets the color wrong because of the whole Hue/Sat/Bright math going on in the background with the Calibrated fixtures.

I was wondering if there's a way to do a "dumb" recall from, where only the true values of the CMY flags are copied, without any HSB logic behind it, because honestly.....this often gives me a better result/starting point for colors than using Recall from.

Cyan Recall From ... Enter grabs the True values but Cyan/Magenta/Yellow recall from also applies the HSB logic.

If this is somehow macroable (so Cyan recall from enter, magenta recall from enter, yellow recall from enter all separately), I'd appreciate some syntax help.

Thanks. 

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    if you hit [Recall_From] there will be some Softkeys. Have you tryed to use {Levels Only} for example?

  • 0 in reply to mathilda

    Hi. Thanks for your response. When I saw it, I initially thought you were spot on. But "Color Recall From Only Levels seems to still apply HSB logic when I've tested it. I've gotten the best results with Recall from DMX right now since all HES Movers have similar CMY Ranges but this is very hacky and I find this workaround pretty unsatisfying. It will have to do for now though...

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  • 0 in reply to mathilda

    Hi. Thanks for your response. When I saw it, I initially thought you were spot on. But "Color Recall From Only Levels seems to still apply HSB logic when I've tested it. I've gotten the best results with Recall from DMX right now since all HES Movers have similar CMY Ranges but this is very hacky and I find this workaround pretty unsatisfying. It will have to do for now though...

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  • 0 in reply to empiire

    When you try to recall from your leading Movinglight, what format is the Color?
    Is it just plain numbers, or a Gel, or a Color Palette?

    And have tryed copy_to? doese that make any difference?

  • 0 in reply to mathilda

    In pretty much all cases, the colors are in plain values, since I use tint tools all the time to correct for differences between the different models of lights. since most of our colors are one-offs I've not yet found a good way to manage colors in palettes across different models of lights. if all Lights where already in palettes that are color-matched across the different fixtures, this wouldn't be a big issue. but they arent...

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