HTP for non-intensity parameters

Is there any thought to be able to choose if a non-intensity parameter can be HTP? The example I am using is putting scrollers on submasters. One frame per sub. This allows for easy access when busking. As it stands now the only way to make this work is to make the scrollers dimmers and patch them as seperate channels losing the advantage of being able to calibrate the scrolls. I was hoping this could be a patch level adjustment that you could apply as an attribute of the scroller itself. I could also see this handy for movers putting the CMY flags on HTP if wanted. If there is an existing workaround please let me know.

Cheers,

Andrew Tudge
Arden Theatre

  • Although not exactly what you are looking for...

    One option is to make a new cue list with just your scrollers and fixtures.  Make each cue in the list a different color frame (or split frames if you want that option).  Then load the cue list onto a fader.  Double hit cue and change that cue list so the fader is intensity and not proportional.  Now you have a fader that controls the intensity of that groups of subs and tapping the bump button (now GO) will progress forward through the colors, and the upper button (now Stop/Back) will move backwards through the colors.

    You could make one cue list that is all of your fixtures, another 2 that are odds and evens or whatever you need for the show?

    Just an option.

    -The issue, as far as I understand it, with making non-intensity parameters HTP is that short of looking at the raw dmx output of that parameter how do you determine what is higher than something else.  Ex: Is green higher than blue on the color picker?  Some people put the clear frame on a scroller in the middle so they can go from clear to any color in half the time.  Any color frames before clear would be considered "lower" and therefore HTP wouldn't recognize them.

    Again, just my thoughts...welcome any comments or corrections!!

    Seth

  • Well, this may be a ridiculous question.... but why do you think HTP would be a good thing in this instance.  If you've set you subs up with 1 frame (the destination) per sub, if these parameters were HTP, you'd potentially have to remove one submaster to allow another sub to win.

    So, subs 1 through 10 set to frames 1 through 10.  Sub 10 is currently active.  if you want to go to frame one, right now, all you have to do is fade in sub 1.  In an HTP model, you'd have to remove sub 10 first.

    Could it be that what you are actually looking for is that when an LTP sub is faded to zero, rather than setting to zero, it returns control to the last value?  Because that is being added in 2.0.  :-)

    ??

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    [edited by: Anne Valentino at 10:49 AM (GMT -6) on Tue, Oct 26 2010]
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