updating pallettes and using home

Hi there,

I've got a question about updating focus & beam pallettes.

on tour I often update my pallettes, so I've made a quelijst just for updating purposes only. while working with that, i noticed something unexpected:

i go to the que that i want to update (build by a focus and a beam pallette)but the look is not exactly the way i want it.
so i hit home for the selected fixture and rebuild the look that i want.
then i hit update.
the update screen asks me if i want to update the pallettes that i've just edited so i hit enter.
but, it seems the console has not update the pallettes but has made the values absolute.

so when i go to the show-list, my pallettes do not refer to the look that i've made earlier...

is this expected behaviour or?...

thanks for your thoughts

Mart

PS: a work-around that i use is to go to the focus que, select the channels i need, and re-record the pallettes my show que uses.

0 Sammy over 13 years ago

Have you locked your palettes?
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0 RHye over 13 years ago in reply to Sammy

Hi,

No, because that would disable the update function in the que (live).
I think, the problem is the home button, that is the one that seems to make my values absolute, so when i update the que, i do not update the pallette...

thanks

Mart
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0 hydrogen over 13 years ago in reply to RHye

Hi,

I think this is Working as Intended(tm). Homing a fixture removes it's reference to palettes. This becomes logical when you consider that home can reference a preset, and then what should update.. update?

The two workarounds I can think of are either updating the focus without first homing it (which is the more common approach, I think) or you can update focus palette <n> and that wil keep the references.
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0 jbenghiat over 13 years ago in reply to hydrogen

I believe update {last ref} is designed to do what you want and remember the last reference given to a channel. You may want to give it a try.

-Josh
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0 RHye over 13 years ago in reply to jbenghiat

Hi everyone,

Thanks for your replies.
The reason why i started this thread is because of my curiosity on the behaviour of [Home] while updating.

Another workaround that seems to work is to build an -open- pallette for beam&focus, make that pallette absolute and use the pallette as an alternative home.

thanks alot

Mart
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