It will be patched as 8 segments per fixture. So instead of 1 big fixture, you have 8 little ones. Using dotted fixtures allows you to group the whole fixture as 1 number and use the . number to get individual segments.
401. enter will select the whole fixture. 401.1 will select just the first segment.
I'm sorry I am missing something. I patched 8 generic RGB+Amber fixtures. Then when I do what the manual says in the section you showed me. It just turns fixture 1 to 1.1 and 2 to 1.2, 3 to 1.4 and so on. I understand what you are talking about when breaking the light up into segments. But it is just not happening by this method.
Here's what I did to make it work: Add 8 RGBA fixtures In the fixture schedule, select them all, hit SET and type 401.0 (or whatever fixture number you want) That should assign them to 401.1 thru 401.8 You can now type 401 @ (address) and it will patch the entire fixture (all 8 segments in a row) Now to program them, if you want the ENTIRE fixture to be the same, you can do 401 enter and it will give you the entire bar. If you want to dive into segments for splitting up the fixture, you can use the select "even" or select "odd" or whatever and it breaks up the segments.
Just saves some time if you're dealing with an entire bar of segments to do 401 enter as opposed to 401 thru 408 enter to get the bar.
So what you did was break up one fixture into 8 segments. So if I wanted 8 fixtures each broken up to 8 segments I would have to patch in 64 RGBA fixtures and do what you just showed me?
