wheelsets, and customisation

Here's one that's been bothering me from time to time..

When dealing with mediaservers i always make my own wheelsets(or atleast most of the time) , and reordering them is ok within it's "kind"(H2 library term.)

-But sometimes i wan't to do even more customisation. as an example sometimes i wan't to have pos x/y/z,scale x/y in the position kind, and not under beam..or keystone for that mather.. sometimes becouse of programming needs, but sometimes just to get rid of some pages/rows under the beam category.. So if you try to do that in the wheelset editor, you get the parameters in the new kind, but they don't disapear from the old kind.. I guess this is becouse the desk is to "smart" and want's to show me all parameters under it's proper kind(the ones that are in the library) maybe for my own protection.. One could argue that moving parameters to a new kind could be confusing, say if a new operator takes over the desk, and don't know about it.. but on the other hand,I did the changes with intent so maybe it should obey? anyone have something to add to the discussion?

-I know that atm, the parameters you change don't change kind. only comes up another time in the wheelsets.. I see a coupple of ways this could be implemented..:

-you could make the wheelset change the kind also. would meake it easy and fast to customize things. but can be a bit dangerous when you think of that it can be imported exported..

-You can make a kind selection available in the edit fixtures menu. a little more job to customize things, as you would need to do it both in the edit meny, and in the wheelset editor. but probably the "safest" and best imlementation??

-You could make the fixture builder work with every parameter, so that we could "copy from" a library, and actually get a result that works;). and then we can customize things there..

-We can get Steve to make "personal librarys" upon request, hehe.. probably the easiest way to implement for you guys in texas, as Steve would get all the work..

-You can release the tool Steve uses to make our librarys.. one downside might be that Steve would need a new job..


anyways, i'd love this to be possible somehow!
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  • I've been thinking would it be a good idea, just to have a another wheelset above the basic one which is connected to IPCB. This may be a bad idea cause I think we run out of space...
    But, the custom wheelset could be totally custom. It can have any parameter, but they are masked like they should be. The wheelset is activated by pressing it on screen and when you use masking, parameters are greyed if they don't belong to mask...there could be a little info about parameter group they belong.
    Does this make any sense?
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  • I've been thinking would it be a good idea, just to have a another wheelset above the basic one which is connected to IPCB. This may be a bad idea cause I think we run out of space...
    But, the custom wheelset could be totally custom. It can have any parameter, but they are masked like they should be. The wheelset is activated by pressing it on screen and when you use masking, parameters are greyed if they don't belong to mask...there could be a little info about parameter group they belong.
    Does this make any sense?
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