As a good programmer should, I keep a "Blank" show that has all my paletes laid out how I like them with as many different types of fixtures as I have come across written into them. With my understanding of the WH III platform, if I "Remove" these fixtures from the show when I make an archive of this show to use as my "start" show, I will lose all data assocaited with those fixtures from my palettes. Is there any way to avoid this? My current workaround is to keep one of every fixture type in the show, not necessarily patched. Thanks!
How's things? Did I see in another thread that you were over in China? All of my Minnesota gossip sources have been pretty weak lately, so feel free to pass on any interesting news you may have.
Jason is correct that Global or Per-Type palettes will apply to fixtures that are added to a show after the palette has been created. This assumes (of course) that the per-type palette has the fixture type in question and that the fixture supports at least some of the parameters in the palette.
If you record per-fixture palettes, they will only be valid for the fixtures that they were created with or that have been added to the palette. Also remember that position palettes are created as per-fixture by default.
It might be worth thinking about why you feel that you need a start show. This was a habit of mine with the Wholehog 2, but the only start show I travel with these days is for my media server palettes. I generally find with a Wholehog 3 that configuring my start show for a moving light rig takes as much time as starting from a fresh show and working as I go. I'm much less dependent on palettes because fixture control on the Wholehog 3 is much faster and more intuitive than it was with the 2.
How's things? Did I see in another thread that you were over in China? All of my Minnesota gossip sources have been pretty weak lately, so feel free to pass on any interesting news you may have.
Jason is correct that Global or Per-Type palettes will apply to fixtures that are added to a show after the palette has been created. This assumes (of course) that the per-type palette has the fixture type in question and that the fixture supports at least some of the parameters in the palette.
If you record per-fixture palettes, they will only be valid for the fixtures that they were created with or that have been added to the palette. Also remember that position palettes are created as per-fixture by default.
It might be worth thinking about why you feel that you need a start show. This was a habit of mine with the Wholehog 2, but the only start show I travel with these days is for my media server palettes. I generally find with a Wholehog 3 that configuring my start show for a moving light rig takes as much time as starting from a fresh show and working as I go. I'm much less dependent on palettes because fixture control on the Wholehog 3 is much faster and more intuitive than it was with the 2.
