Custom fixture selections

Good morning- or afternoon on the East.

I have been working on a rig with 24 color blasts all lined up in a row across the stage, lighting different scenic elements. I have been trying to create a chase or an effect where all units have a base color of purple, then creating a green color shift that uses 3 units at a time, but fades from one to another in a marquee fashion. So for the first step all units are purple and units 1-3 are green. The next step units 2-4 are green, rest are purple including unit 1. Step 3 is 3-5 at green rest at purple. I know that buddy's and repeats are used for fan effects, but is there a efficient way to select a group of 3 fixtures then hit "next" and the group of 3 moves over one fixture?

I have ended up creating 25 individual groups, representing the different steps and created the chase that way. It just took a lot of time setting up the groups.

I do not what fixtures to pass through other colors getting from green to purple, otherwise I could just use a fanned effect from the effects pallet.

Looking for any suggestions. Thanks for any help.

Glen
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  • OK, here is an update.

    Was able to work the effects to create an effect that was close.
    Selected the LED, turned them to full, then I had to put them all to a red before starting to modify the hue effect using step. I was able to modify the size to alternate them from green to purple. Seems that the selected color needs to be the opposite side of the spectrum in order to get the 2 colors I am looking for.

    I then saved the effect, went to fanning/groups, turned repeating on and selected 24 (total number of fixtures) then played around with the fanning controls to get the look of the marque. Now my only issue is that I would like to make the transition from one unit to the next a fade rather than a bump.

    I could not find a way to smooth that out, so I might be back to making a real chase so I can control the ins and outs.

    Would appreciate any other ideas.

    Glen
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  • OK, here is an update.

    Was able to work the effects to create an effect that was close.
    Selected the LED, turned them to full, then I had to put them all to a red before starting to modify the hue effect using step. I was able to modify the size to alternate them from green to purple. Seems that the selected color needs to be the opposite side of the spectrum in order to get the 2 colors I am looking for.

    I then saved the effect, went to fanning/groups, turned repeating on and selected 24 (total number of fixtures) then played around with the fanning controls to get the look of the marque. Now my only issue is that I would like to make the transition from one unit to the next a fade rather than a bump.

    I could not find a way to smooth that out, so I might be back to making a real chase so I can control the ins and outs.

    Would appreciate any other ideas.

    Glen
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