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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  • I was able to get the effect I was (the client) looking for using the delay times and also added a 3rd and 4th color to the sequence so it looked pretty cool once I was done.

    On the same note as beefing up the effect generator, I would love to be able to apply the repeating and buddy selection option to fixture selection in the programmer instead of just for fanning. This would allow for real quick and creative fixture selections without having to create groups or to use auto menus to the nth degree and fill the pallets up with tons of extra cells being used, taking up valuable real estate.

    Any thoughts???

    Thanks for all the prior help. Got me through this show with "flying colors"

    Glen
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  • I was able to get the effect I was (the client) looking for using the delay times and also added a 3rd and 4th color to the sequence so it looked pretty cool once I was done.

    On the same note as beefing up the effect generator, I would love to be able to apply the repeating and buddy selection option to fixture selection in the programmer instead of just for fanning. This would allow for real quick and creative fixture selections without having to create groups or to use auto menus to the nth degree and fill the pallets up with tons of extra cells being used, taking up valuable real estate.

    Any thoughts???

    Thanks for all the prior help. Got me through this show with "flying colors"

    Glen
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