Effect and fixture profile question (making a colour wave)

Hello everyone

need some help on this one.

I,m trying to make a simple smooth colour wave, on Showtec explorer 250 basic and pro.

1: At first i tried to use a sinus effect this ofcourse didnt work becaus the effect goes up and down and not just 1 way.

2: I tried using the Mark ON (and OFF) effect this worked but, the effect is temporary and at the end of the effect it takes a while to start again. This makes the wave or fanned colour changes bumpy and not smooth at all


3: I tried using the Step, which didn,t work in the beginning, becaus when I have my spot at open white or the next colour slot (red) and the effect was at a size of below 50% nothing would happen, but when I went over 50% it would scroll to all my collour slots.

but then I discovered when i have my base colour (slot) at a -30/-50% and then apply the STEP effect to my colour slot. I get a verry nice and smooth colour wave :D

This is great but there should be a easy way to achiev this, without having to record at my colour cues to -50% of the slot colour

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Here,s some aditional info

1: The showtec explorer 250 basic are in step colour mode, when I put them in linear mode and apply a colour slot i get split colours.

2: To get a nice looking gobo wave i had to edit the fixture profile and change my gobo slots from gobo 1 0% to gobo 1 -50 thru 50% and again using the step at effect at -50% of the gobo slot.

Here how the fixture profile looks like for the colour slots,

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And Finally is there a way to recall a pallete without selecting my group first, for example pushing position 1 pallete would excute to the fixtures recorded in that pallete without recalling them first.


Thanks alot its a pretty hard question for me to explain but i hope that someone can give me some input on this to make a nice colour wave in the minimal amount of time and effort.
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    Set the color wheel to the mid point.
    In EFFECTS apply the RAMP.

    Adjust size and offset to suit.

    This works best on a CMY fixture.
    On a color wheel it may be an issue to go through OPEN.
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    [QUOTE=ChrisTall;54893]Set the color wheel to the mid point.
    In EFFECTS apply the RAMP.

    Adjust size and offset to suit.

    This works best on a CMY fixture.
    On a color wheel it may be an issue to go through OPEN.

    I think this gives a diffrent effect, I want a smooth colour wave between 2 colours.

    for example on the colour wheel

    white > red
    red > yellow
    yellow > magenta

    etc..
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    Just a bump

    Who can help me on this one, shouldn't be this hard to make a smooth colour wave between 2 colours :dunno:
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    It also depends a lot on how your fixture firmware is written. The manufacturer may or may not allow smooth transitions between slots on wheels or may require you to enable a mode to allow this. And then it may not even go smoothly between all parameters.

    Looking at your previous posts on this have you tried the "Sawtooth" table? This is a more "linear" movement than "Sine".

    Hope this helps. :)
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    [QUOTE=Marty Postma;54907]It also depends a lot on how your fixture firmware is written. The manufacturer may or may not allow smooth transitions between slots on wheels or may require you to enable a mode to allow this. And then it may not even go smoothly between all parameters.

    Looking at your previous posts on this have you tried the "Sawtooth" table? This is a more "linear" movement than "Sine".

    Hope this helps. :)

    Well I got a colour wave working with the step effect but to do this my base value has to be -50% of the slot colour. All other effect go up and down so I get a effect with 3 colours (white > red > yellow) instead of 2 (red>yellow).

    and to re record al my cue's to -50% of the colour slot seems a bit of a workaround.
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    Makes sense.

    FX run from a "base value" (the center point of the effect if you will). So if you want to run between two colors, then the center needs to be between those colors. If you put the center on an actual color, then yes it will go one color up and one color down from the "base".

    You can increase or decrease the number of colors using "Size" as well.

    Hope this helps. :)

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