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Quick change type.

I am doing the festival run at the moment and going through the joys of merging in local rigs.
As much as i love the change type functionality somedays where you turn up with minutes to spare it would be nice to have a change type by slot position function.

What i mean by this is mainly relating to gobo palletes, when you change type it looks for similarly named gobos to update but if none are found the pallet does not change, it would be nice if you could change type by gobo slot rather than name so at least you have something there and you can tweak it during the show.
Also it would be nice to have an option to remember fixture specific pallets even if you no longer have them in your patch so when you change type to a VL2500 one day and a mac2K another when you encounter a VL2500 again the information is already there. I currently have about 15 different fixtures as "Pallete Savers" in my patch and its getting messy.
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    I've ended up making my custom fixtures files where Gobo Slot 1 is always the fixed gobo and slot number 2 is the rotating gobo, no matter what the spot definition is. It's a hell of a job but needed if you want to use the change type function also for gobo slots.

    I think its weird to create the fixture profiles like the manufacturer defines them. I think they should be created the way you want to use them.

    In my basic show i use Mac700 because of all the attributes it has.
    When i change type i just want the first gobo on the first wheel to be replaced with the the first gobo on the first wheel of the new fixture. Also for fixed colors. This is why i created my own fixture profiles, where the fixed colors are called: Color 1 Color 2 Color 3 and the gobos are called Gobo 1-1 Gobo 1-2, Gobo 2-1 and so on.
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    I've ended up making my custom fixtures files where Gobo Slot 1 is always the fixed gobo and slot number 2 is the rotating gobo, no matter what the spot definition is. It's a hell of a job but needed if you want to use the change type function also for gobo slots.

    I think its weird to create the fixture profiles like the manufacturer defines them. I think they should be created the way you want to use them.

    In my basic show i use Mac700 because of all the attributes it has.
    When i change type i just want the first gobo on the first wheel to be replaced with the the first gobo on the first wheel of the new fixture. Also for fixed colors. This is why i created my own fixture profiles, where the fixed colors are called: Color 1 Color 2 Color 3 and the gobos are called Gobo 1-1 Gobo 1-2, Gobo 2-1 and so on.
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