116-ch fixture issues

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Textures
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Joined: Sun Aug 17, 2014 12:52 pm

116-ch fixture issues

Post by Textures »

Hi all-

This is to bump a topic that has shown up previously, but I have not seen a resolution on it. My apologies if I simply missed it!

The issue deals with creating a fixture profile for an instrument with an absurd number of DMX channels. In my case, I need to create a 116 channel profile for a 5x5 matrix moving head.

When using the editor, everything goes well until the number of channels gets above 60 or 70. Then, it is unable to make additional edits due to an Internet timeout of some sorts.

Has anyone been able to overcome this issue?

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[Side Note: since each pixel in the matrix has the same set of channels, I was able to work around the issue in DMXIS by building a set of smaller device profiles that gave me the same abilities when I assembled them. HOWEVER, that approach will be very cumbersome in D-Pro.]
Textures
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Re: 116-ch fixture issues

Post by Textures »

Bump!

Anyone with a solution on this issue?
cgrafx
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Re: 116-ch fixture issues

Post by cgrafx »

Textures wrote:Bump!

Anyone with a solution on this issue?
The fixture files are simple text files. You can hand edit them with a basic text editor. (don't use a word processor for this).

I'd add all the entries for the non-repeated stuff in the online editor and the use a text editor to add in the stuff that can effectively be done through copy paste entries.

for example, here is the file for a Chauvet 4-bar Tri. You can see the repeated entries for each of the 4 light heads of RED, GRN, BLU.
------------------------------------
Mode
S,0,9,RGB
S,10,29,Auto 1
S,30,49,Auto 2
S,50,69,Auto 3
S,70,89,Auto 4
S,90,109,Auto 5
S,110,129,Auto 6
S,130,149,Auto 7
S,150,169,Auto 8
S,170,189,Auto 9
S,190,209,Auto 10
S,210,229,Auto 11
S,230,249,Auto 12
S,250,255,Sound
Dimmer
D,0,255,
Strobe
S,0,9,Off
V,10,255,Spd
RED
D,0,255,A
GRN
D,0,255,A
BLU
D,0,255,A
RED
D,0,255,B
GRN
D,0,255,B
BLU
D,0,255,B
RED
D,0,255,C
GRN
D,0,255,C
BLU
D,0,255,C
RED
D,0,255,D
GRN
D,0,255,D
BLU
D,0,255,D
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