This is a seemingly bizarre request - but anyone who has ever used a DMX controlled moonflower in QLC+ will understand. To achieve constant rotation on a lot of these fixtures, you have to create a sequence that fades from 0 to 255, and then snaps back to 0. As the manual puts it "The dish will take the shortest route to the new position, so that continuous rotation can be achieved. i.e. from 255 to 0 will be one small step clockwise, not almost a full circle anticlockwise."
Because of this it's impossible to use a timer in QLC+ to control the speed of the rotation. Controlling the chase speed does not work, because you can not adjust individual parameters (If you faded both steps, the fixture would just go backwards and forwards rather than constant rotation). What I'd like is a new option in the EFX generator, to just create a constant 0 - 255 (reversible of course) movement. I've tried doing it with a line, but I can't make it do anything than go up and down.
Joe
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THANKS! Can't wait to be able to try this out (going to put the speed of my moonflowers on a fader on my MIDI keyboard). Not sure what I'd call it. One question - does the EFX generator now allow you to add a fixture with only one axis? Moonflowers of course do not have tilt. My Datamoons have a blank channel on 2 luckily so I can put a fake tilt channel there with no effect on the fixture, thus allowing me to use the EFX generator.
Joe
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This is a seemingly bizarre request - but anyone who has ever used a DMX controlled moonflower in QLC+ will understand. To achieve constant rotation on a lot of these fixtures, you have to create a sequence that fades from 0 to 255, and then snaps back to 0. As the manual puts it "The dish will take the shortest route to the new position, so that continuous rotation can be achieved. i.e. from 255 to 0 will be one small step clockwise, not almost a full circle anticlockwise."
Because of this it's impossible to use a timer in QLC+ to control the speed of the rotation. Controlling the chase speed does not work, because you can not adjust individual parameters (If you faded both steps, the fixture would just go backwards and forwards rather than constant rotation). What I'd like is a new option in the EFX generator, to just create a constant 0 - 255 (reversible of course) movement. I've tried doing it with a line, but I can't make it do anything than go up and down.
Joe
Implemented in git as Line2 - linear movement, only one direction. If you know a better name, tell me :)
Jano,
THANKS! Can't wait to be able to try this out (going to put the speed of my moonflowers on a fader on my MIDI keyboard). Not sure what I'd call it. One question - does the EFX generator now allow you to add a fixture with only one axis? Moonflowers of course do not have tilt. My Datamoons have a blank channel on 2 luckily so I can put a fake tilt channel there with no effect on the fixture, thus allowing me to use the EFX generator.
Joe