New feature request: Moving Heads CMY and Color wheel option

xLightsSequencer / xLights

xLights is a sequencer for Lights. xLights has usb and E1.31 drivers. You can create sequences in this object oriented program. You can create playlists, schedule them, test your hardware, convert between different sequencers.

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New feature request: Moving Heads CMY and Color wheel option #3840

Open JBanbor opened 1 year ago

JBanbor commented 1 year ago

There's an option for color wheel and CMYW for moving heads but it would be nice to have an option that combines both. There are moving heads that have both CMY and color wheels and it would be nice to be able to use both rather than setting it for color wheel and having to manually control the CMY in a dmx effect.

keithsw1111 commented 1 year ago

Can you point us to the manual of such a device?

JBanbor commented 1 year ago

Aquabeam-Manual-DEU.pdf Keith, Attached is the manual for the moving head.

keithsw1111 commented 1 year ago

So it has effectively 4 colour wheels. Thinking about this I actually think you are best off defining 2 moving head models and mapping them to the same channels. When you want to sequence CMY use the one set up as CMY and when you want to use the colour wheel use the model set up with the colour wheel. That should work best.

You may need to turn on model blending and use the maximum rather than normal blend style as a DMX effect on the second model would likely zero out the other model.

I think that is the best solution in this case. The problem with trying to build this into the model is determining which to use when and I dont think there is an easy answer for that.

cybercop23 commented 7 months ago

@AzGilrock does the new MH model support this?

AzGilrock commented 7 months ago

When I'm done all channels in a moving head will be able to be controlled. You will be able to define "features". Features will contain "Channels". And channels will be able to have "ranges" for functions. It will all be customizable and dynamic. What xLights won't be able to do is know how to set both a colorwheel and a CMY wheel when a normal effect is dropped on it. You would need to control those channels from inside the moving head effect but you won't need to go outside and use a DMX effect. This screenshot is a sample of a "function" I typed in a head. You can see how I've defined a couple channels and some function ranges. We will build up a library of the few moving heads people use so these can be already defined and able to be downloaded.