Advice Working on QTX (Generic) TRITON Scanner Macro ??

[ColinD]

Hi Guys, I'm new here, so not sure where to start..... Not sure if you have a place for new users to say hello ot not... so before we get stuck in.... I'll say hello... and we can go from there.....

I'm Colin D and live in the UK near Liverpool..... I collect 80's and some 90's Video Arcade Games, and have after many years finally got round to building a games room based in a large garage (Its an open plan bungalow with a garage door basically)... I'm on a tight budget and have started to aquire some cheap lights (but kind of nice ones) to light up the games room for disco nights and for the likes of Rock Band and DJ Hero.

I'm going to light this up with a few scanners , a couple of roller barrels , some LED RGB light strips and a couple of fancy pants effects....... simple as that......

OK.... Lets get started......

I have bought a very cheap XY scanner.... in the UK this goes under the QTX brand mostly (or skytec ?)... Looks reasonably well built, but is a generic made in china and badged kind of thing.....

triton.jpg

Anyway..... I have done all the images for the Gobo's , set all the values for strobes and shutter open / close... and will share this shortly.....


But what I'm struggling with is the 'Gobo Rotation Value'

It uses Values on the 3rd Channel like this......

ROTATION

0 = SLOW > 127 FAST - Clock Wise....

and then

128 SLOW > 255 FAST - Anti Clock Wise

Now.... I really don't feel this is very intuitive.....So I'd love to finish this off with a macro that allows me to do give it these values.....

0 = FAST Anti Clock wise
127 = Slow Anticlock wise....
128 = Slow Clock wise....
255 = Fast Clock wise....

Thats makes a lot more sense to me and would be easier to control too !!!!

How do we sort this please ?

Thanks, Cols

[Jan_K]

Hej ColinD

Something like this.
See example 4

http://www.freestylersupport.com/wiki/f ... figuration

/Jan

[ColinD]

Thanks - I think I will give that a miss for the time being and deposit what I've done so far in the fixtures shortly.... please forgive me if its in the wrong format or whatever, but its something to work with anyway.... Regards, Colin

Ps.... I was kind of hoping I could do a ...... IF or ELSE kind of thing in the macro, but its not that clever..... eg 'IF Value > 128' then xxxxx ELSE Do yyyyy , Just an idea.....

also another idea would be a conversion table...... using CSV in a txt file......

this would be a brute force thing.... eg....

0,255
1,254
2,253
128,0
129,1
130,2

Or even some input output 'rules'

0>127 = 127 - Value
128>255 = Value

I was looking at an easy way to implement the go speed slider to give me....

Fast Rotate Left >>>> Slow Rotate Left >>>> Slow Rotate Right >>>> Fast Rotate Right.....

Cheers, Cols

[Spirit]

and here you have some Formulas you can use on a Macro

http://www.freestylersupport.com/wiki/f ... re_formula

/spirit

[ColinD]

Thanks... that might be something to work with..... in the mean time, I'll get the fixture data up when I get a chance... thanks, Cols