I have looked at the .bez files for the shapes in FS, and have figured out how they work.
they contains 24 DMX values for 4 positions, and 8 direction vectors (pan and tilt values)
you can open and edit the files by opening them in notepad or any other text editor (I prefer notepad++).
The existing bez files is located in "...../Frestyler/Chasers" folder. remember to put yours files in that folder, otherwise FS cant find them
(The bez files only contain the DMX values, everything after the \\ for each line is my comments)
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64 \\ Pan : Position 0 [yellow]
190 \\ Tilt
64 \\ Pan : Direction vector for position 0 [Blue]
150 \\ Tilt
64 \\ Pan : Direction vector for position 1 [Blue]
104 \\ Tilt
64 \\ Pan : Position 1 [Red]
64 \\ Tilt
104 \\ Pan : Direction vector for position 1 [Blue]
64 \\ Tilt
150 \\ Pan : Direction vector for position 2 [Blue]
64 \\ Tilt
190 \\ Pan : Position 2 [Red]
64 \\ Tilt
190 \\ Pan : Direction vector for position 2 [Blue]
104 \\ Tilt
190 \\ Pan : Direction vector for position 3 [Blue]
150 \\ Tilt
190 \\ Pan : Position 3 [Red]
190 \\ Tilt
150 \\ Pan : Direction vector for position 3 [Blue]
190 \\ Tilt
104 \\ Pan : Direction vector for position 0 [Blue]
190 \\ Tilt
The blue rectangles works like a direction vector for the red rectangle, which is positions. there is two direction vectors for each red (and yellow) rectangels: one before and one after a position.
the syntax in the file is
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[space][DMX value - pan[space] \\ line 1
[space][DMX value - tilt][space] \\ line 2
.
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[space][DMX value - pan[space] \\ line 23
[space][DMX value - tilt][space] \\ line 24
[space]
I have used it to make straight vertical and horizontal movements for my scanners. sometimes it is easier to edit the bez files instead of doing it in the shape windows.
[EDIT] When you are editing the bez files in notepad make sure the values are not above 255 which is the highest DMX value. FS can still run the file but the movinghead/scanner will stop moving in the pan/tilt direction when the DMX value reach 255.