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I am unable to add fixtures. I get the message in the title of thread.

Hi,

I believe there could be a few problems with the wiki as djsupport as recently moved the servers for it, I do believe. Please bare with us while we sort any problems. Thanks for letting us know about this.

Regards,
Nathan

This is not a wiki issue it is an FS issue please explain your FS issue more,

djSupport wrote:This is not a wiki issue it is an FS issue please explain your FS issue more,

In that case I did submit a bug report and Raph picked up the issue and is sorting for the next issue.

I've downloaded fixtures from the site and non of them will work. When I double click the file I get the message in the title. I also had an issue where I used fixture creator to map out a light. The light worked fine, but I wanted to get rid of the red x's and replace them with the actual colors. When I did this and saved the fixture everything seemed ok. When I opened FS I got an error and all the controls were messed up. So I opened the fixture in the creator and it said it couldn't find the files for 5 of the 15 colors and everything else that had been mapped out was missing or wrong and the layout was different, so I had to delete the fixture and start over. Had the problem twice, so for now I've just left it with the x's. I'm new to using dmx and it very likely that I did something wrong. When I did the colors I opened an existing color file in paint and changed the colors and renamed it to the colors I needed. They were all there when I opened the creator and added normally. I used some of the stock colors for the solids, but my own colors for the mixes so that the looked exactly like the colors the light produces. I don't know if this would cause a problem, but it seemed to me that as long as the file format and size was right that it should work. Thanks for the fast responses, I'll check back later.

I seen that there is a new library with current fixtures files. Can I delete all the fixtures in the folder and unzip the new files in the fixture folder?

Yes, just i would move the old files first incase you need to put them back for any reason!