RGB Color on Fader?

[lindsayward]

Hi there.
I'm new to FreeStyler and this forum...
I'd like to know how to create a fader for color for an RGB Par Can?
I can choose the color using the color picker in the "Colors" window, which automatically sets the RGB values (DMX channels 1-3) on my 4-channel RGB LED light. This is neat
I would like to be able to essentially map this color spectrum to a fader (in software, then controlled by a hardware fader or encoder knob on my nanoKontrol MIDI interface).

Is this possible?
I was hoping for a set of user-assignable faders, and using some of these for color and some for intensity/dimming.

(My lights are fairly standard, I think. I uploaded my fixture file: viewtopic.php?f=23&t=5143)
Thanks in advance!

[Spirit]

hi

you can use the MIDI to DMX feature (Only available on Midi or Tui2).
there you can say i have a Midi Fader1 and you like to controll DMX channel 1 on it or Midi fader 2 and you controll DMX channel2.
you can use up to 24 MIDI to DMX channels..

Or you can program you colors Static and Chases as a Seq. and you can add them to the Submasters so you can controll the Brightness with the Submaster intensitie slider.

I recomend the second one
/spirit

[lindsayward]

Thanks so much for the reply.

I don't really understand yet, sorry.
I can "create a sequence" and set all of the steps to different colours along the spectrum, with a short fade in between. This looks nice when I play it back, but it's automatic. I want to be able to move through each of the steps with a fader.

If I try and put something on the sub master, it has to be a full cue list.
Am I supposed to make a cue list full of sequences where each sequence is just one step (which is one colour)?
If I do that, how do I use a slider to control the cue (colour) that it's up to?

(I want to be able to push a fader up and it's blue at the bottom, moves through greens, into reds, yellows, etc. And then I want to use this for any light, if I can - or at least set separate faders for the colour of each of about 6-8 lights.)

Thanks!

[Spirit]

ahh is see what you like to achive but its not possible the way you like to have it Unless your RGB fixture has a Color Channel.
only these channels will not fade nice from Color to color, but it will snap from color to color.

but the submasters works the way you say.

you can add Chases (More then 1 Step/Color) or statics to it ( just 1 step/Color).
and with the slider next to the submaster you can adjust the brightness.

you can also do this.
- Create a Seq with differnt colors.
- Play it back from the SM.
- Press Manual trigger, and each time you press Menual trigger there willl be a other color.

/spirit

[lindsayward]

Thanks for another reply!

I've spent more time today with FS, and got my stage setup in Easy View so I can test it out at home and take things in to church where the lights are... working better.

I haven't seen a useful explanation of what submasters are good for yet... unless you want to adjust the brightness overall, independent of the sequence that's playing maybe.
I don't want to adjust the brightness (all 100% please), so it seems just clicking through the cue list works better.
Could someone explain how they use submasters? (Most of the help tells you how to set them up, not what they're really useful for.)

What you suggested before about putting colour scenes on a submaster would be useful if the slider stepped through the scene list, but it's just brightness as far as I can tell.

Unless there are any other possible methods, I'll give up on this idea of a colour fader (my lights are just RGB+dimmer, no colour channel).

Thanks again!

[lindsayward]

In addition to the questions in my last post...

Is it possible in FreeStyler to get what I want by programming a generic slider with some kind of programming/scripting language? I'm sure I could write a function (in code) to convert a slider value (0-255) into RGB values (hue), but is there a way to put this into FreeStyler?

As asked before, I haven't found any kind of assignable faders. Are there any such things?

Thanks in advance for any answers to questions in this and my previous post!

[lindsayward]

I just found LuaFS on the forum here:
viewtopic.php?f=38&t=3768

So there is an embedded scripting language. If there was a way to get generic assignable faders so I could point the output of the fader to a function in a LuaFS script, then I could probably program this up...
Anyone done anything similar to this?