The movement is used to control beam direction. The movement can be manually controlled and put into sequences step by or alternative put into sequences as predefined shapes. Panel Description - Bezier Shapes.
Additional there is a Fanning control which is used for aligning more fixtures. This function only have an effect when a more fixtures are selected.
See: Panel Description - Fanning

Coordinate system
In the Coordinate system X axis is the Pan control and the Y axis is the Tilt control.
The control are done by moving the blue ball around with the mouse.




Resolution
The “Resolution” fader is used to set XY/ mouse reaction so it fit the users application.
Sometime a rough control are needed and sometime a fine Control are needed.




Lock axis
If only one axis are to be moved then the axis can be locked with the padlock.
The locked axis will then not change when the ball is moved.
Both axis can be locked at the same time.




Fine Tune
To fine tune position the 4 arrows are available. These arrows will increase / decrease the control channel with 1.
To center the position the “Center” button in the middle are available.



Some fixtures has an extra Pan and Tilt control channal. This may be named Pan / tilt 16bit or Pan / Tilt fine.
Freestyle of course support these extra channals.
They are named Pan / Tilt 16bit. And to access them the shift key are to be pressed when the fin tune arrows are used.
See eventually: Fixture Creator - Movement configuration

Up / Down, Left / Right adjust the Pan / Tilt 8bit channel.
Shift + Up / Down, Left / Right adjust the Pan / Tilt 16bit channel.


Note:
Not all fixtures are made with a default value that brings the fixture in the middle position.
The optimal default value for pan and tilt is 127 or 128 but are sometime by mistake set to 0.
How ever the “Center” button bring the fixture to mid position, 127.
See: Fixture Creator - Channel Description

Flip.
This function turns the fixture 180 deg but maintain the same beam direction.






This is useful if the beam is in a position where a turn will bring it past the fixtures turning limit.
By Flip it will be placed in 180 deg position still with the beam in the same direction. The turn can now be performed without going into the limit.

Note this is only valid for fixture that can turn 360 deg or more.
To work properly it requires that range is defined.
See: Fixture Creator - Movement configuration


Inverse Pan and Tilt.
The – X inverses the Pan channel and –Y inverses the Tilt Channel



The inversion is done on the output which means that all displayed values in the panels are as normal.
Example Pan inversed.
The blue ball is moved from left to right, Fine Tune “→” pressed the value in the faders on the right side of the main window goes from 0 → 128 → 255.
Looking in the output window, “Output” → “Show Output” the value goes from 255 → 128 → 0.


Absolute / Relative movement.



Absolute / Relative movement works on a group of fixtures.
Blue arrow is absolute movement where a fixtures are moved to the position of the blue ball when it is move.
The initial Pan and Tilt position is of no matter. All selected fixtures will go to the same position.

When the relative movement is enabled (Red arrow), then the fixtures will only be moved the relative to the initial position.

Example.
4 fixtures are set one by one to a unique position.
All fixtures are then selected and “Relative movement” is enabled.
The fixture will now be moved relative to there initial position.
Initial position is F1: Pan = 110, F2, Pan = 120, F3: Pan = 130, F4: Pan = 140
Relative movement enabled and the blue ball is now move 20 to the right.
Position is then F1: Pan = 130, F2, Pan = 140, F3: Pan = 150, F4: Pan = 160



Bezier Shape.
Shape is basically a predefined shape or pattern which the pan and tilt movement will follow automated.
This makes it easy to make the light move without making sequences with a lot of steps /points.
The shape generator is not a stand alone movement control but a function that goes into a cue like everything else.



The On/Off button are as the name says used to switch on or off, the automated movement.

Speed is controlled with the slider. It has a range from 0 to 10.000. Default is 1.000.
0 is the slowest speed and though the value is 0 then the shape still moves.


In the shape box 6 different shapes can be selected.



The “Shape” button opens the Bezier shape window where it is possible adjust or edit the shape.



For further information on Bezier Shapes see: Panel Description - Bezier Shapes

Note:
The Blue Ball don’t move.
When running Shape the Blue ball don’t move. However monitoring the DMX output for Pan and Tilt it can be seen that these values changes with the shape.
The update of the blue balls position was removed because of some issues.