Lesson 5 Tut3

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• preamble
• lesson 1: Installation and configuration
• lesson 2: The GUI panel concept
• lesson 3: Creating and patching fixtures
• lesson 4: The live view panel
• lesson 5: Setting properties with property panels
• lesson 6: Output plugins
• lesson 7: Summery and details - Setting
• lesson 8: Scenes (cues) and scene lists
• lesson 9: Fanning, chasers and other effects
• lesson 10: The programmer view
• lesson 11: Trigger concepts
• lesson 12: Editing scenes and scenelists
• lesson 13: Presets
• lesson 14: Summary and details - Programming
• lesson 15: Working with parallel scene lists
• lesson 16: Softpult
• lesson 17: Artnet
• lesson 18: Multi-media: Beamer tool, Matrix etc.
• lesson 19: Other clients and plugins (Android, iOS, ...
• lesson 20: Create new device definitions
• lesson 21: free topic
• lesson 22: Hints for testers and test reporting
• appendix1: Summary of commands ans shortcuts
• appendix2: Kernel menu tree

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Overview

In this lesson we explain how to control the properties of devices by several property panels. DMXControl 3 provides an very powerful abstraction level for properties, allowing to handle different devices in the same way.

Lecture 5: Setting properties of fixtures

First step is to select devices or groups in the liveview, see previous lesson. You can set properties of the selected devices by means of the "property panels". Simply click to a color or select a gobo within the beam panel. Of course, you shouldn't forgot to open the shutter or to set the brightness in the intensity panel.

Movements can be controlled by the X/Y panel. It is also shown in the live view icons. But please consider, that not the moving path, but only the destination position will be stored laterly.

Most of the property panels are self explaining. We have

• color panel - pich the wanted color
• position panel - set the pan/tilt position
• intensity panel - set brightness
• gobo panel - select gobo
• beam panel - fade between two beams (e.g. in beamer tool)

Some remarks to the intensity panel:

Attribute	Description	Example
dimmer	set dimmer value by fader or by static values	in percent
strobe	strobe speed
shutter	open or close shutter
Lumos	Lumos stands for "light", it is a direct function for dimmer/shutter, Lumos opens it (100%), NoX closes is (0%)	you don't need to know if the device includes a shutter or dimmer

A more sophisticated way of property settings is provided by the "property panel". In this panel the properties are shown with current values. Sometimes you can modify the values by typing in a DMX value, more often you can find a dropdown menu that allows to select properties in more abstract or graphical view, see the color dropdown as example for setting the RGB value of RGB Pars.

The following picture demonstrates a very interesting capability: You can even select different device types and set a common property in one step. The DMXControl kernel engine will assign the best matching values automatically. Of course, if required you can modify the attributes manually.

topics to be added (by beta testers)

• matrix panel

Excercise

• Set the moving lights to red color, the RBG Pars to blue and open the two central lamps (dimmer) to 100%
• Now set all left hand lamps to yellow and all right hand lamps to pink. You should need just 4 operations (mouse clicks) for this task.
• Observe the movement of TS-255 devices when using the X/Y pad.

Certificate

I have understood the topics of this lecture and want to continue with next course: Lesson 6