Lesson 3 Tut3

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Overview

This lesson helps you to understand how to create and patch your fixtures (devices) in DMXControl 3. We will also show, how groups of devices are created (automatically).

Lecture 3: Creating and Patching fixtures

The starting point for creation of devices is the project explorer. Here you can find a tree of directories displaying the equipment such as fixtures, devices, scene lists etc. The administration is intuitive by context menus (right mouse click) or buttons, e.g. for adding or deleting items.

Hint: The project explorer is the central project tree containing all elements of your project. It is primary intended to create and browse your items. For usage in the show programming we refer to "live view" and other tools.

In following step we will create 4 moving lights of type "TS-255". You have to fill in the requested data. Please pay attention to define the correct start addresses.

By setting the hook for "autogenerate group" an group element is created automatically containing all devices of this definition step. You can also create "user defined groups". Therefore you have to select the devices (e.g. in project explorer or in LiveView") and to press the "Create Device Group" button. Renaming of groups (and other items) also can be made within the project explorer.

By right mouse click the property menu for each item appears. Here you can set additional properties such as "device id", "enabled flag" etc.

topics to be added (by beta tester)

work with DDF - Wie erzeugen?

Exercise

create all devices as shown in the figure above: 4 TS-255, 8 generic dimmer (as front lights) and 8 RGB-PARs
create two additional groups: all devices on left hand side and all devices on right hand side, rename these groups to "left" and "right"

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Certificate

I have understood the topics of this lecture and wnt to continue with next course: Lesson 4