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Dear Mr. Peter, there is a lamp named Tornado, which has five independent lamp heads that can rotate vertically around and back, and each lamp head has an independent main beam and lamp head lamp ring. At present, there is a mode that requires each lamp head to move vertically around and back, while requiring the overall control of the main beam and lamp ring of the five lamp heads. This means that each lamp head has its own corresponding DMX channel control, but the five main beams of the five lamp heads have only one channel to control (or only four RGBW color channels to control the color of the five main beams as a whole). There is only one channel to control the five light rings of the five lamp heads (or only three RGB color channels to control the overall color of the five lamp heads). At present, I use the reference function to compile each main beam and lamp ring, and control the main beam and lamp ring of the five lamp heads jointly by controlling the properties of the referenced objects. At the same time, each lamp holder has its own function of moving around and back, but I failed, because the DMX value of the reference object must be defined to use the reference function, and I cannot skip this link. I would like to ask Mr. Peter if there are other ways to achieve this function.

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@ACME-Lighting  I started a discussion about this some time ago, there is no proper solution for some problems yet. I tried it with a reference on a referenced head and it works with the beam but not with the ring. The reference wich comes first in the list always works but the second reference did not link in a test with MA3.

Here is the link to the discussion:

 

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Mr. NRG Sille, thank you for your reply. According to your method and some of our own thinking, we have written the light library so far, which can realize the separate control of beam area and LED light ring area. The main use is to virtual channel all sub-beam and sub-LED aura, and then use the "override" function to realize joint control. As shown in Figure 1, the beam is cyan and the light ring is white. However, there are still two problems: 1. The second set of colors cannot be defined in the light library function, as shown in Figure 2, so we use the customization function to customize the second set of colors (for the led light ring). The first set is used for beam), as shown in Figure 3, but this definition cannot be reflected in 3d, and the light ring can only light the full value. 2. We used the same method to deal with the CTO and COLOR functions of beam and found that the CTO and color functions of beam would affect the LED halo, as shown in Figure 4 and Figure 5, and would influence each other in the stroboscopic function area. Either shutter1 or shutter2 alone controls both the beam and the led ring area. I will put the light library file below, please give a light teacher help to look at.

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Dear @ACME-Lighting, yes, as pointed out by NRG Sille, we have looked into this in Robe and provided some guidance and ideas in this post. There still are limitations when describing some of these complex devices and the GDTF Group has been looking at different ways to solve this in the future. One of the possible proposals is described here.

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@ACME-Lighting  I edited the gdtf file you posted and have attached it to this post. Unfortunatly the solution with the relations it is not working with CTO, Strobe and Colorwheel, it only works with ColorAdd RGBL. Now both modes are working, maybe you have to add some virtual dimmers if you want to dim the rings and beams seperately.

 

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