Effect Manager Question

Hi. Welcome to the forums.
Can you tell me which exact model fixtures you are using and in what channel mode if there is more than one? It will help me troubleshoot.
Also what release date of my dmx are you using?
Sincerely,

The intelligent lights are ADJ DJ SPOT LED and the color strips are Chauvet color strip mini lights.

I'm using the Jun 1 2011 revision of myDMX

Well I have patched in two DJ Spot LED's and 2 ColorStrip in RGB mode and i went into the effect generator and on advanced tab I see options for pan tilt dimmer color shutter gobo p/t speed Red Green and Blue.

color mixing tab works fine with the RGB channels from the strip. Same with Gradient and the Pan/Tilt Effects.
So I guess I cannot replicate your issue. Care to post a screen shot?
Sincerely,

I'm actually using the mini RGB strips in a different mode right now where channel one is a set of color presets and the second channel is a virtual shutter/strobe. Because the DJ spots and the strips both have attributes for color and shutter, I have renamed these channels with a prefix to indicate fixture type using the scan library editor. For example, the "color" channel on the DJ Spots is now "DJ color" and the "color" channel on the strips is now "Mini color." The hope was that if I renamed these attributes to be fixture specific, each fixture would have their own setting under the advanced effects tab instead of having the color controls for both the dj spots and the RGB strips lumped into one.

If I start the effect manager with only the dj spots selected, here's what the advanced tab looks like:



If I start the effect manager with only the RGB strips selected, here's what the advanced tab looks like:



However, if I start the effect manager with both the RGB strips and the dj spots selected, something weird happens. I get the three attributes from the RGB strips, but I only get four attributes from the dj spot and the other three are lost:

Don't rename the channels. That might be the problem. The profiles are key to using the effects gen and the 3D.

I loaded up two of each and opened up the Efx Gen with both selected and i got this.

Would you like me to send you the Profiles I am using?
also yes Blue showed up aswell it is just down a notch.

I do have separate control of the color strips when they are placed in RGB mode, just like in your last post. However, I'm currently using the strips in color preset mode.

This mode has a channel on the strips named "color" which is a set of presents and a channel named "shutter."

Because the dj spots have a "color" and "shutter" channel as well, the effect manager lumps both fixture types into a single control under the advanced tab. I suppose that was the way it was designed, but it presents an issue: What if I want to use different parameters for the different fixture types? This was the original reason why I began to mess around with the naming of the attributes.

For example: what if I wanted, during the same scene, for the color channel on the DJ spot to run on a slow triangle and the preset color channel on the the color strips to run a fast pulse?

If I want this type of control, do I have to run the effect generator separately for each fixture type and then manually merge the steps together to form a single scene?

If you ran the effects generator separately then you will have two different effects playing individually. There really is no easy way to merge the effects together. I think maybe the mode of the fixture that you picked and the effect you are trying to do is too advanced for my dmx. My dmx is really just a simple software control solution.

We'll, I'm sure I make do with it. Thank you very much for spending the time to help me out with this.

This is the typical issue raised by others:
Wanting to run more than one scene at the same time. This is just something MyDMX doesn't do.

The option is to make Scene 1, Scene 2, and then Scene 3 being a manual hybrid of Scene 1 and 2 combined.