revo 4 / chauvet 4 bar

snuf, welcome to the forums. glad to see you posting so soon after i approved you as a non spammer. haha.

For one you will not be able to properly visualize the 4 play in the 3D at all. The 3d can only render light beams such as a moving head spot or a scanner or a led/traditional par can. It sucks but to render led effects such as those would require a lot of programming and time that our developers just do not have. also they would have to reprogram it for every LEd type effect out there as a lot of them have different LED patterns etc. Make sense? so you have to program the revo 4 and the 4 play with the fixtures plugged in.
there is no 256 channel mode profile as I cannot make a 256 ch profile. My profile creator program (same one that is in every download of my dmx for all end users. Look in your my dmx folder on your C:drive and look for scanlibrary.exe) will not allow me to make a single profile over 99 channels. I can send you a profile that you can use several times to equal 256 channels for that fixture. Let me know.
Sincerely,

Not to defend any position, but in regards to the developers:

MyDMX is designed to be a cost effective solution. Doing such "realization" with lights that do multiple beams is not a good utilization of resources. It would be nice if they are fixtures that can do static beams, but not something as crazy as a Revo4 in 256 channel mode!

However, since some fixtures require a lot of channels(or could), MyDMX needs to remove this limitation of channels.

Well in my several years as a tech for adj/elation i have only had one request for over 100 channels that I could not easy create by making one single profile and applying it multiple times. and that fixture was a high end DL.2 That bad boy was like 160 channels. And took me literally all day for 3 days to create and splice up the profile into three parts in a comprehensible manner for the customer. so in a way for now that limitation saves me time
sincerely,

On one hand, I can sort of see a logic behind the restriction, because, really how many people really need to use that many channels on a per fixture basis?

We have to look at the "well, we can remove the limitations" argument, which I think in return would generate the "Well, now I want to see multiple beams" argument.

Which brings me up to a portability proposition, which unfortunately means more work for you, and I think in the end would not be practical.

In a recent discussion, we're talking about the Mega Panel/Mega Bar 50 and Profile panel(it's elsewhere on the forum).

Thet Mega Panel, in 26 channel mode, uses 8 banks of 3 chanels each, with a master dimmer channel and a macro channel(I think, I like these in 7 channel mode, so I don't care right now).

The problem is that while you can, as an end-user make a cluster of 4 or 8 3-channel fixtures, you can't gang the master dimmer to cover that cluster. You'd also have to make the profile more intelligent. Between the clustering in the 3D Visualizer and the grouping of multiple profiles to emulate the end results, it makes for a lot of work, not only for you, but the end user as well.

I keep thinking that the MyDMX product is very useful for more than its intended market, which was DJ's looking for a software solution. I don't think the developers had any idea it would be used in so many other environments, and quite successfully. Even so, needing such massive channel control really doesn't fit into the intended mindset behind MyDMX.

Folks, we have to accept a few limitations here and there. But, there's always Elation's Compu line of software lighting products!