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Visualizer issues / questions

FM Former Member
I have been working with all this setup for a couple weeks and just found this forum yesterday. I apologize in advance but I'll likely be posting several questions today. Sorry.... New to DMX, and I'm not the brightest bulb in the knife drawer to begin with. Smiler

I love the concept of the visualizer since I can work on scenes when I have spare time at the office without the whole rig in front of me. I've successfully built our stage footprint, trusses and stands. I've also found all my gear and gotten it installed in the correct positions. One problem though... Our chick singer is much better looking than the virtual one but my virtual counter part looks better than I do! Oh well....

Here are my questions / issuesthus far:
Par Cans - I have (8) Venue Par 38's and (4) Venue Par 64's. I can't find profiles for them, but I did find a Venue Par 56 though links on the ADJ site. All the attributes seem to be the same so I'm just using 12 56's on the virtual stage. Anyone see any real issue there?

However, I have to put the 6th fader on each of them into 'color blend' position to make them work on screen. In real life, that is not required. Why is that? Any at to fix it?

ColorStrip Mini's - again found the profile on the ADJ site. However, there is a white spot light coming off of them virtually all th time. I can't shut it off.... What is that? It does change color when I run the color macro's but I can't make it go away. Also, the color strips seem to only work in color mix mode at all. I suppose it's overly complex to actually create the different chases and effects, right? They're completely unusable in the virtual mode though until I can get the white light off. Help??

ADJ Galaxian 3D - same as color strip minis. White light all the time. Unusable until I can figure that out. Also, does that thing actually create any 'laser' type effect in the virtualizer? If so, I can't get it to work.

The ADJ Quad effect and moving head fixtures seem to work beautifully in the virtualizer.

Any help / feedback is greatly appreciated!
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S Studio42 (Guest)
With "missing profiles", please put in a profile request. This may already be addressed, but then again, one never knows. If the Venue Par56 uses the SAME attributes as the other lights you mention, there's not a whole lot of problem, but you may wish to tweak those profiles to make your own to reflect the different beam sizes.

I don't understand why you need to add a channel to get them to work. Sounds like a profile problem.

In a similar example, the ADJ 64 LED Pro uses the same attributes in 7 channel mode as the Elation Opti Tri Par in 7 channel mode. So, in some cases, mis-matching is OK. But, the Opti Tri Par has its own profile as well.

Color Strip Minis: Sounds like a profile problem. Same for the Galaxian. I mean, it is just white light ALL the time, or only when the light is "activated"? The 3D Visualizer doesn't do the animation for such fixtures, so best it can do is turn ON something so you know you have it on at least.

Laser effects: Sorry, it won't do this, but it will probably show that the light is on.

The 3D Visualizer isn't perfect, but as you've seen, it's a great tool for working offline. I can't live without that feature for that very reason.

Multi-beam effects can not be properly "animated" due to limitations in the capability of the 3D Visualizer. There are similar issues with lights that have multiple zones of lights(say, a Mega Panel in 26 channel mode, or the Mega Pixel are just a couple of examples). I find it's more important that I can work within the 3D Visualizer to see if I'm on track. Most of my stuff is fixed position LED fixtures with some spots, other color changers and a pair of movers. I'm not using any high-tech FX or stuff like that for the most part in my events.
J JinglesForum Admin
30West, welcome to the forums. If the venue par 38's are 6 channels or 7 channels most likely you could use the venue par 56 profile. I believe they are all the same dmx functions. no I do not see any real issue with that set up at all.
The reason for your issue with having to put them on a certain values on the 6th channel is because the profile see's part of that channel as a dimmer. to get output from the fixture in the 3d the dimmer channel will have to be on.
With the mini's these fixtures will not show right in the 3D due to the fixture type that it is. Same with multiple RGB Sectioned fixtures and lasers. The 3D is mainly geared towards accurate use with scanners or moving heads or par can type fixtures. Hope this helps. If there is anything I did not answer or something you want elaborated please let me know.
Sincerely,

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