Editing Artist Help:Beam Palette

This displays the Beam index place holders. These place holders are a link to stored data to set shutter, iris and effect parameters in all active Fixtures that have data defined for this index. 

Clicking on a Beam place holder will set beam parameters on the active Fixtures. If the Beam place holder selected does not contain data for an active Fixture, the Fixture will not change.

=== Storing Beam data ===

During programming you can select Store Beam from the Fixture view toolbar, or the Beam palette window. This will open the the Palette Data dialog from where you can alter any data that will be stored and select a place holder to store the data to or create a new place holder.

These Indexes differ from the colour and brush indexes in that they are stored as index references when saved in a cue, scene or step. This means that any cues, scenes or steps with these references are changed if the Beam Index data is changed.

=== To Create a Beam Index ===

Say you wish to create an index that has data to set all the fixtures to a beam setting that is specific to a location.

* Activate all the required fixture and set the 'Preset level' for all off them. This will turn the light output on in white etc. 
* Set all the beam parameters to that required (shutter, gobo, iris, prism etc). 
* Click 'Store Beam'. This will open the Palette Data dialog displaying all the beam parameters that will be store in the Index. 
* Click OK. A new beam index is added.
 
=== To Use a Beam Index ===

Clicking on a Beam Index will cause the active Fixtures to set their beam parameters to the stored values. If the Beam Index selected does not contain data for an active Fixture, the Fixture will not change.

In the tree view any beam parameters that are set to an Index will have a yellow icon and a small blue 'i' to left of it. This indicates that when you save to a cue, scene or step it will be saved as a reference to the Beam Index. Consequently any subsequent change of the Beam Index data will be reflected in the playback of the cue or scene.