Editing Artist Help:Complex Steps

This example which is found in 'SceneSteps.wsp' is compiled from a customer's request for help. This scheme consists of forty Metamorphosis Mix LED fixtures from Space Cannon. The client gave the following remit.

* All fixtures off 
* All fixtures start turning BLUE (chasing) from fixture 1 to 40... At the end all would have to be in blue 
* This cue stays 15 seconds (fixtures all in blue) 
* Then from fixture 1 to 40 (chasing) the fixtures start turning Yellow. Wait 1 minute 
* Then from Fixture 40 to 1 (chasing) the fixtures start turning BLUE again 

This scene with have to repeat itself every hour. 

=== Strategy ===

==== Scene Group 1 - black - blue - yellow - blue - black ====

The bulk of this is done in a 160 step scene. The 39th step has a hold time of 15 seconds, the 79th step has a hold time of 1 minute and the 119th step has a 15 second hold time. All other step intervals are controlled by the Scene Control panel. The scene is defined with a count of one which means that it will go through its steps once then deactivate itself.

==== Cue List 1 - Cue 1 ====

This cue simply accesses the above scene. It has an enabled hold time of 3 minutes which is just enough for the the scene to run through its steps.

==== RTS - Real time event ====

The hourly trigger is provided buy a real time event. It has a start time of 1.00am and a cycle time of 1 hour. This means that it retriggers Cue 1 very hour until 11.00pm.

=== How the Scene was created ===

Activate the first fixture and set its colour. 

Click 'New Scene' in Program Control 

Select 'All Flagged' and input a name for the scene 

Click 'Save + No Clear' 

This procedure will set the colour of the first fixture, set its colour parameter flag and create a new scene. After the scene is created the parameter flag is still set meaning that subsequent 'Save' operations will store this parameter also.


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* Activate the next fixture and set the colour. 
* Click 'New Step'. 
* Click 'Save + No Clear' 

This will add a second step to the scene which will contain the first and second fixture set to the required colour.

Continue this process until all the fixtures are set to the desired colour. In this case there will be 40 steps at this point.


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* Deactivate all fixtures 
* Activate fixture 1 and set it to the second colour. 
* Click 'New Step' 
* Click 'Save + No Clear' 

Do this for the next 40 steps until all the fixtures are set to the second colour.


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* Deactivate all fixtures 
* Activate fixture 40 and set it to the first colour again 
* Click 'New Step' 
* Click 'Save + No Clear' 

Repeat going backwards through the fixtures this time until all are blue again.


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* Deactivate all fixture 
* 'Clear all flags' 
* Set the step combo box to the last step of the scene (i.e. 120) and click on 'Step'. This will set the parameters from the scene step. 
* Click 'New Step' 
* Uncheck the last fixture from the tree. 
* Click 'Save + Clear' 

This will save a new step without the last fixture. When the sequence runs it will appear black.


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* Click 'Step' in the Scene programming section. 
* Click 'New Step' 
* Uncheck the last fixture from the tree. 
* Click 'Save + Clear' 

Continue this until the last step which will be blank.

=== Summary ===

There are many ways to create scene steps. You could, for example, have copied steps and edited them. This document simply outlines how this example was created.