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Faster way to create fixtures/props?


chowell

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Ok, so although i have had the new visualizer for awhile, I am just barely getting around to redesigning my layout. What i am creating now are my shooting stars. They are four separate stars inside of one another, with 7 channels going up the poles. For each pole channel, i am clicking the single bulb tool, creating a size 4 square bulb, and then naming it and assigning a channel. I have tried to copy it for the next one but then it is the same channel as the one I copied and i need it to be a different channel. So my question is, can i recreate a fixture or prop, but assign it to a different channel so that I can more quickly draw each fixture? I have tried but I must be missing something if it is possible. Therefore, for four 7 channel poles, I will be clicking on the single bulb tool, and creating a new fixture every time which seems extensive and slow.

Thanks in advance for any hints! Also, I have read the tutorial but am wondering if there are any other videos or articles on how to use the visualizer more quickly and efficiently.

Corey

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Copy and paste the fixture and then go into the new fixture's properties (right click and then choose properties) and change the channel that it is wired to.

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There are some already set up on the Visualizer prop page. Toward the end I believe. There are some 8 channel poles for sure and either 6 or 7 channel poles. Makes things a lot quicker if its already built

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The version of the Visualizer in beta makes poles a LITTLE easier. You go into the 'Tree Wizard' and select a 'top width' the same as the 'bottom width' and what you get are straight up and down poles. Once you create them, you can stack them together to form multi-segment poles.

A true pole wizard is on the wish list, but I have no ETA when/if it will be done.

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The version of the Visualizer in beta makes poles a LITTLE easier.

That would have been really cool to have when I drew out 16-8channel poles one fixture at a time, and tried to line them up straight.

(as I bang my head on the desk)

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