This is prob totaly unrelated to your qustn BUT>>>>>
Can anyone help me ..Been offered 4x lightwave emulators at a astupid price plus a controller with no lamps & no clue as to what these lights can do??? Anyone got any info/advice..Sorry for jumpin in on ya thread runnin outa options as guys in a hurry for some $$.Thanx for any help.:rtfm:Cant find f**k all info.:sad:
There currently isn't a way to determine which fixtures have not been used in a show file. I think this could be very useful. It might be nice to just add a "Used" column to the fixture window that would indicate that the fixture has values in at least one cue or scene in the current show file.
You will probably get more responses if you start a new thread in the Automated Lighting Discussion forum.
You can find Emulator manuals and software on the High End Systems web site. Browse to www.highend.com. Click the product support link on the header and then select Emulator from the product drop-down list under the discontinued products header.
it would be niceto have the used column . . but would it be possible to write it so that i tsees if the fixture has been used at more than say 1 or 2 percent? it could have accidently been grabbed at that point, rendering the used column useless.
:)yep found that one & all the info i needed.Thanx for that though & again sorry for jumpin in on ya thread..:D[quote=teerickson]Silva,
You will probably get more responses if you start a new thread in the Automated Lighting Discussion forum.
You can find Emulator manuals and software on the High End Systems web site. Browse to www.highend.com. Click the product support link on the header and then select Emulator from the product drop-down list under the discontinued products header.
I don't think there would be much sense to adding an error margin to a yes/no column. Either the fixture is used or not used. What might make more sense is instead of displaying yes or no, we could display either a percentage or a count of cues and scenes that the fixture is used in. This would allow you to decide for yourself which fixtures are really used.
The one thing that worries me a bit about this is that it could take a lot of effort to go through an entire show and determine these figures for every single fixture that has been added. I want to make sure that we don't slow down how long it takes to open the fixture window. This kind of data gathering may have a better place on a report rather than as its own column in the fixture window.
In a report / wizzard you can mayby even make it more usefull. there might be a selection procedure of channels / parameters, after that a search range, for example cue only or scene only or preset only or any combination. After that we get a screen with the channel numbers and the cue / scene / preset numbers the channel / parameter is used in . Then we can pick a result and for example open it directly or we can choose to remove the channel from the specefic cue /scene / preset
If it takes some time to check all cues it's no problem if the result are good enough to wait for ........
I don't think there would be much sense to adding an error margin to a yes/no column. Either the fixture is used or not used. What might make more sense is instead of displaying yes or no, we could display either a percentage or a count of cues and scenes that the fixture is used in. This would allow you to decide for yourself which fixtures are really used.
The one thing that worries me a bit about this is that it could take a lot of effort to go through an entire show and determine these figures for every single fixture that has been added. I want to make sure that we don't slow down how long it takes to open the fixture window. This kind of data gathering may have a better place on a report rather than as its own column in the fixture window.
I think a report would be fine, just somethign quicker htan having to go through each cue or track an instrument through a show.
Along these same lines, it would be great to have the spreadsheet function that obsession and expression have, which maybe becomes another state of "blind" that allows for quick range editing. I definitely miss that feature in the hog.
If you're doing a single cuelist show you can unblock the whole list then get rid of zero values in your first cue. Check the contents (view cue) at the last cue of the list. Select all the channels in your rig and see which don't have a value. Voila, unused channels.
Jason has a good point. That's a good way to tell which fixtures are unused on a per-cuelist basis. If you don't want to unblock your whole show cuelist, you can also create a copy of it, unblock the copy, check the last cue, and delete the copied list when you're done.
I do still think it would be useful, however, to have a report that could provide usage information for the entire showfile.
I was thinking it might be a good addition if there was a way to report usage statistics. This is pobably coding intensive but a feature where the user could punch up a report that would spit out which which fixtures were used in which palettes and which cues/scenes. The report could be something like a fixture list that showed counts and uses below it. Perhaps the code for this could be generated off the same procees that do a garbage collect, strip unused, or check integrity. Perhaps even extend the functionality of these items...
