Cloning for Dummies

When you are cloning/copying fixtures try using this syntax as I have had this particular problem before (usually when trying to clone effects) and have used this syntax to solve the problem;

551 Thru 553 Copy FIXTURE 561 Thru 563 Enter

Push the Fixture button when specifying the target range (incidentally, this is the same thing you do when you want to clone one group to another).

See if this helps,i've taken the text from another post similar to yours.
C

[quote=RobbieG]If I do that the console wants to create loads more groups, for some bonkers reason. well probably a great reason but i don't know what it is...

III's new "backwards" syntax introduces some long-needed flexibility into the command line. and as great as it is, cloning to and from groups is one of the very very few cases that the new syntax can't accomodate.

When you ask the console to [Group] 'copy to' [new group], it does exactly that: makes a copy of the actual group.

or, to put it another way, if [Group] 'copy to' [new group] were to clone levels in the programmer, how would you tell the console to make a copy of a group??

brad once had a notion of improving this.

so that's the story with that... now...


BEWARE of the Fixture key!

[Group] 'copy to' [Fixture] [new group] does *NOT* result in a successful clone. (as of 1618)

selection order is totally and completely disregarded in this "Fixture Group Clone" operation.

and it hasn't been fixed in any of the 800 or so builds we've seen over the last two years.

[quote=quinn][Group] 'copy to' [Fixture] [new group] does *NOT* result in a successful clone. (as of 1618)

selection order is totally and completely disregarded in this "Fixture Group Clone" operation.

and it hasn't been fixed in any of the 800 or so builds we've seen over the last two years.

Um, we must be talking about different things here because I see it differently as I enter it in here. And it works just fine in relation to desk channels.

-I made two groups of 5 desk channels each.
-Put the channels in the first group at different levels.
-Type into programmer - GROUP 1 COPY FIXTURE GROUP 2 ENTER, bam. works fine.

Sooo, what are you talking about?

jase you're famous! one of my designers just came back from classes in new york (broadway master?? naw couldn't be...?) and totally remembered your name cuz they couldn't stop sayin it! go you yo.

i'm seeing issues (dis)regarding the selection order recorded in the Source and Destination groups

[ATTACH]526[/ATTACH][ATTACH]527[/ATTACH]

[quote=cormacjack]
551 Thru 553 Copy FIXTURE 561 Thru 563 Enter


OMG!:aargh4:

That is the exact same line of text for fixture numbers I used on a post a few weeks ago!

You're not stealing my lines are you
:chairshot:


:rippedhand:

Damn! I guess I need to copywrite my posts!

:deal:


Oh incidentally, this was also a bug where 552 would not clone to 562. Also, in this specific line you wrote, there is no need for fixture to be pressed.

To get the results you want, touch the group buttom coresponding to the fixtures in the active editor you want to clone, then Copy, Fixture, and then the destination group you wish to add to the programmer.

I.E. "All Layer 5" Copy Fixture "All Layer 6"

This pretty much works 90% of the time all the time, haha.

Er yes it is the same line and i said as much in the post.......
:dunno:

And by the looks of it world war 4 has just broken out....

Cj

[quote=cormacjack]
And by the looks of it world war 4 has just broken out....


Oh Cj, I still love ya :cool:

[QUOTE=quinn]jase you're famous! one of my designers just came back from classes in new york (broadway master?? naw couldn't be...?) and totally remembered your name cuz they couldn't stop sayin it! go you yo.


Jason....FAMOUS....wow. I would have never known. To think I remember someone curling up on Main Street, pixies....well...nevermind.
:tapedshut: :tapedshut: :tapedshut: :tapedshut: :tapedshut:

WOW! Are we surrounded by celebrities?
COOL!:notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy:

Quinn, I gotcha. Doing a straight 1 for 1 clone works but doing a reverse order does not.

Jon, puking too, don't forget the puking.

[QUOTE=jabadger]Quinn, I gotcha. Doing a straight 1 for 1 clone works but doing a reverse order does not.

Jon, puking too, don't forget the puking.

Oh trust me...we never forgot that! I just stopped before I typed it.