Happy to have these to watch, I was totally lost, and at first it seemed like things were just way over complicated, but now I see that once things are set up, then all the programming options are far easier, I just need to retain all this stuff.
Following this video, I have 5 fixtures patched. I cannot arrange them as you did here. They show up as a black dot in the center, and all on top of each other. I've just followed through this several times with the same result?
MagicVis only runs directly on the MQ500M console, other consoles you need to network to your PC running the MagicVis software to connect the visualiser (the PC does the graphical processing).
You can request new fixtures for the library here: secure.chamsys.co.uk/bugtracker/bug_report_advanced_page.php all we need is the DMX chart or channel map for the fixture. You can also use our fixture finder to locate fixtures: secure.chamsys.co.uk/fixturefinder/
Is there a way to turn off auto groups in patching? If I have a bunch of custom head groups the default auto groups clutter up my groups tab with no other way to get rid of them except for manually deleting every single auto-group in the rig.
When laying out in the visualizer, can I fan the fixtures from the first or last light in the selected heads? The goal being to have head 101 stay where it is, and the rest of the heads fan away from that point?
If using multiple universes we'd recomend using an Artnet Node (something like one of these www.chauvetprofessional.com/products/net-x-ii/) you can send the data to the node over a single network cable.
Go to the 'tools' menu at the top of the MagicQ window and select 'change files location' and make sure MagicQ is storing your files in your documents folder. Also note that MagicQ doesn't support non uk keyboard characters in the PC username.
This will be as in your settings you have setup > View Settings > Keypad Encoders > Keypad Syntax - Theatre Patch set to 'yes'. Change this to no and then try again.