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Example

Chase - Change a chaser's overlap

by: Gregory Haynes, Ricster, Apr. 2017
published: http://forum.avolites.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=5150
description: snippets to change a chaser's overlap
remarks: not a working macro but interesting discussion and insights on some properties, types, and type casting

functions

affected properties

Code

<macro id="UserMacro.SetChaseOverlap50" name="Set Chase Overlap 50%">
  <description>Set fixture overlap of connected chase to 50%.</description>
  <sequence>
    <step>ActionScript.SetProperty("Playbacks.Editor.SelectedPlayback", Chases.ConnectedHandle)</step>
    <step>ActionScript.SetProperty.Float("Playbacks.Editor.Times.ChaseFixtureOverlap", 0.5)</step>
  </sequence>
</macro>
<!-- Ricster's reply: -->
<step>ActionScript.SetProperty("Playbacks.Editor.Times.ChaseFixtureOverlap", Math.Cast.ToSingle(1))</step>
 
<!--
     Might also work. 
     Or even 
-->
 
<step>ActionScript.SetProperty.Float("Playbacks.Editor.Times.ChaseFixtureOverlap", 1)</step>
 
<!-- And as of 10.1 I think you can do -->
 
<step>ActionScript.SetProperty("Playbacks.Editor.Times.ChaseFixtureOverlap", float:1)</step>

Explanation

This explains the functional steps within the sequence. For all the other XML details please refer to Formats and syntax

  • ActionScript.SetProperty(“Playbacks.Editor.SelectedPlayback”, Chases.ConnectedHandle) makes the currently connected handle active in the editor
  • ActionScript.SetProperty.Float(“Playbacks.Editor.Times.ChaseFixtureOverlap”, 0.5) sets the property “Playbacks.Editor.Times.ChaseFixtureOverlap” to 0.5 which is 50%

Another example was published by kimwida: http://forum.avolites.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=5579 where the chasers are referred by their usernumber and a legend is set to reflect the current overlap value:

  <step pause="0.01">ActionScript.SetProperty("Playbacks.Editor.SelectedPlayback", handle:"chaseHandleUN=19159")</step>
  <step pause="0.01">ActionScript.SetProperty("Playbacks.Editor.Times.ChaseFixtureOverlap", 0.2)</step>
  <step pause="0.01">ActionScript.SetProperty("Playbacks.Editor.SelectedPlayback", handle:"chaseHandleUN=19160")</step>
  <step pause="0.01">ActionScript.SetProperty("Playbacks.Editor.Times.ChaseFixtureOverlap", 0.2)</step>
  <step pause="0.01">Handles.SetSourceHandleFromHandle("chaseHandleUN=1293")</step>
  <step pause="0.01">ActionScript.SetProperty("Handles.PendingLegend", "Overlap 20%")</step>
  <step pause="0.01">Handles.SetLegend()</step>
  <step pause="0.01">Handles.ClearSelection()</step>

How to use it

  1. once a chase is active and connected, fire this macro to set the chaser to 50% crossfade
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macros/example/changechaseroverlap.txt · Last modified: 2019/04/27 19:11 by sideshowbond

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