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--- personality:create_vis_from_d4 [2020/01/04 14:01] – [9. copy to correct folders] icke_siegen
+++ personality:create_vis_from_d4 [2024/08/24 08:14] (current) – icke_siegen
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 ===== - Identify the correct d4 file =====
-We assume that a d4 personality for your fixture already exists. Luckily they usually have verbose file names - have a look in the personality folder (with the PC suite installed it is ''C:\Program Files (x86)\Avolites\Titan\FixtureLibrary''). If you don't find what you need then search at https://personalities.avolites.com/ or https://www.avolites.de/downloads/d4find for the correct filename. If you still don't find anything then request the personality for Titan or build it yourself (this might be explained on another day).
+We assume that a d4 personality for your fixture already exists. Luckily they usually have verbose file names - have a look in the personality folder (with the PC suite installed it is ''C:\Program Files (x86)\Avolites\Titan\FixtureLibrary''). If you don't find what you need then search at https://personalities.avolites.com/ or https://www.avofixturefinder.com for the correct filename. If you still don't find anything then request the personality for Titan or build it yourself (this might be explained on another day).
 If you have found the correct d4 file copy it to ''\Avolites\Titan\FixtureLibrary'' in [[personality:create_vis_from_d4#prepare_a_skeleton_folder_structure|the folder structure]].
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 If there is no entry then you need to make one yourself:
-  * albeit max. 11 characters yre allowed you make your life easier if you use max. 8 characters
+  * albeit max. 11 characters are allowed you make your life easier if you use max. 8 characters
   * no spaces, no special characters, no umlauts, no symbols - just characters and numbers
   * a good habit:
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 Now, one by one, Personality Builder scans each mode. For each mode, two files are created: an .R20 file (like he classic pearl files) and a vis file which is the actual visualiser personality. However, things usually don't go that smoothly.
-The next prompt asks where the file should be saved - usually we can just confirm this (the filenam is created from our **unique** reference...):
+The next prompt asks where the file should be saved - usually we can just confirm this (the filename is created from our **unique** reference...):
 {{:personality:save_m1.png|}}
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 ==== - remove redundant ranges ====
+(will be explained when I have a suitable example)
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 ===== - test =====
+Everything in place? Fasten your belts, start the Simulator (or whatever Titan thing you use), start a new show, patch the fixtures in the modes you have prepared, open the visualiser window and be surprised:
+{{:personality:test.png?600|}}
+Here, I patched 3 fixtures of each mode, selected all and located them. Additionally I opened the Attribute Editor window so that I can have a little play. Here are some results:
+  * the good thing: all fixtures appear in the visualiser, all light up, no error messages or oddities - Yay!!!
+  * the first mode's Colour Macro channel locates to Red. Turns out that this is set in the d4 file - you may change this to Locate = White (and probably also Power On = White) there.
+  * mode #2 and #3 do work correctly, wow. Even our added colour scroll ranges do work.
+  * mode #4 works but is always orange, adding this to the colour set in the colour picker. This is due to the Amber definition which the Visualiser cannot handle (as like as the White definition).
+  * mode #5 suffers from the same Orange problem like mode #4.
+  * finally, while Colour Macro does work for mode #1 if selected separately it doesn't work if selected together with the other modes. This cannot be changed as technically these are are two separate attributes with - coincidally - the same name. Either change the d4 file, or leave it like it is, because it is very unlikely that you want to us these fixtures simultaneously in real life, isn't it?
+Hence, what we do now is deleting the Amber and White definitions from the mode 4 and mode 5 files. Such small changes can easily be done offline, then copy the file to the correct location again - and even with Titan running simply close and re-open the visualiser window and it works.
+Please find here my final files for the {{ :personality:cameo_flat_pro_12_ip65.zip|Cameo Flat Pro 12 IP65}} which this example refers to.
+Some more examples, based on this one:
+<nspages personality:visualiser_examples -r -h1 -textPages="">