Simple 2 colour chaser.

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  • Hello again, I'm being really stupid I'm certain of it. I would like to create a simple 2 colour chase for the show I'm working on. If I use the colour chaser in the effects library, the light cycles through all of it's available colours. I cant select only 2 colours as far as I can tell. I think I might be able to do something by mixing and matching various various effects on the same fixture and then playing with the various settings but I feel like there should be a quick and easy fix for a function so obvious and I'm being very dense.

    Am I just missing something and being a bit stupid?

    Many thanks.

    Metric.

  • This might not be the ideal way to do this:
    Use an 2D Effect on the Color and then Fanning out the Phase Shift. By playing with color and the amplitude you should be able to get the two colors you want.

    Thats just my first idea. Theres probably some better way.

  • You obviously succeeded in the first step: using the color chaser. In the second step you have to adjust the color list in the properties window. If you don't want to use the default color list, you have to create your own color list with the colors you want in the "List of Elements" folder in the project explorer. (right mouse button etc.). Now you can use this list in the parameterization of the color chaser.

  • You obviously succeeded in the first step: using the color chaser. In the second step you have to adjust the color list in the properties window. If you don't want to use the default color list, you have to create your own color list with the colors you want in the "List of Elements" folder in the project explorer. (right mouse button etc.). Now you can use this list in the parameterization of the color chaser.

    This was the solution I was looking for. Many thanks.

    And don't forget the possibility working with cues they running in a loop. Inside the cues, you give the first cue the values 255;0;0 # 0;0;255 for color and the second 0;0;255 # 255;0;0, if the chaser should be alternate for each device in the selected device group.

    I'm not sure I understand what you're suggesting. Create 2 cues perhaps with different colour values, and then have each loop back to the other repeatedly? Thanks for your help.

  • Create 2 cues perhaps with different colour values, and then have each loop back to the other repeatedly?

    Right... you can choose for each cuelist individually the play mode. One of them is the mode "Loop". So all cues inside this cuelist will be repeated until you stop this cuelist.

    I think I understand. In this scenario, you would create an executor that would like to different cuelists. One of which would have a recursive cue list the executor would draw from for the 2 colour chase sequence.

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