how to: Control moving heads from resolume, live, with color

[Zoltán]

A fixture overwrites value of previously created if placed to the same channels.
I think this is a feature, and here is an idea how you could use it.

Let's say you want to control moving heads, which have rgb color mixing on their 3-5 dmx channels.
I made this patch where you can map controls of your moving head. viewtopic.php?f=14&t=12513
Map the moving heads to the correct grayscale, with layer input.
Place those mapped lights in the correct dmx channels, then create a single fixture which has the same color space as your moving head.
Map the color fixture to your composition to the place you want to get the color info from.
Now place this color fixture to your dmx output to the 3-5 channels.
Automate the remaining channel values in the patch clip.

Now you have a moving head entirely controlled from resolume with color from video!

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[Programfeed]

Awesome work. Thanks for sharing.

[Menno]

A fixture overwrites value of previously created if placed to the same channels.
I think this is a feature, and here is an idea how you could use it.

Just to clear one thing up, this is undefined behaviour, not a feature. It may work correctly today, but it may work differently tomorrow. To do this right you would have to place one fixture in front of the pixel channels and one fixture behind. The red channels in the dmx output editor indicate that you may get unexpected results in those channels.

However, this is a nice quickfix ... for as long as it works

[Zoltán]

A fixture overwrites value of previously created if placed to the same channels.
I think this is a feature, and here is an idea how you could use it.

Just to clear one thing up, this is undefined behaviour, not a feature.

Then let me rephrase,
what I meant was, that this behavior should be considered a feature

To do this right you would have to place one fixture in front of the pixel channels and one fixture behind.

Right, that would be a safer way.

So if this behavior changes:
(take the same moving head as above, rgb colors on channels 3-5)
you would map the first two channels to the patch grayscale to the first two brackets, (2 channel L colorspace fixture),
then you map the RGB Color fixture to the area you want to get the color info from and place them to the next few DMX output channels,
then you place the third fixture(3 channel L colorspace) for the remaining DMX control channels to the most right 3 brackets of the grayscale .

[Ofaroqui1]

Is there a way to do this in Windows? That patch is for the Quartz Composer (Mac) only right?

[Zoltán]

Is there a way to do this in Windows? That patch is for the Quartz Composer (Mac) only right?

right,
but there is a processing sketch loader that can make the same possible on windows.
Of course you'll need to write a sketch for that.
http://ericmedine.com/spout-controller-for-resolume/ would be a good starting point I think.

[bigart]

With Resolume no longer accepting quartz composer files, have you developed any other work arounds?

[Zoltán]

Not yet.
But you can use a white solid color in the same manner to control a fixture channel.

[bigart]

If I’m programming a 10 channel kinetic fixture, would i make all 10 channels L and change the start channel on each fixture in the universe to control that parameter? Then use a slider for intensity to adjust the parameters from 0-255? Curious how you might program it.

[Zoltán]

Yes, something like that should work.