The cachefile createbuilder creates a file that only the pearl can read. You need to edit the uncompressed personalities (filename ending in .R20). The cachebuilder builds a cache using the .R20 files. The values you have to edit are the raw DMX values, but you have to convert them to HEXadecimal fi...

**Question 1 You can edit the personality files. You should be looking for the tag PFTABLE. It may look something like this (martin mac250) PFTABLE "Color" -1 3 "White" 1 0 "Red" 2 54 "Amber" 3 78 "Yellow" 4 18 "Green" 5 3c "Cyan"...

One of the big differences between a pearl and a hog, is the roller. If you have a festival page on a hog, it is usually really only 1 page!! All chases / loops / scenes / colors / gobos / positions are stacked on a single fader: i.e. HOG2 Fader 2 on page 1, color chases for spots steps 1/2: blue/re...

And the GLP patend-light offcourse

I'd go for option3,
5 handles / 2 personalityfiles

Personality A: Controller (has lamp Control as fixed channel, and speed as pending dimmer)
Personality B: Head (has 1 single color channel)

First you patch the controller, then the head and finally the pending dimmer.

hey niclights, I found one of your old posts (2006): I won? Woohoo! So, for the select few who are crazy enough to mess with this, here is complete list of attribute assignment numbers above 8 which are not listed in shapefile syntax comments (probably!): 9 - Gobo1 10 - Gobo2 11 - Gobo1 rotate 12 - ...

Interesting.
When you include the memory,do you include all parameters for all fixtures?
Is the shape actually in the proggrammer after you have included the memory?
Are you sure the shape is still in the programmer at the moment you re-record the memory?

The warning does not check if you have already inlcuded the shapes. So if you have already included the shapes, you can just go ahead and press "replace the shapes".

About some USB-devices not being recognized: The GrandMA range has this problem too, there is some info about it here: http://www.wikima.net/wiki.cgi/Hardware/Usbsticks Apparantly some USB sticks identify themselves in a different way. The most common version should identify as class08 subclass06, y...

Did you perhaps save all those shows on a USB stick that is now no longer present? Or did you change the default save-directory after the software-upgrade? Sometimes the strangest errors, are the user errors.

Do as you would normally patch a dimmer, then Use softkeyB "curve=linear" and switch to "curve=relay"

Ok, thanx for your effort.

Q1: * create a shape for the first 5 fixtures, set size and speed to 0 * create a shape for the other 5 fixtures, set size and speed to 0, change direction * use "edit a shape" to select both shapes * now you can change size and speed for both shapes at the same time Q2 On a pearl: not pos...

I never tried to recreate on a console, but just tried to recreate on the simulator "pearl2004v1 dec20 2004": 4 fixtures, say all mac250 create 4 groups: group1: fixt 1 thru 4 group2: fixt 2 thru 4 group3: fixt 3 thru 4 group4: fixt 4 test all groups: OK clear programmer: PATCH-> DELETE ->...

In short: If you delete a fixture (in patch menu), all groups that start with that fixture dissapear as well. The long story: I had a fixture that was crippled due to confetti and serpentines. I needed it to lamp-off and stop moving for the rest of the show. Since there is no way to park channels fr...