Fan Mode

[zahoorjury]

Hi , while patching into Capture the Fan mode works well for the fixtures positioning but after at the time of programming the fan mode is not working,suppose if I select a group of ten fixtures and using pan for the group then the fan mode doesn't work , any help ?

[Gregory]

Do the fixtures move at all? For example they should rotate on the spot if the tilt value is in the centre (50%). Also if you hold down the Fan button there are some options, the defaults are Curve = Line, Ignore Groups and Split Fan into Parts = 1. Other settings will change the way the fixtures are fanned, more information can be found in section 4.1.19 of the manual.

[AndreH]

Hi Gregory

Just to back Zahoorjury up, I see that If i hover over the Attribute wheels with your mouse, and then use the mouse wheel (the physical mouse wheel on top of the mouse) then the fixtures does not pan in fan mode, then pan normally (even if Fan is on), You have to CLICK and DRAG the little wheel below the IPCGBESFX in order for the fanning feature to work, is this a bug?

[zahoorjury]

Thanks AndreH , a good explanation of our ( my) problem .

[Gregory]

It depends slightly on your point of view. Using the mouse wheel over the attribute view is supposed to increment and set all fixtures to the same value, this is mostly because the mouse wheel does not give the same acceleration information that the wheels on the console would give. The downside of this is that it is not possible to adjust values and keep their relative values nor use functions like fan. It was for this reason that the virtual wheels above the display were added to allow for this kind of control on TitanOne. This will have been the same in all previous versions of the software as well.

Changing Capture properties has been implemented differently and does not rely on wheel acceleration this is why the mouse wheel works for fan. I can add a feature request to add this functionality for fixture attributes in future, in the meantime please use the virtual wheels to fan attributes.

[AndreH]

Thank you for your reply. Yes please add this to future to Fan with your mouse wheel as our Titan One users are left behind. Especially now with V10 where the mouse attribute wheel is very laggy (for people without a very expensive PC with the correct specs).

[niclights]

If you hover over the wheel display area and use a mouse thumbwheel on fixture attributes it will set absolute values (ie. will look like fan isn't working) but if you hover over the virtual wheels you can still use the mouse thumbwheel for relative control (ie. fan will work).

Also note that fan will automatically disable on fixture selection and when changing attribute group (ie. selecting a new group from the attribute editor, selecting a different IPCGBES group button or when paging attributes where applicable). This is to try and help avoid accidentally fanning attributes.