fixture allign with spread.

[bertes1979]

I have a question about Align with Spread. I want to make a color spread over several ledheads. I fail to make a transition between two colors. I use the manual literally but it still fails.
If I use two colors I've always one color to the 4 1st and 2nd color on the last four. But none overgan between the color.
What am I doing wrong or there are tips on how I should do it.

sorry but bad in english so typing google translate .....

[Gregory]

Are you using a Colour Macro channel or similar to set the colours? It won't attempt to spread between fixed range values, only where there is a percentage. Should work fine with separate Red, Green and Blue channels though. Can you tell me what fixture and mode you are using?

[bertes1979]

i am using Mac101 in raw mode 12ch and i use de rgb channels...

[niclights]

I don't think this function works as you are expecting.

As I understand it the align spread function relates to when you have a group of fixtures which already all have some attributes at different values and want to align them with another group but where the new group has a different number of fixtures. In this situation 'spread' tries to evenly distribute the values from the first group across the new group.

For example, you have 10 spots on a back truss with a 'fan-out' look on pan. You decide you want to replicate this fan-out look across your 20 spots on the mid truss. The align spread function will take the values from the 10 spots from the back truss and evenly distribute them across the 20 spots on the front truss. It is important to note here that it will not try to calculate any new values but will simply duplicate some of the existing ones as best it can.

At the moment if you want to make a transition between two colours across a group of fixtures I think the only way is to use FAN.

[icke_siegen]

Yes, what bertes wants to do can be done with Align - it sounds you do everything correct, and only need to toggle one option ('Repeat' to 'Spread'):

- Clear
- set first fixture to your starting colour
- set another fixture to target colour
- select all fixtures for which you want to set the colour blend
- ML Menu, Align
- set appropriate options (Spread Attributes, Align Programmer Attributes)
- select first ('starting') fixture, select the other ('target') fixture
- click 'Align'

For my taste the implementation is a little uncomfortable, but it works (of course given what Greg said - should be obvious that you cannot do a blend with Macros or static colours)

[niclights]

Amazing. The key was that the values to be aligned to must be in the programmer before you enter the align menu. Something doesn't feel quite right about this but main thing is that is works. Great stuff!