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Hello!

I've reached a dilemma with my Tiger - I'd like to use my ADJ MEGABAR LED's (over 20 of 'em; 11dmx mode) with the console and would like to make some good dimmer shapes to these fixtures. Is it possible to download the shape files from somewhere or pointers, how to make it?

Also if possible, also pointers for using them on my Expert Titan console.
Thanks in advance!

For Classic you can edit the shapefile and personality to achieve this. I don't have time to go into detail but if you search here there are loads of topics covering shapefiles in the past, just make sure you are looking at ones for Classic rather than Titan as they are slightly different.
The trick is to ensure each attribute in the personality file is assigned to a unique attribute type - for example by default all the colour components are unclassified (0). You need to change them so each one is something specific, for example pan, tilt, colour 1, red, green, blue etc. Then in the shapefile create a shape that applies a pattern to all of them. You must use the phase value in the shapefile to create the required spread. Make multiple shapes for different spreads.
The shapefile is SG.DAT and found on any standard personality disk - download a disk, extract it to your computer and then open it in notepad or similar. You can do the same with the personality file.

All that said I would probably just patch individual generic rgb's and some separate dimmers. It's a lot easier and you will have full control of spreads from the UI. They are only three cell and you can have 240 fixtures in Classic.

In Titan you will get options to run shapes on the cells or on the whole fixture. Or use pixelmap etc. Should be straightforward.