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A few questions about R20s as they are bugging me a bit........

One

When editing the R20 (comparing it to a Mac250+) I was looking at the values. Compared to the 250 manual and the R20 for the Pearl; it seemed very different. The values seemed out of place.

For example:
Yellow (according to the 250 Manual) is V24, but on the R20 its V18 and Blue is 24. V standing for Value.

Gobo 2 (according the the manual) is V20-29, however in the R20 its value 19; which according to the manual is Gobo 1.

It seems to happen with all colours and gobos.

Prism is the same too; no rotation on according the manual is V80-89 to not rotate it, but the R20 says its 150 - 215; which according the manual is to actually take the prism off.

Two

What is "Spn CW %3d%%" and what will it display in the desk?


Cheers

Neil




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1) Those values in the .r20 file are in Hexadecimal.

2) Range tables determine text relative to values that will be displayed when using 'attribute display=intelligent' (as opposed to 'raw'). The %3d%% and subsequent formulas are code for displaying % values next to the name. Be vary careful if you edit these. IIRC they contain hidden chars in normal text editors. The majority of range tables are output from D4. If you do want to edit I suggest you use a hex editor or similar which will show precise contents of each byte.

Hi Nick,

thanks for that.

What is Hexadecimal? Is this something just for Avo desks?

The 'Values' I got off the martin manual are the number out of 255.

And in the R20 editor (see seperate topic) this is what I have put in.

Cheers

Erm? No. Hex is a different number base. Someone not pay attention in maths? Decimal is base 10, Hex is base 16. Google should help

arr yes.

Perhaps I should check with Raul the values are being changed to Hex.

Cheers

They are.

As niclights said, you type values in decimal (digital 0-255) in the software interface, and they'll translated to Hex after generation (for console understanding.

Why? -> Normally you'll find decimal values on fixture's manuals, and console needs to read as hexadecimal.

Cheers.