M.B. thank you for the feedback. i tried it again today and now it works for me again as well. i think they fixed the malfunction in the last couple of days.

hey folks,

i have got a problem. i used to download .gdtf files from gdtf-share.com, upload it to fixtureshare.malighting.com and have it converted to .xml files to use it for MA2. everything worked fine a while back. but strangely, everytime i try to convert a file now an error message pops up which you can see in the attatched screenshot...and that happens with any .gdtf file which i try to convert...

Rikurama thank u !

Ryan Kanarek hey ryan, i tried the thing with the programmer part and that is the solution...BUT i swear i have never touched the programmer parts window and entered a strange cue number like that. and what i have never noticed is, that if you create a programmer part and store your active values into a cue, that every following values you enter into the programmer automatically get moved into the same programmer part...

i thought of it as if you create a programmer part and store a cue, the programmer part gets a reset and has a default programmer part ready for your next values...that means for example, you create a programmer part 77 manipulate some values, store cue 1 part 77 and after that you CLEAR YOUR PROGRAMMER and you put something into the programmer and its part 0 again, except storing presets from a pool which has somethig different than default cue part 0 defined. maybe that would be an idea for the next software update, that you can choose if the latest created programmer part stays or if it gets set to a specific user defined programmer part.

Ryan Kanarek hey ryan, sorry for the delayed answer. i have my days off now and the show file where this strange cue part happens is saved on a computer at work, to which i do not have remote access to. as soon as i am at work again, i'll try that out and let you know. thank you for your help.

Andreas i have tried your syntax it works fine, thank u for that! the only thing which doesn't work seems to be:

remove delay attribute "Tilt" for example. it always puts the "remove" value in all attributes somehow...

Clintos hmmm i guess u will have to build a sequence which loops between 2 cues, with individual delay times for the fixture to be on/off.

strange...maybe i'll have to make a new show with 1.7...

Andreas thank u, i'll try that tomorrow at work! and I am on the newest software version and i when i have a relative circle running, and i modify the absolute layer on tilt, it always activates the relative layer aswell(while being in the cue where the relative circle is running)

hoss the MA3 software ultimately needs the possibility to filter relative/absolute/time layers. if i remember correctly, there once was a button without function where you could choose between relative/absolute layers in an early software version...i don't understand why they have not implemented such an essential function yet...same for times...but hey, what is the "value" toggle button in the AT filter window good for?

hoss on delay/fade works and you could combine that with the AT filter for specific attributes, but when you store /remove it, the absolute value gets removed as well, thats why you have to give it a remove value and merge that. its the same as effect layers in MA2 have changed. if you just activate your effect layer in MA2 and store /remove it, your value layer gets removed aswell...

Candela not in MA3. that is my biggest problem with MA3. no possibility to assign a filter at preset pools, which filters relative values/individual fade/individual delay...so i always have to remove that manually if i used any or all of it in my sequence and want to store presets. one example:

my fixtures point at the wall and run a relative P/T circle. so i have 1 preset called wall which contains absolute values and one preset circle which contains relative values. i save that as cue 1. now i move my fixtures and make them point at the floor while continuing executing the circle. so i change my absolute TILT value, so that the fixture point towards the floor and i save a preset into my position pool. what i get is a combined preset containing absolute and relative values. but i just want to have absolute values in my floor preset. so i created a macro which assigns a remove value to my PAN/TILT preset and then i manually update the preset to get rid off the relative values...here is a screenshot of my macro. and the same problem comes with individual times...

hoss that is why something like at remove featuregroup(encoderpage) 2 thru 8 but for the delay/fade layers would come handy...

hoss the problem about that is that you can only choose "link single"/"link feature" for layers, not "link all active"/"link all" like in MA2...so it is very time consuming to do that for every feature manually...

hey folks, i often have to remove individual delay/fade times from many attributes of fixtures in cues and it is very time consuming to do that manually. is there a way to do it via cmd line. so that i can create a macro. thanks in advance!

here are screenshots of what happens...

Ryan Kanarek can you please have a look at these screenshots?! as i mentioned, if you "assert" cue 2, so that tracked values turn into hard values, the fixtures execute a weird big movement just to regain the relative circle movement again, instead of stomping the relative circle and pointing straight at the wall...

you can put dim=0 thru 100 into your first phaser step and dim=100 thru 0 into your 2nd phaser step, phase=0 and you've got your bounce dimmer effect.

Ryan Kanarek i get your point. never thought of that kind of workflow.

hoss i tried it with a different cue part, that works, because then the value is not a hard one anymore there... great idea!

thank u very much!

hoss i understand that something has to take precedence, but logically that should be the recipe, i think for at least 98 percent of users that might be their wish...

i have to try that, using an extra cue part, thank u for the tip.