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Title: Question about the DMX effect
Post by: nmiller0113 on December 06, 2015, 01:54:06 AM

There isn't any documentation on the DMX effect, at least none that I could find, so I thought I'd ask here.  I'm trying to setup a couple custom channels to trigger events in the Falcon Pi Player.  So I have a couple questions:

• If these two channels are 100000 and 100001 what is the relation of the channel numbers in the DMX effect?  Is equating channel 1 to channel 100000 and 100001 to 2?
• What is the difference between the two different types of tab settings?  One says ramp, and I'm pretty sure I know what the ramp is, but not sure what that setting would do to a ramp?  Is the first setting for intensity?  Maybe someone needs to explain what ramp means just in case I'm thinking about it incorrectly?

Thanks everyone!

Title: Re: Question about the DMX effect
Post by: Gilrock on December 06, 2015, 07:07:46 AM

The channels are going to be offset from wherever you define the model.  So if you create a model for a DMX device at channel 450 then the channel 3 slot will control channel 452.  The purpose of DMX is to output a value between 0-255.  The tabs are for using a start DMX value and an end DMX value.  Effects have a duration so it would ramp between the start and end values during the duration of the effect.

Title: Re: Question about the DMX effect
Post by: nmiller0113 on December 06, 2015, 11:20:43 AM

Thanks Gil!  That explained it perfectly.  I now completely understand.