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5. Shapes

This chapter contains: Selecting a shape; changing the size and

speed of a shape; spreading a shape across multiple fixtures; editing

shapes which are running.

Titan Mobile, in common with other Avolites systems, has a shape

generator (sometimes known as an Effects Generator on other

systems). This allows you to quickly create exciting light shows using

lots of movement and changes, with the minimum of programming.

A shape is simply a sequence

of values which can be applied

to any attribute of a fixture. A

circle shape, for example,

applied to the pan and tilt

attributes, would cause the

fixture to move its beam

around in a circular pattern.

You can set the centre point

of the circle, the size of the

circle and the speed of the

circle movement.

In addition to position shapes, there are a large number of other

shapes available in Titan Mobile. The shapes are defined for a

particular attribute such as colour, dimmer, focus and so on. Some

shapes will not work with some fixtures; focus shapes, for example,

can produce nice “focus pull” effects on fixtures which have DMX

focusing, but will do nothing on fixtures which don’t have focusing.

A further category of shapes is the Block Shape. This type of shape

blocks out other shapes, preventing them from running. For example,

if some fixtures are running a Circle shape, and then a playback is

fired which has a Block Pan/Tilt shape on some of the fixtures, those

fixtures will stop running the circle shape. This can be very useful to

modify playbacks at showtime when used with the playback priority

feature (see section

6.7.5 on page 77).

When you use a shape with more than one fixture, you can choose to

either apply the shape identically to all the fixtures, or offset them so

that the shape runs along the fixtures creating “wave” or “ballyhoo”

type effects. This is called the Phase of the shape.

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