﻿There will be two areas that we're gonna need to modify in order to add color to our punt page.
First we're going to need modify our existing color palettes.
Now, because we've already added lighting,
we have several additional modified color palettes, that we're going to add laser to.
The second is, we're going to need to modify our actual color playbacks.
We've added several different playbacks on several faders, on our extra wing.
That we're going to go ahead and add some laser cues to.
My first step is to modify the color palette.
Now in my case, I have the default color palette
entries that came with the MagicQ console, in entries 1 through 10.
I'm going to ignore these.
Instead I'm gonna focus on entries 11 through 18,
which are my custom color palette items, that I've created for my fixtures.
Now my first step is to click on the include button on the console,
and then click on the cyan color palette entry.
I'll now click on the program button to see what all of my fixture settings currently are.
I can see what everything is set to for cyan, for all of my rgb fixtures and for my spots.
But come back over to the layout.
I now want to go ahead and click on the Pangolin BEYOND fixture group.
And then go ahead and open up the color palette again.
I can do this by clicking on the window or by clicking on the color button on the console.
Once there, I need to go ahead and set my encoder to the cyan entry.
This might require a little bit of fine-tuning depending on how
the color balance on the laser projector is set.
Once I have my color, I'm gonna go ahead and click on the update button.
Now if I click on the programmer,
I can see that Pangolin BEYOND has been added as a fixture for this palette entry.
I'll now click clear to clear my programmer and repeat these steps
for all the remaining colors in my color palette.
The next step is to go ahead and click on my playback button and see all the different cue
stacks that are assigned to the different playback faders that I have in my wing.
Now if I open up my cyan and red playback and click on view cue stack,
I can see the two cues that I have available underneath this cue stack.
If I go ahead and click on the include button and click on cue number one and
open the programmer, I can see that I have my general wash fixture set to red.
And my spots all set to cyan.
Now I want to go ahead and choose a color that's going to be appropriate for the laser's,
so in order to do that, I'm gonna use a handy program that I found online called paletton.
Now if I specify different kinds of color schemes, I can see different color suggestions.
In my case I want to use a complementary color.
I can see that cyan and red are part of this color scheme,
so I'm going to choose green for my lasers.
If I go to the layout this particular cue is already loaded into the programmer.
If I choose Pangolin BEYOND and click on my green palette item,
go ahead and choose update, I have now set this color for this playback.
Any time this playback is activated, it will go ahead and set the lasers to green,
with the red wash color and cyan spots.
I will now repeat these steps for all of
the remaining color playbacks that I have on my extra wing.
What I want to do now is adding the multicolored effects.
The first thing I'm gonna do is set up a lighting look by selecting my
front and rear pars and setting them to red.
And then selecting my spots and putting them to yellow.
Then I'm gonna select BEYOND and go into my color palette,
using the encoder for our color effects channel.
I'm gonna go ahead and find my red and yellow color effect.
Then I'm gonna go ahead and click on the playback button,
click on page two and record this into a playback.
Then I'll click on the set button and give the playback a name, red, yellow.
I will go ahead and repeat these steps and create a second playback,
for a blue, green color scheme.
And now when I look at this in Realizzer, I can see I have some nice multicolored laser effects,
that give a really big rock and roll look.
And now we have a completed page that controls light and lasers,
that makes it very easy for us to punt a show.
We have enough material on this punt page now,
with the different kinds of color palettes that we have, the different kinds of laser
patterns that we have chosen and the beam sequence that we have chosen.
That we can pretty much handle any kind of busking situation that we might run into.
This is by no means a complete overview of
everything you can do with the ChampSys MagicQ console, DMX and Pangolin BEYOND.
But if you need to get from zero to show ready in a very short amount of time,
if you follow these steps, you'll be in there, ready to rock and roll in no time.