hi guys it's Gordon here at Avolites and today I'm gonna go through the next phase of working with
the pixel mapper after we have edited and made our group layouts like I mentioned inside the group
layouts video the group layout is saved inside these group handles that we have to tap group
and select this particular group on our group hard key and then tap Edit layout we should now
see a nice layout the same way that I have the fixtures inside my rig now you can see that I
have selected these beams and located them and I'm in a good place ready to start using the
pixel mapper I'm going to tap on soft key D shapes and effects and then tap on soft key B the pixel
mapper here I have another chance to edit the group layout but I'm going to choose this top
softkey soft key A create effect now what's going to happen is it's going to load the pixel mapper
on the left hand side we have four layers each one of these layers we can choose a particular
colour I'm going to select layer 1 and then say choose red if I want to add something to this
layer what I can do is I can tap the add symbol on the bottom corner of this section of the screen
the console will then show if what elements you'd like to use so for this particular video
I'm just going to use a block now that I have this block selected underneath I have custom options
specifically related to this block so I can make it smaller and taller if I choose this layer then
I have custom options relating to that layer if I would like this block to do something then I can
select this block on the left hand side press an add symbol with an element selected in the pixel
mapper it will by default load up the animations that we can choose for this particular block if
I choose this linear movement action then you can see that this block is moving in a linear fashion
to adjust this block I still can by selecting the block on the top left hand side and I can
move this start position this black Sun icon in the corner near the add symbol means that it's
going to set all of the color values to 0% inside the fixtures that I am creating an effect on so
that I would just see the pixel map effect that I have made now if I close this window you can see
this block moving on my lights I can load up the workspace window of effects editor anytime I want
when this pixel map is sat inside the programmer to be able to move and change this effect if I
don't like one of the things that I have made inside the pixel mapper what I can do is I can
select that particular thing and put it in the bin using this bin icon here if I want to add
something else for this block to do instead I can still tap that Add button and I can say add
a rotate you can see that that block is now rotating across my lights here and if I want
to record that onto a playback I can as always record by channel fixture or stage onto a playback
now you can see anytime I fire this play back it's going to have that block one
final thing that I will show you is if I work with a couple of different layers
I'm going to follow the same process again but with the pixel map but you
can do it out of sequence if you'd like so you can see I've already put
something in that layer I can then choose what color I would like that layer to be
I would like this swirl to rotate I then like on layer 2 there to be a blue swirl rotating
so my swirls are different sizes I can grab that swirl even after the fact as
soon as I've grabbed it on the left-hand side I will have those custom options
and here you can see I have made three different effects all using the pixel
mapper and I can rotate each one of them any number of times so that I can get just the
effect that I want now you can see that I have an entertaining three color swirl going on and
on my lights I have got that three color swirl happening but this time I didn't press that
black Sun icon so those locate instructions that I have sent those lights are still sat
inside them inside the effects editor I can tap that black Sun icon and you can see I
have this wonderful three color swirl going on same way recording it and now anytime I
fire this playback I will have that red block rotating anytime I fire this playback
I've got my three color swirl going on thanks for watching guys and tune in to the next one