Iāve updated my PC software to 4.10.1265 for pre-programming my next tour (I will update my NX1 after the next couple of shows with another band just to play it safe as it is a 4.8 showfile, not updating mid-tour).
I have a couple of bits of feedback from things I have spotted.
When cloning washes to VL5LED or to multi instance fixtures, sometimes the progress bar will stall (even when complete), and this will lock out half of the palettes, fixture selection, and make the software unusable until it is restarted (the licence notifier in the bottom left corner stays stuck in PATCH rather than returning to Live 128)
Colour FX - Sometimes the effects engine will not allow the āStompā effects to stop all colours, beams, pan/tilt. The effects engine feels a little ābuggyā at times compared to 4.8
Fixture selection - V4.8 used to allow intuitive selection for multi instance fixtures, v4.10 does not it seems.
Example on V4.8:
ā 101.0 THRU 108.0 would select just the main heads and not the instances (101.0, 102.0, 103.0 etc)
ā 101.1 THRU 108.8 would select just the instances and skip the main heads (101.7, 101.8, 102.1, 102.2 etc)
Example on 4.10
ā 101.0 THRU 108.0 would select 101.0, 101.1, 101.2 etc
Is this something that was missed? It was a really useful feature that would speed up my programming.
Hello,
Regarding the stalling of the commandline, we already fixed something that might explain this behaviour/bug, so please check again in the next update/maintenance release (probably in a few days).
Regarding the colorFX, I coulnāt reproduce anything. Do you have a showfile/example?
Regarding fixtureselection, is it possible that you are in RANGE mode instead of SLICE mode (in toolbar of e.g. fixture window). This is a global setting that the commandline will follow.
Is it possible to rollback installation to 4.8.1244 after updating BIOS, and installing 4.10.1265 on NX1? I have the original backup USB drive on hand.
(Not experiencing any issues, just want to get clarity before proceeding with the 4.10 upgrade.)
Hi there.
The slice/range mode was what was causing the selection issue. I did not know that was a feature.
Thanks for that Every day is a school day.
I think with the FX engine, it is when trying to use CMY FX Off on RGB fixtures, or something similar.
When using the VL5LED (in CMY Mode 1), for some reason it does not always clear the FX, and I have to go through the attributes manually.
I just made do for now, but just thought I would mention if it was an underlying issue.
If I have a lot of different fixture types selected running effects (Intensity, P/T, Colour etc), it does not always clear the effect, and not just on colour.
Running this version now, but I am noticing a problem with Dylos. Without touching any controls, playback of media content may suddenly freeze. At that point it also will no longer listen to any cuelists that switch contents in a Dylos zone. It will keep outputting the latest (frozen) state and the controls themselves are still operational, but de video āoutputā will just stay stuck.
Any other controls of the software, running of cuelists etc. unrelated to Dylos are still fine when thst happens.
The issue does not clear by itself. It is necessary to shut down Onyx and kill all Onyx related services from task manager. Otherwise the Onyx window will not show when restarting the program.
Also when exiting out of the software and deciding to restart the computer, the computer needs to wait for some Onyx service to quit. Takes about 30 sec on my Intel core i7 1135.
Hi to all!
Is the āLoad dmx outputā broken? because it takes all parameteres but not the fx?
Obviously also those are selected in the āloadā pop up window, can you check this please?
I just updated to 1265. Canāt wait to try it out. While on the 1263 I have seemed to encounter an issue with multipart cloning, where I would clone for example a bunch of cuepix onto magic panels. It would start then after a while nothing continued as if it crashed. But I was able to exit patch and save my file and close the software. Same issue happened on 2 different PCs and NX4
Iāve noticed the same issue on an NX4, NX1, and Onyx PC. The workaround Iāve been using is to disable the āgroupsā option during the cloning process, which seems to help. I should add that Iāve experienced this problem even when cloning non-multipart fixtures. Itās very strange.
Hello, got the strange behavior with preview button.
If I remember well the issue, edit a cue, change some parameter (PT), press preview to view the original content of the cue (cue is active), then press preview again, the programmer content is not used as dmx output.
I did not take time to write down the steps (Iām sorry) when I got it, but it was something similar, or maybe not the right order.
Thatās indeed a bug, and as rjlynch indicated, it can be worked around by excluding fixture groups from the cloning. The issue is fixed in the upcoming 4.10.1267 maintenance update
