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an issue that I am having is that shuttered fixtures (such as most color wheel moving heads) when no color is present then the gobo wheel is set to open (or white). The issue is that the fixture itself does not have a Black color like an rgb fixture has so during the effect the fixture stays on but in white.

For example in a knight rider scenario, the fixture is white when it should be black as the software sees it as no color, and bumps the red gobo in and out.

the work around is to add a second knight rider fx on value fx and time it at the exact time.

however that still leads the gobo wheel still has a physical time that bumps from red to open when technically the only color in the fx is the red color so you manually have to select all of the movers and override the gobo color to red. This is fine, but its not very repeatable, not expandable with the new feature, and would take some tweaking just to simply change the color of the FX.

Hello,

Thanks for raising this topic, is an issue that we have on our list of things to look into. For now, I will try to give some ideas for a workaround.

As you can see in the following video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZigSxR ... sp=sharing

- I have 2 types of fixtures, a generic Scanner with Colour Wheel and some RGB fixtures also.
- I add them all to the same Colour FX and activate a knight rider effect.
- I then add all fixtures to a Value FX, which runs the same effect engine as the Colour FX, and set up another knight rider.
- Selecting only the 2 Colour Wheel fixtures (Scanners), I then add the 'Dimmer' feature to the effect.

Now you can see that the Dimmer is being activated in sync with the Colour FX, which is creating a 'blackout whilst colour wheel moving' type effect.

This of course will not necessarily work perfectly with all effect types, but hopefully it will be useful in some situations!

Kind regards,
Will