Flyboy
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So I have been recruited to program a new LED floor installation at one of our neighboring casinos, and they want some dynamic effects. The floor is made entirely of 3-channel LED tiles, and the idea is that we are going to program the effects on our Road Hog, then feed the DMX stream into their controller (I haven't heard which model). Bada bing, bada boom. However, these floor tiles are arranged in columns of varying lengths, and are spaced irregularly (naturally). The designer wants color fades that will start at the center of the center column, then radiate up and down that column. Also, the effect needs to radiate from the center of the column outward (left and right). Lastly, each effect needs to hit a number of key colors in its sequence, which I wil have to be able to modify onsite.
I already suggested that the best way to accomplish this effect would be to use something with pixel-mapping capabilities, but nobody wanted to cover the cost. It has been decided that I will be using the Road Hog (which I can't even network to a visualizer) to build the wanted effects.
So my question is: Does anyone know any tricks or shortcuts to do this? The best I've been able to come up with would be a series of linked chases which incorporate preset color palettes that I can then modify onsite...but it would take alot of time to update any timing onsite. I thought about creating effects palettes that I could plop onto groups (columns) and offset them from each other, but it would take forever if I needed to update a color.
Or, does someone know of any extremely cheap pixel-mappers?
I already suggested that the best way to accomplish this effect would be to use something with pixel-mapping capabilities, but nobody wanted to cover the cost. It has been decided that I will be using the Road Hog (which I can't even network to a visualizer) to build the wanted effects.
So my question is: Does anyone know any tricks or shortcuts to do this? The best I've been able to come up with would be a series of linked chases which incorporate preset color palettes that I can then modify onsite...but it would take alot of time to update any timing onsite. I thought about creating effects palettes that I could plop onto groups (columns) and offset them from each other, but it would take forever if I needed to update a color.
Or, does someone know of any extremely cheap pixel-mappers?