SHOWTEC Explorer 250 Pro User Manual

FreeStyler Fixture Creator 4.9 Moving Head Tutorial Hopefully this tutorial will enable new users of the FreeStyler Fixture Creator to gain enough in

The“1stgobowheel”tab,emptyatthemoment,butwearegoingtofillitinnow.Noticethatithasthesameamountofrowsasthenumberofgobosw

fieldandthatonlythe“Backspace”keycanbeusedtodeleteexistingvalues.Noneedtousethe“Enter/Return”key,justclickinanewemptyrowto

The“2ndgobowheel”tab,emptyatthemomentbutwearegoingtofillthisinnow.Finished“2ndgobowheeldefinition”,noticethe3rotationspeeds

The“1stcolorweel”tab,emptyatthemomentbutwearegoingtofillthisinnow.Thisisthefirstpartofthefinished“1stcolorwheel”noticeh

Hereisthesecondpartofthefinished“1stcolorwheel”tab.Againnoticethesplitcoloursandvaluesandthethreerainboweffectspeedsatthebo

The“Macros”tab,emptybutaswasexplainedearlierIwillbeusingthistodefinethefunctionsonchannel13whichinthemanualisdefinedasth

IhavescrolledthewindowtotherightsoIcanseethechannel13columnandthepicturecolumnaswell.Ihaveusedavalueof0inchannel13and

Theabovetwoimagesshowallthemacrodefinitionsforchannel13accordingtothemanual.

Wearedoneallweneedtodonowissaveourfixturefile.Goto“File>Save”Youshouldgettheabovedialogueifyouhavenotalreadysavedit.

WheneverIcreateanewfixtureIalwaysexportitatthesametimetoensureIhaveabackupcopytore‐installifandwhenIupgradeFreeStyler I

OK, let us get started. Start the Fixture Creator program, there should be an icon on your desktop if you did a standard install of FreeStyler. You sh

So hopefully you have obtained a copy of the manual and have located the DMX Protocol within it. As you can see it has 16 channels and covers nearly a

Click into the “Fixt. picture” input box and then the picture is chosen from the list on the right hand side of the Fixture Creator. The name is pull

channel, it does not sound a lot but when you see it in action you will be surprised how big the jump is between each value, now using the other chann

The “Intensity channel”, otherwise known as the “dimmer” channel is on channel 16 and its values go from 0 to 255. Enter them as shown above. Some fi

While looking at the manual and this part of the Fixture Creator I noticed that the manual mentioned that the “Reset” was the same channel/value as t

Right now onto the gobo wheels, this fixture has 2 gobo wheels and one of them has rotating gobos. The first gobo wheel is the static gobo wheel, sta

Clickingthe“Channeldescription”tabbringsuptheabovescreen.SeehowtheFixtureCreatorhaslabelledeachofthechannelswithinformationfro