So they are correct? Or if you mistyped and the are reversed, this video should have solved your issue. Let me know please if it did not solve that issue.

@@CalebHoernschemeyer solved it. thank you

Hey Tom! Sorry I got away from this channel for a bit. Thanks for the feedback! Next project is to get a marketplace running where people can sell these fixtures. After that, I want to continue on multi cell fixtures and tour - prominent movers. I can look into the Robe T1.

Thanks!

Hey Patrick! Thanks for the compliment, you got my head spinning with this one! Luckily I have a travel day today so I can plug my brain into this because I see it’s a very needed step! The simple answer is to multiply your RGB output variable by a delicately tuned vector lower than 1,1,1 to get a color output that looks the same, but getting there is a different story. I have a model being built in my head though. Thanks for the topic, I’ll make a video on it once I get it figured out, until then, I’m gonna “live update” my research on my Discord in the community support channel. Once I reach a solution, I’ll certainly let you know! Until then, cheers and happy creating! What you’re doing sounds like a really cool project that would produce some neat results!

Hey Patrick, ive thought about this one. Definately sounds like something id want to make a video about. Please note this method is not tested, only ran through in my head for a few days. The amber and white cell methods are tested, but not color transforms. My method would involve needing an RGB sensitive color meter, which are pricey, or a good eye for noting RGB Values, in addition to a color accurate monitor. I dont beleive a traditional color temperature meter will work for dialing RGB Values. 1. Getting the real fixtures RGB Values with the RGB values at full, no other cells. Lets call this "Fixture RGB" 2. Get the real fixtures warm white cell temperature, then the cool white cell temperature. Lets call this "Fixture CW" and "Fixture WW" Now we find how to make those colors in UE5. 3. In UE5, adjust the RGB values to the same color temperature as the real fixtures RGB values at full. You would want to use the color accurate monitor to get these values, if possible. Note for method of displaying: When color matching your UE fixture to your real fixture, you may find the fixtures RGB Vector is very close to "Fixture RGB" From the color meter. 4. Upon finding a UE5 RGB mix that is similar to your fixtures RGB Values, record that value and store it to a variable vector "RGB Transform". 5. Include a step, after setting your "RGB Output" Vector, where you get your RGB Output, multiply your RGB Output by your RGB Transform, and (with an if statement here) to set your RGB Output to the new transformed value. This gives a more accurate value for the RGB Values. Adding a "If statement" with a boolean "isUsingRGBtransform" to your event pin that goes into the spot indicated above, and running that true pin to the Set RGB Output node just described, will allow you to optionally use the transform. You may need this for studios for fast and trouble free calibration. For your White cell values, I would follow a different process. 1. Set up your RGB channels as normal. (Disable the color transform we just created) 2. Create a linear color that represents your fixture Warm White and Cool White. Right click the pin and split pin structure to give you RGB values. Recombine these values to a vector. You now have two more key features, your 'CW RGB Mix' and 'WW RGB Mix' 3. Run those color pins out to a multiply node. Multiply it by the normalized channel value on theWW and CW channel. (So it accepts 0-1 range, not 0-255. If its 0-255, divide by 255 first.) This is your vector 'CW Output' and 'WW Output' 4. AFTER YOU MULTIPLY RGB OUTPUT BY YOUR RGB TRASNFORM (NOT BEFORE): Add your CW Output, WW Output, and RGBoutput together. If all cells are up, this will give you a value close to 3, 3, 3, so this added value must be divided by 3, and your light brightness must be multiplied by 3 from what it was currently. 5. Set your added and divided RGB Value to Set "RGB output", overwriting it again. Now you can continue with your development process, and any flaws in real world lights you are using to light actors are replicated in the virtual world. To take this one step further, Unreal lights turn at a 1% intensity, while real world lights usually do not. To replicate this, include another step where you find what DMX Value the real lights turn each R, G, or B value at, and then subtract that value out of 255 from the initial channel value. This value would need to be added to the color transform, since if it werent, the transform value at full would be missing the brightness at which the cells turn on, which is not accurate. Hope this helps! Follow me on discord for more information about UE DMX! Im going to put this method up for discussion and for the community to see. I would love to see some photos of your studio posted up on the showroom chennel! Link to discord: discord.gg/q9tbcUPRGR

Thanks mate! Appreciate that! I put a bit of time into this one and am glad to see it still helping people out :)

Thanks for the feedback! I haven’t messed with the sculpting tools in unreal as there’s so much more to focus on, and I don’t really want to learn another modeling software if blender can do what I need. I would like to change meshes in real time and unreal engine without using materials, but that’s for another day. Appreciate the feedback! I haven’t tagged this video up with it, but I have a discord server if you want to show off or talk about visualization or ai tech! discord.gg/vHbEsXYRq9

Wow, I’ll try that out, thanks for the tip! Just yesterday, I turned all of my materials to emissive white and baked the texture, unfortunately, that only gave me White where I had UV laid, and didn’t explain the outlines at all. Perhaps this will help better. Thanks!

you are very welcome@@CalebHoernschemeyer As I am also learning Blender and Unreal in parallel I am very thankful for you sharing some insights into the #DMX and lighting topic :)

@@pixelasmof course, always like sharing what I’ve learned. Keep up the steady learning and visualize away!

Thanks for the feedback! To do that, I would not press Ctrl R at all, and leave the mesh a square, and instead create a cylinder to use to cut into your mesh. Bevel the end of the cylinder so that you get a beveled cut. Use an array modifier to evenly space eight, or pixel count, of those cylinders centered to your fixture. Drop your cylinders into your rectangle Use the Boolean modifier on your box with the object being the cylinder. Make sure you apply the modifier on your cylinder before applying the modifier on your body. Then, for UV unwrapping, view from the camera point where all of the lights are facing you, 2-D, whether that’s top right or front , and select the face with All of the Lights and under UV press project from view. Then, make one of those pixels white, bake the texture and follow my same method from there on

@@CalebHoernschemeyer Thank you for getting back to me! I was able to model the fixture and get it to work but I’m having an issue with the texture not being applied correctly and it makes the face of the light look very strange. Would you mind taking a look? I really appreciate your time and effort you put into this for everyone. My comment keeps getting deleted because it has a link but the Imgur page code I’m trying to add is GMcULrw

⁠@@Jacob6383I possibly can, email me at [email protected]

I’ve only had issues with TP link routers in the past

Thanks! I’m trying to get back to recording more on this but life gets busy 🥲 hopefully in the next few weeks I’ll have done time

Thanks for the feedback

You need to put the CITP texture on the emissive texture, it sounds like it’s on the albedo or base color texture

Hey there! If your getting that message inside of Touch Designer, you need to add “import cv2” to the first lines of code. If you find that in other codes, you’ll need to open command prompt, and or your desired terminal application, navigate to the desired root folder, and run “install _____”, but in the case of touch designer, installs are handled differently. If something’s is not installed in TD it’s tricky to install, but cv2 definitely is installed, and just needs to be imported in.

@@CalebHoernschemeyer Thank you! I corrected the import cv2 but the code is still not working as it says (-215 assertion failed) is there anywhere I can find all the code written out or another toe file to compare them? It’s really bothering me

@@MEGACHU-r2n I'm having the same isssue, did you solve it?

That’s on my list. Let me do that one before linking Niagara Particles. Basically you bake the lighting on only one cell. Then apply that texture with one cell lit. Peg it to full in materials. Adjust the UV coordinates with scalar parameters so that the beam slides over the other cells, then once they are set, covert those scalar parameters to constant values for performance. Then take the same texture object and sample it at all those UVs you just made, and set a parameter like “DMX Color 1” and incrementing, so that you can build a multi cell instance fixture in the patch, and build a patching profile. The node to get the demo values is something like “get normalized dmx matrix cell values”

​@@CalebHoernschemeyerI'll have to see if I can get it to work but thank you for the quick response!

I uploaded this video! It shows how I would approach multi instance fixtures. I think it should encompass this question.

Thank you for making the video! Ive found a solution but im interrested in how you approached it. Btw great job with the recent output, even after 2-3 years of rendered lighting in UE, you are still the first one to really go deep into it and explain it.

⁠@@ploetz9819thanks! I appreciate that! Excited to see where this goes. I have some wild ideas that I need help creating and this is the best way I know how to share that message and get a community buzzing. I’m Looking to create a discord or some online group meeting grounds soon. Thanks for being here!

Hey, sorry for the delay, do you have parameters connected?

Thank you, just made 2

Hey @Losavenger6, thanks for the comment. You can definitely do that, I haven’t done that yet but that sounds cool. If you use open cv to generate facial landmarks Reference those in a 3D space Place a 3D mesh in the shape of a face warped to the landmarks (not sure how to do this) Project the face texture to that mesh, And attach the crown or mesh to the face mesh, And place a render node and camera, that should get you in the right direction. It will probably take some modifications from that. Feel free to DM me

Thanks bro! Appreciate the feedback!

Just updated, thanks for the heads up!

Thanks mate! Hope all is well!

Good to hear! I have an updated video where you can do a similar thing without needing a rhino trial period or license.

@@CalebHoernschemeyer thanks…I actually purchased a copy of Rhino since it was so handy. I use a lot of broken up screens on my projects. So this has been a life saver for my pre-vis. Thank you for continuing to post.

Nice! Good to hear. My next chapter is going to be Unreal Engine and pre vis in there, and will eventually drift less into lighting and more about development in interactive installations that involve any visual outlet. Thanks for staying tuned it! I’d love to see some of your pre vis projects!

Hey, sorry it took a year to see this. It’s probably because of your processor, if you divide the load between 2 computers it will work better. Hope this helps.

I have, but not for MA3D. I’ll be doing a tutorial shortly on how to build custom fixtures for Unreal, I’d love to see how it’s done for MA3D. The beam is usually made by a square that can scale outward since its point of origin is centered, but at the base of the cube. The material has the same properties as water, where the more of it is in that pixel of vision, the denser (or brighter) that material becomes. Hope this helps. Sorry about the time delay.

Yes you do, and it must go through a network switch.

@@CalebHoernschemeyer Is the MA node only for Arkaos or does the MA Vpu need it aswell?

If I recall right, you do need a node or some MA parameters to make the CITP work to previs it, even with MAVPU. You can, however control MAVPU without parameters.

You don’t need the MIDI translator license, just the trial version. And that’s it except for cables!

@@CalebHoernschemeyer Thx for quick replay and its 60€ less for this to work....

Hi its me again I finally programed folowing your steps....when i try to load a project to bomebox and klik select.... Error loading project file. Try a few times no luck. Then i try for bome support and they wrote me back saying "In order to run a project file on BomeBox, you need the paid version of Bome MIDI Translator Pro as the free version does not do project signing." Can you comment on this please!

just figured it out, I was having the same issue. You gotta select the fixtures, click on the xyz arrows and then click on the mouse wheel. In fact once you click in one of the arrows it already appears the align menu

Thanks, that solved it. Just a note, in the video he says click down on the mouse wheel, but for me it's left click hold on the arrow then move the mouse wheel. Maybe my system mouse button assignments are different or something.

Under view, % Units, size as scaling factor, you can view the scale, if that’s what your speaking of. If it’s to get it to show feet instead of meters, that’s in your assets tab under GrandMA2, Properties, units, and then go to your properties tab. Sorry for the delay mate!

I am having the same difficulty.

@@Powersfilms I called them and they helped me out instantly, you put the node in ma2 mode and open ma2 on pc and change the IP within the software.

Me pasó lo mismo. El MA 3D no debe estar en la misma pc que está el media server (Arkaos o VPU)

Hola me pasa lo mismo, tengo el onpc y el 3d en el mismo pc y el arkaos en otro pc diferente, el arkaos versión demo y el onpc descargado de la página oficial sin más. Así podría realizar también la conexión y visualizarlo? O el arkaos tiene que ser con licencia y el onpc conectado a una mesa o a un 2pornode o algo parecido, gracias.

Use Arrangement tool in the upper left corner under Function, then set your arrangement type to circle. Unless, did you actually want to make your fixtures change their xyz position and move in a circle?

Thk u sir

Kinda, but that would take forever.

@@CalebHoernschemeyer do love your positive attitude in the video! It's going to be rough coming out of this. That's for sure.

G009 thanks for your feedback, If you don’t mind elaborating on where the contradictions are I’d like to know as Im trying be as helpful as possible.

Also if anything needs clarifying let me know. I’m more than willing to make an update, as this is my first “advice” video and I know there is room for improvement.