Sample Project - Tracking Mode - Retaining Previous Attribute Values Between Cues

[Mathieu]

When building cues on traditional consoles, you often use the tracking mode: an attribute keeps its value until another cue set a new value. This is handy to avoid repeating the same values again and again in each cue when the values don't change.

For example, if you set a light to blue on cue 1 and only want to change it to red on cue 10, with the tracking mode, you don't repeat the blue color from cue 2 to 9. Another benefit is that if you decide you want yellow instead of blue, then you only need to modify the cue 1.

To do this in Lightjams, you use the grid's precedence and increment the precedence for each cue. The precedence number is like a layer number in a drawing software, allowing to have transparent sections showing the layers under. Grids with a higher precedence can override some or all attributes of the lower precedence grids.

Configure your grids so that grids for cue 1 have a precedence number of 1. Grids for cue 2 have a precedence number of 2, etc.

Then using the sequencer pattern (a source moving to the right each time a new cue is activated), instead of activating only one grid, you activate all grids at the left also. In other words, when you're at cue 10, grids for cues 1 to 9 will also be activated.

You can look at the 2 samples projects. The tracking-mode-with-precedence project has 3 cues. Cues 2 and 3 override some attributes while the other attributes not targeted by the sources keep their previous values. However, there's a nice twist. The previous grids being still activated, that means the values aren't frozen like with traditional consoles. You can still see all your dynamic effects if they're not being overridden by higher precedence grids.

The 2nd sample project freezes the previous grids to achieve the result you get with traditional consoles. You do that by setting the speed of the previous grids to 0.