Clay Paky HandsOn - Manual (Page 31)

Handson Manual
14 P
ERSONALITY
F
ILES
Most fxtures difer in the way how they are controlled by DMX. Handson reads 'personality fles'
(sometimes referred to as 'profles') to determine a fxture's DMX traits. When you patch a fxture you
need to choose your fxture from a list of supported personalities (as described on page 9). This chapter
describes how to obtain additional personality fles in case your fxture is not yet present in our list.
14.1 G
ENERIC
Some types of fxtures typical have identical DMX traits. These common fxtures (e.g. Dimmers, fog
generators, RGB LED fxtures) are represented in the 'Generic' collection in our library.
14.2 R
EQUEST NEW PERSONALITIES
Clay Paky provides a free-of-charge service for creating personality fles on request. Please send the
request to [email protected] and include a link to the user-manual or DMX- chart of your fxture.
When you receive the fle from Clay Paky it needs to be copied into the following location, before
starting up Handson:
Windows XP
C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\My Documents\Clay Paky\Common\Factory
Windows Vista C:\Users\[username]\Documents\Clay Paky\Common\Factory
Mac OS X /Users/[username]/Clay Paky/Common/Factory
Ubuntu Linux /home/[username]/Clay Paky/Common/Factory
14.3 C
REATE YOUR OWN
Sometimes it is better to create your own personality fle, maybe you need it urgently and you're
outside ofce hours. Or perhaps you don't have a manual available so you would need to create a fle
through trial-and-error, testing it on the physical fxture.
For any of these cases we supply an editor for creating the personalities yourself; the Personality
Builder. It is an external tool for creating and modifying the personality fles used by Handson. The
Builder is supplied free-of-charge for all Handson users and can be downloaded from
http://www.claypaky.it .
For a detailed description of this editor please read from page 31.
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