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Conditional Abstract Attributes
Automated lights are riddled with control parameters. In earlier days, many fixture
manufacturers combined DMX512 channels to achieve separate effects in an
attempt to prevent the fixture from consuming an outrageous number of
channels. A common practice is to use one channel as a mode channel to modify
the behavior of another. This makes life difficult for the lighting programmer as
he never knows what a handle will do without first checking the state of the mode
channels.
Natural Language Control eliminates this need for reference by not presenting
you with controls that are ineffective on one channel because of the state of
another. The Control Task separates the tools into one of four attribute families:
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Intensity (amber colored tools)
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Color (purple colored tools)
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Position (green colored tools)
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Shape (pink colored tools)
The various tools in the Control Task allow you to adjust attributes without the
fear of inadvertently affecting the function of another channel. Furthermore, the
Attributes tool, which is common to all attribute families, labels each control