Attribute Grid

If you have patched moving lights in your show, the Attribute Grid will appear below the Fixture Grid. You can turn on or off the Attribute Grid display by using the Display menu, [S5] or the Fixture Grid Toolbar using this button: You can also dock a Second Window with just the Attribute Grid in it by selecting Second Window from the Display menu or selecting it from the [S5] popup.

The Fixture Grid shows that a fixture has more attributes than just intensity by displaying a red triangle in its upper left corner: The additional attributes can be seen in the Attribute Grid:

The fixtures are listed in rows and the attributes are show in columns. The first two columns are fixed, such that when you scroll the pane horizontally, you can always see which fixture is on which row and you can see its current intensity. The other columns will shift left an right if you move the horizontal scroll bar or automatically when you address individual attributes such that the one you are working with is visible. The column order cannot be switched, but you can size the columns by placing the cursor between two column headings, clicking and dragging. The column width will be persistent between show files as it is not saved in with the show.

When you select a moving light, the row in which it appears will be highlighted with a blue background.

Note:

Just by selecting a moving light, you do not Capture the individual attributes. They are still being controlled by cues and looks until you actually adjust their values. Check out the topic called Fixture Colors and Symbols to see what the different symbols mean.

The blue highlighted background shows you which attributes are available for that fixture. In the image above, you can clearly see that the VL1000 does not have a Color Wheel and the VL2000 Wash fixture does not have a Gobo Wheel.

The attribute bubbles at the bottom of the screen show you individual control of the various aspects of the selected attributes. Sometimes two or more of these controls are string concatenated into a full description of what the attribute is doing within a single column. The Gobo wheel on the VL1000 shown above is a great example. When you selected Gobo after selecting the VL1000, there at three controls that affect how the Gobo Wheel is going to behave:

The first bubble Selects the specific gobo from the gobo wheel (in this case Pinwheel). Adjusting the Gobo Mode determines how the individual gobos will behave (in this case, the gobo will rotate Clockwise), and the third bubble shows specifically how the behaviour is configured (in this case, it shows Revolutions Per Minute, but if the behaviour was to index the gobo, it would show the angle in degrees from the home position). You can read these bubbles from left to right like this: "The Pinwheel gobo will Rotate Clockwise at 6 RPM". In the attribute grid, it appears concatenated like this:

For more information on the relationship of control handles and attributes, check out the topic Abstract Control Model.