Overview
You get a showfile with both plugins in it. Open it, run the Create Color System plugin, and you'll see everything the system does straight away. Export the two plugins from that file, import them into your own showfile, and build the color system into your file.
It's the same color engine that lives in my touring showfile, and the color half of the Type System punt page, sold on its own for anyone who just wants the color control.
What's in the box
Functions like an installer: it builds the entire back end the system needs. 8 color sequences with 125 labeled cues each, all the recipes, 4 MAtricks that handle color delay direction, all the control macros, and the whole thing thrown into a layout view as the playback GUI. One click.
The plugin that gets called every time you press a color button. It isn't meant to be edited. It just lives in your plugin pool, and the color macros call it by name on every push. It works out the right cues to fire from the control macros and pattern selectors. This is where the magic happens.
How to use it
CREATE COLOR SYSTEM, then edit
the first Lua item to reveal the script.CONFIG AREA. Those numbers decide where
everything gets created, so set them to pool numbers that are free in your show
and nothing of yours gets overwritten.You're free to move the sequences and macros around in their pools afterwards, but the appearances need to stay on the pool numbers they were generated at, or the GUI button feedback will break.
Make it yours
This is designed so you can easily use your own appearances. Once the script has run, replace the first 12 appearances with your “deselected” box appearance and the next 12 with your “active” box appearance. Click around the layout view for a minute and it's obvious which is which, and then the buttons look however you want them to.
Not quite a bug, but worth knowing: when you load the attached file the console may auto-import 15 default appearances that mess with how these look. Delete those before running the builder and everything comes out right.
Want the whole punt page instead? Color Brain is included in the Type System Custom Punt Page · get an email when updates drop.
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