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...and I'll add... further user configuration of the Symbol Key box:

- Ability to add colour to symbols in the symbol key.

- Ability to have multiple iterations of the same fixture symbol in the symbol key.

These two features combined would allow me to differentiate groups of the same fixture by giving them different paper colours by layer and then explain the colour coding in the Symbol Key.

Hi,

Thank you for your valuable feedback - we will take these suggestions into consideration for the next version of Capture. The plot symbol key coloring part has actually already been implemented.

- Option for Symbol Key to include fixture count e.g.:

Mac 700 (12)

Mac Aura (18)

I know I can add it myself by editing the custom text, but if I could just tick a box that did it automatically... that would be nice.

Hi,

That is an interesting idea. It does come with a potential complication though - you can insert numerous views showing different layer sets in a plot, and then add a symbol key - how is it going to count the fixtures? Globally in the project?

Yes, good question. I would have thought it would be more useful to have it count fixtures in the layer set used for the plot. If one plot includes several views, with several layer sets, then we need to be able to choose which layer sets each symbol key shows and counts. You might want to place a symbol key for each view, or one symbol key for all the views on the plot, or globally in the project - up to you. So basically we need more options to customise every symbol key we insert so that it will include one or several layer sets as you select them.

This would tie in with one of Hebbe's suggestions here, from 2 years ago, to be able to select the layer set for the symbol key. Basically, it is not easy at the moment to customise plots in Capture, so the more flexible you make it the better it will be.

Another thing I have seen sometimes on plots, and would be nice to have the option along side fixture counts, is fixture modes. eg

Mac 500 - Mode 4 (12)

Mac 700 - Ext (6)

This comes in handy when the crew are rigging the show, walking around with a plot in their hands, the more information they have in front of them the less questions they have to ask!

Thanks for considering these requests. Capture is a great tool and very useful. For me at least, the plot side of Capture is the area that would most benefit from some new features.

Thanks for your feedback - we'll see what we can do!

Hi Lars,

first of all, thank you and the whole team for your great work, I love to work with capture, live visualisation works really good, but plot creation can be sometimes Kind of tricky, so i have some suggestions for improving that.

- If I create a plot for a theatre with around 400 - 500 lights in the ceilling, by creating a plot after focussing all lights, sometimes the fixtures are really close to each other and are focused crossed, so in the plot the symbols are overlapping, so you can't see the filterframe-Information or the Focus-field, I played with the direction-snap property, and I would like to give values from 1°-180° so if you snap it to 180° on the plot all lights are either in front- or in backlight direction, so there is no overlapping. My work-around for this at the moment is to create two Scenes, one for the lights in home-position and one for the focussed lights, but it's Kind of heavy work if something changes during the work, beacuse you have to Change it in both Scenes.

- It would be great if there were an additional field for Special Information, i usually use the unit field to give some additional Infos, and for objects it creates a cool little box with the text in it so you can move it to a proper Position and everything is fine, if I use this field for a fixture it appears in the Symbol of the fixture, in a PAR64 there is enough whitespace to do this, but in a movinglight, the Symbol contains so many lines that you can hardly see the text, so if there where the possibility to have an extra field for Special Information that would be great.

- Next thing is, the most plots, are so crowded, so even if you have the scale and the grid on paper, the rigging guys often have to meassure the Position of every object by hand, I would love to have three fields where you can show the x, y, z - positions of the object, perhaps to Switch on and off per object or per layer, that would be good.

- I like to work with colors in the Plot, so every Layer gets another color, so on a big plot there are sometimes ten or more different colors, which is great for the symbols, but often on a white paper the brighter colors are difficult to see, ok for the Symbol, but the font should be in a darker Color, so would it be possible to have an extra font Color for every layer.

- would it be possible, to have an Option in the view, to have different font sizes for each shown field, e.g. the channelnumber is important so it should be 6pt but the wattage is not that important and to spare space it should only be 4pt or the.

I hope you understand what I mean, it's a bit difficult to explain something like this.

All the best Marco