Hey mate,
Alright I've just taken a look at your manual and the fixture online.
I point you to the post I made in this thread:
https://thelightingcontroller.com/viewt ... =13&t=5781Basically, the weird effect light nature of this fixture means you will never get it to display perfectly correctly in 3D view.
Since the fixture appears to be two separately controlled groups of 4 "heads", the best representation you will be able to achieve for this fixture in 3D view is two separately controlled moving heads.
Nelsound wrote:You mention the "multi-head fixture function", where is located? I am assuming that you do not mean the "auto select multi heads" option in the 3D view. And when you say "the multi-head fixture function does create multiple moving head objects in 3D view", should I be able to see the configuration of this fixture? (2 groups of four)
Yes I mean the auto select multi heads function. That will allow you to physically place the two lights closer together in 3D view. Place them right next to eachother in the 3D view and you'll get something like what you're looking for.
Nelsound wrote: Also, there is a snap to grid behavior I cannot seem to get around. No big deal on this but it won't allow me to align them evenly.
I have never had this problem before. Please refer to this video where I demonstrate using multi-head objects in 3D view to create what is essentially one big fixture. I can place the lights close together just fine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f58iumJBRngJust as a note, I made this video to help another user on the forum with a different problem, but it still relates to what we're talking about here. So when I'm talking in the video, I'm addressing their original problem.
Nelsound wrote: What I am seeing is that un-checking the auto select did allow me to move the single lights individually, but when I use the X fader, only one of them move.
Also again, which icon(s) can be used on this Duo Bar for the eight independent lights? If I leave them blank, (which puts a question mark on the operating channel), they all move at once. The best I could come up with is using 4 color icons and there sub color icons, which gives me my eight independent channels, but they start strobing when I turn any one of them on.
So this is all due in part to the fact that by looking at this fixture manual, 1) it is not very detailed and 2) the fixture profile is extremely unusual (again refer to my other post in the forum I linked to above). This means that you will sometimes get the "?" when trying to make very unusual channels.
Just to clarify, a more detailed manual would look something more like this:
https://www.robe.cz/index.php?type=1089 ... Spikie.pdf. These sorts of more professional fixtures provide much more detail, and also have more conventional fixture profiles. Cheaper lights like the one you have there unfortunately often provide very vague (in some cases, incomplete) manuals, which makes making fixture profiles very difficult.
Also to clarify, despite the "?" symbols, and the fixture not functioning properly in 3D View, the fixture should still behave exactly as desired in real life, even if it doesn't match up with 3D View.
Support should upload their attempt at the file soon. But again as I said, there is no guarantee it will behave as expected in 3D View due to its extremely unusual nature.