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Here are the necessary steps to have the MLD control pan and tilt for a number of
lights to follow two performers, all of the other DMX channels being controlled by a
lighting board:
1. Install your hardware and software as described in chapter 1.
2. Calibrate the tracking system and your moving lights as described in chapter 2.
3. Calibrate your moving lights as described in chapter 3.
4. On the main screen of the software, make sure the "Tracker 1" check box is
enabled.
5. Draw a large rectangle over the whole "map editor" with the "Region tool".
6. Click on the "Layer Media" option.
7. Click on the lighting fixture that you would like to become a followspot for
tracker 1.
8. Click on the "Make Followspot" button and press OK.
9. If you want other automated follow spots for tracker 1 repeat steps 7 and 8,
otherwise press OK to return to the main screen.
10. Click on "Save" to save the map. Give it a name such as "follow1".
11. Click on "New" to create a new map.
12. On the main screen of the software, click to enable the "Tracker 2" check box and
disable the "Tracker 1" check box.
13. Draw a large rectangle over the whole "map editor" with the "Region tool".
14. Click on the "Layer Media" option.
15. Click on the lighting fixture that you would like to become a followspot for tracker
2 (make sure this is not the same fixture that you chose in step 7!).
16. Click on the "Make followspot" button and press OK.
17. If you want other automated follow spots for tracker 2 repeat steps 15 and 16,
otherwise press OK to return to the main screen.
18. Click on the "Real-time tracking" option.
19. Using the dialog box that appears, save maps and relations, giving a name to the
map, such as "follow 2".
20. Click on the "Add map" button, choose the map that you created in step 10, i.e.
"follow1", and press "open".
21. Press the small number 2 box that is on the top right of the screen.
22. Press "Go"
NOTE: For both examples above it is assumed that the lighting board will control all of
the DMX channels for the chosen lights except pan and tilt. Make sure that the board
sets these to suitable values, particularly dimmer and gate controls, or no light will be
seen.
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