To create a group:There are various ways of selecting fixtures which are common to all windows so it is worth covering them now:
The Browser is the most powerful and flexible method of selecting fixtures. Click on a group heading to select all fixtures within the group, expand a group by clicking on the plus sign and click on fixtures within to select individual fixtures and, with compound fixtures, expand them to select the individual pixels within. Fixtures and pixels are shown in red when selected.
Hold down Shift while clicking to select all contiguous groups/fixtures/pixels between clicks and hold down Ctrl (Apple on Mac) while clicking to select multiple non-contiguous individual groups/fixtures/pixels. Hold down Ctrl (Apple) while clicking to deselect a selected group/fixture/pixel.
Pressing Esc or clicking “in space” (anywhere on the Browser that isn’t a fixture) clears the selection.
The Browser also provides the interface to view and change the ordering of fixtures/pixels within groups. This order is used by the application to determine cue timing and effects skews, simply drag fixtures about within the Browser to change this order.
Only fixtures and pixels can be selected using the plan, to select groups you must use the Browser. Fixtures and pixels are shown in red when selected.
Shift and Ctrl (Apple) work with clicking as described above to select/deselect and you can also lasso fixtures by clicking and dragging around them, fixtures must be wholly enclosed to be selected.
Hold down Alt to select individual pixels within compound fixtures. Hold down Alt and Ctrl (Apple) to select/deselect multiple pixels.
Pressing Esc or clicking “in space” (anywhere on the Plan that isn’t a fixture) clears the selection.
With a single fixture selected, the Tab key will select the next fixture (next higher fixture number) and Shift + Tab will select the previous fixture (next lower fixture number).
Ctrl + A will select all fixtures.
Groups are an important concept to grasp as they serve three purposes:
Firstly, as you will see later, it is the rows of the Browser that make up the rows of the Program timeline interface thus it is convenient to gather fixtures/pixels that are to be programmed together into a group to simplify this procedure.
Secondly, as the order of fixtures/pixels within a group determines how programming and timing is rendered, it is sometimes useful to make multiple groups of the same fixtures with different ordering.
Finally, Groups can be used to set up intensity control zones in the Triggers window.
To create a group:Alternatively:
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