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FC-4 Indiana Jones Generator Fade

Started by clinefx1, December 18, 2007, 11:50:37 PM

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clinefx1

I just got my FC-4 today and it's awesome.  I was wandering if anyone has written a program to simulate the lighting in the Indy ride at Disneyland? It's basically a run of work lights that are strung through a mine shaft that appear to be run off a generator that is having problems.  Something random, most of the time on but fades and flickers as if the generator is running out of fuel and about to die. 

Chris

JonnyMac

December 19, 2007, 12:27:21 AM #1 Last Edit: December 19, 2007, 12:29:37 AM by JonnyMac
I wrote some randomized programs to kind of simulate fire, but for what you describe above I would run a random loop that generates a small value, this will get subtracted from 255 (max brightness).  Then use the "P" (preset) command to set all lamps to this brightness with a bit of a delay in between.  One assumes that all lamps should behave the same if connected to the same generator.
Jon McPhalen
EFX-TEK Hollywood Office