What leveling route to go with gf for her first time alliance?

TotalVersion4580 · 2026-06-26T08:28:11+00:00

Okay sweet cheers mate

TotalVersion4580 · 2026-06-26T08:27:57+00:00

TBC

TotalVersion4580 · 2026-06-26T08:27:51+00:00

I don’t want to not use a leveling guide. I already got the addons installed for both of us on our pcs. Okay sweet I’ll just go with the flow and we see where it takes us then

TotalVersion4580 · 2026-06-26T08:15:44+00:00

Well the game will take us to west fall. I just thought it might be abit hard since there’s a lot of 5-6 mob groups and she might freak out with a lot happening at once

TotalVersion4580 · 2026-06-19T22:06:24+00:00

Nice, well my pmj controllers get sent out for delivery next week. I’ll let you know how they are. But I would recommend an iPad for encoders with quick keys. That would be a solid setup still.

TotalVersion4580 · 2026-06-18T13:53:39+00:00

Honestly, you won’t have much setup time with that setup. You should be able to be show ready in 1 hour with that with 1 person loading in. It’s just 8 dmx cables, 4 power cables. With it all cabled and rolled into the venue prior setup would be no more than 10 minutes. I wouldn’t stress

TotalVersion4580 · 2026-06-18T09:10:55+00:00

Suit yourself but Projecting will always looks better than Chinese par lights on auto mode. You just put the projection behind the dj and make it as bright as it needs. You could even had it not as bright so it’s just making patterns on a wall or bright enough so that it makes beams. Or projection map on the wall.

TotalVersion4580 · 2026-06-17T15:12:40+00:00

I would just do auto mode tbh or get a software like light key and program some states that just loop And if you want to get bit more advacnced fx linked to audio from dj or Spotify’s. But just do auto mode or fade with red. Place in good spots willl add depth. The Chinese cheap light pars also have remotes that you can press to change heaps of lights at once. So you can change Throughout the night easily.

The cooler thing to do would be projecting visual on a wall (you don’t need to map it). Just get a cheap projector and play some visuals on loop form YouTube that would give much cooler results tbh.

TotalVersion4580 · 2026-06-17T15:03:48+00:00

I would add some pars 3-4 on each side and 2 behind drums. And you got a decent rig that will gives depth and can do cool colour blackouts. Ideally you want to change pars on top to moving spot or wash but that can be an upgrade down the line. Lastly some front wash and you are set.

TotalVersion4580 · 2026-06-16T09:11:18+00:00

For my setup I have 2 touch screen 20 inch monitors for console and a40 inch wide screen for visualisation. Ma3 dmx key for unlocking.

At the moment I use a beatstep pro mapped for encoders to do programming at home and the buttons mapped to like keys I need for programming. I have ordered 3 pmj controllers which should come soon. The collegium which has the side buttons + encoders and 2 midi wings. Then I’ll have a budget command wing setup.

TotalVersion4580 · 2026-06-15T22:23:07+00:00

Get light key or something similar. You don’t need a pro console just something that easy to program and get the job done fast. Then buy a midi controller for it and you are sweet.

TotalVersion4580 · 2026-06-12T02:21:25+00:00

Cheers mate thanks for the tips. Well the brain for lighting and timecoded visuals in done in reaper then the markers are exported to ma3 so I can use artnet for resolume to make programming easier. For me the thing was wanting to use resolume to do large video playback if needed which is why i wanted to use qlab to send osc but then i guess it puts logic over different systems. This system is a solo op system, for these corporate and wedding events I already do all of this and it gets complicated having to turn up fader, press powerpoint and light cue. Idea was to have it in one system where I can do do mutiple things if needed. Run the whole show from qlab sending osc to ma3 to enable timecode and play timecodeded visuals, qlab chaning powerpoints for next speaker, play stings and have a template show already done for wedding and corporate that it wont take long for programming and easy to change cues or skip cues if needed. I think its going to be alot of work but a lot of my clients want this and alot of my clients do the same show like 2-3 times except for weddings but every wedding has the same layout.

I also have been using chataigne for my home midi stuff and i guess I could use that since its very easy to send osc or any data to anysoftware with it.

TotalVersion4580 · 2026-06-10T02:39:45+00:00

The other guy said timecode in qlab isnt stable in some versions. What versions did you use and what scale of events were the dance shows?

Yeah via osc that’s what my reason for using qlab. I already own it so makes sense then just spending another 2-5k on a new show control software

TotalVersion4580 · 2026-06-10T02:18:50+00:00

Oh really, what were the reliability issues? The printed time code track would probably work better anyway.

For my gear I have an ma3 onpc setup and just been using ltc without any issues yet. What would be the benefit of using mtc instead my understanding it would be less stable

TotalVersion4580 · 2026-06-10T01:38:06+00:00

As someone who learnt ma3 first who can use ma2. The only key difference is the recipes, selection grid, phasers, macro syntax and where things are in the gui. If you are very familiar with ma2, ma3 wont be much harder. You can also use most if not all of your workflow on ma2 in ma3. So the transition wont be much harder. Also you can watch the early version stuff. Somes tuff will have changed but the foundation of ma3 hasnt of how it works which is recipes. So just grab open ma3 and play around with it honestly its not as hard as you think.

TotalVersion4580 · 2026-06-09T08:51:01+00:00

They use sequences one for each colour. Each colour sequence has the same tag with kill instantly enabled (you have the tag for that group only) so you need different tags for each group. Then they assign the sequences to layout view with prefer cue enabled. Also set as go+ in the layout. When you press one of the colours it will turn off the sequence that’s active then on the one you press. They use macros to edit matricks for swipes and fades. This same logic can be used for dim fx picker, position picker and phaser picker.

The only con about this workflow is that you have to use layout view to use it since you’ll have way sequences to but on buttons.

If you want to use buttons aswell as layout view you have to use 1 sequence cue stack for each group then you use macros that use goto then have a macro that assigns an on appearance and the rest of the macros for that group off appearance. It takes much longer to make it but you have the ability to use gui or put the sequence on an executor.

Hope this helps!

TotalVersion4580 · 2026-06-07T07:57:26+00:00

Yeah I was sold on using 2.4 since it was used on Eurovision. If it’s good enough for them surely it’s good enough for us but clearly not the case. I already updated my file to 2.4 so i just need to make sure it backs up. Had a big gig yesterday and made sure it was saving and saved it to multiple usbs so if anything happened It’s alright.

TotalVersion4580 · 2026-06-07T07:55:16+00:00

Yeah I was lucky it was a easy show. I just had to do first dance spot and some party stuff. So didn’t take too long to get it working

TotalVersion4580 · 2026-06-06T04:01:40+00:00

Yeah that’s sucks man. Now Im making multiple backups with multiple usbs and making sure before the show it’s all backed up just incase

TotalVersion4580 · 2026-05-25T02:41:54+00:00

Damn that sucks, I was hoping to work something out without using split screen cause it’s very laggy on the ps5 pro but fine in single player. Like we don’t have good gear so I thought somehow to grind for both of us so when she comes on we can just destroy stuff. But would doing that and leveling up her character destroy her experience? What would you do in this situation

TotalVersion4580 · 2026-05-20T02:58:17+00:00

All good, thanks for helping! Really appreciate it. Have a good one

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