Grand MA Effect - Flickering pendant light

[James S]

Hi All,

 

Just a quick request to see if anyone happens to have a pre-programmed effect for flickering (think of a scene in a bomb shelter with bombs falling overhead, a pendant light is swinging and flickering on and off).

 

A long shot but if anyone has a Grand MA effect programmed that will achieve this, I would be most greatful before I spend ages programming a chase to achieve the same thing.

 

Thanks

[GridGirl]

Does the light have to be on steadily at any time as well? If not, rather than doing it with a chase, build yourself a "flicker box" - fluorescent light starter in series with the lightbulb - and you'll get a true random flicker. If it does have to be on steadily at any point, you could build a switch into the box so you can choose whether the florry starter is in the circuit or not.

[woody74]

before I spend ages programming a chase to achieve the same thing.

Maybe I'm just lazy, but how long could this really take? Even with something as chase un-friendly as an ETC Express, I could knock out something in far less than "ages"...

 

-w

[Frag_Me]

The "Dimmer Random" effect, with a bit of tweaking, might do as you require but you will probably find it easier just to make a chase - it shouldn't take more than about 10 minutes to knock one out.

[James S]

Thanks for the replies. Looked at the various options and ended up just putting together a chase with several dozen different scenes with a few variations of values and by setting the speed to high/ selection to random.

 

GridGirl - Thanks for the suggestion. Did not have the time to investigate further but sounds useful for the future. I will endeavour to add that to the list of projects to attempt.

 

FragMe - I spent quite a while trying to refine the "Dimmer Random" but could not really get it to produce the desired effect for some reason.

 

Woody74 - "Ages" was over-exaggerating it somewhat, of course it did not take long at all. Thanks for your help.

 

 

Thanks again.