There are 4 ways to highlight the featured dancer automatically during their Canon cycle. It is a way to make them stand out from the other dancers and draw the audiences attention to them.
AutoGlow
AutoFade
AutoColor
AutoChat
Auto values have an IN and OUT value. The IN value is the value assigned at the BEGINNING of their Canon Cycle. The OUT value is the value assigned a the END of their Canon Cycle.
There is also an AutoOn and AutoOff for each of the 4 types of Autos. AutoOn enables and AutoOff disables.
For AutoChat use the [Groupings]–>[AutoCanon]–>AutoChatOn or [Groupings]–>[AutoCanon]–>AutoChatOff
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AutoChat may be the most powerful of the AutoCanons. It has the ability to send a start message on one channel and a stop message on the same or different channel.
This means that you could for starters:
1) Trigger external products action like a particle emitters, set rezzers, outfit changers, essentially any product that takes a command over a channel
2) Emulate the Artiste Performance HUD sending a command to an Artiste Palette to “move” or do other functions
3) Send a command back to yourself emulating the HUD sending an SD command to the SmartDancer Controller
4) Send a command to the Animesh and/or poseball
5) Send a command to the Artiste Relay, emulating the HUD
6) Send a command to another SmartDancer Controller
The AutoChat menu button allows you to send:
2 channels followed by 2 commands.
In my demo I sent: 123,456,PartStart,PartStop
These commands start a particle emitter at the beginning of a Canon cycle and stop the same particle emitter at the end of its respective Canon cycle.
I did add a custom script that looks for these values and starts and stops the particle effect upon encountering.
Sequencer example:
1,AutoChat,123,456,PartStart,PartStop | 0
2,AutoChatOn | 0.1
PREPFORM example:
1,AutoChat%123%456%PartStart%PartStop,AutoChatOn