
get a better look at them before you bring them in). These gobos will
import as textures. I have found that Rosco gobos work best. GAM
gobos show a ring around them which makes blending next to impossible.
(you can get rid of this line by dropping the template and then after it has
been dropped, reducing the beam angle by 2 degrees. Also, Rosco
gobos just seem to be more reliable when it comes to seeing them in the
renderings. Also, Colorizers do in fact work. You should experiment with
them. You can also create your own templates. Download a template
image from one of the template manufacturers websites or create your
own images. Make them 2”x2” with an entirely black background (the
only white should be what you are projecting). You create this by going to
Spotlight>Visualization>Ceate Gobo Texture”. You can also create
shutter cuts by creating your 2”x2” square in photoshop – fill it with black
and then select a rectangular or square, or polygon portion of it and filling
it with white, Light will only transmit in the white area.
d. The next step is selecting
the Gobo Projector tool.
(You do not have to drop
a regular spot light with
the Light tool and then
add a gobo to it—rather
you can skip one step
and simply drop a Gobo
Projector, which is the
physical light.) Once you
have clicked on the spot
that you want to drop the
gobo and light, a window
pops up that asks you a
number of questions:
(See Figure 8.)
1. The height that you want the light.
2. The Field angle
3. The focus point that this projector will be hitting. You can leave this as Next Click
(which I do ½ the time) or chose a focus point that you have already created.
Both ways are useful, depending on what you are trying to do. It might be useful
when creating a full pattern wash to drop the focus points first so that they can
space them more evenly. (This does make choosing a focus point for a gobo
projector more challenging though especially if you have many focus points
Figure 8.
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