How Do You Set Up a Moving Head Light in xLights?

Moving Head Lights have become a big thing of Christmas Light Displays,, Some of them do not come with a Custom Model for xLights, so we made your life easier and made this video to show you how to create a Custom Model for a Moving Light in xLights.
00:00 Introduction
01:05 How to get started
01:42 Starting with a 3D model
02:33 Changing the properties of the model
02:41 Testing before you continue
04:07 Finding the start position of the light
04:34 Adding the values from the manual to the model
07:15 Setting the Color Wheel and Pan Tilt values
12:22 Re-Naming the Channels
14:25 Testing
16:23 Closing
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[@rpra7392]

I just bought a cheaper 150w 12 channel moving head light and needed some help getting mine setup since my manual doesn't look anything like yours. It's really confusing as it says X and Y fine. Any helo would be appreciated. Thanks

[@kellenwilson8704]

Unfortunately this setup does not seem to work or apply to all beam fixtures. All works fine until you begin importing begin importing sequences and there are orientation issues immediately with certain fixtures. Could be just me but the more expensive Hydro Beams and Elation outdoor fixtures require tons of tweaking. This seems to work with the cheaper or lower end lighting fixtures.

[@LearnChristmasLighting]

Every fixutre is going to potentially have different orientation (And sometimes direction) of Pan/Tilt. It's not really correlated to cost. The Remap channels dialog in the DMX effect of xLights now allows you to offset or scale channel values individually, which can get you there :)