The BEYOND universe is a tool that allows you to create your own UI element with buttons, faders and more by utilizing parameters and objects combined with pangoscript to create your own custom tools.

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The BEYOND Universe Window

PangoScript Commands

PangoScript

This Universe Layout has a bunch of buttons built into 3 groups, that control the Cue Time Metro Shift, Doing pre-set flips for zones, and Effect Time Metro Shift. Designed to be upright and in the right tabs area.

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The buttons are part of groups, and the reset values are the default on buttons. This uses the default grouping tools in universe to achieve this, and then just sets the values as necessary for the buttons from the objects.

This tool allows you to pick colors for the first 4 color Channels, as well as built in buttons to set all channels to the same color, and preset patterns. It uses Color Channel objects, and sets their RGB values on click of the button.

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For the main buttons, they are parts of 4 groups so that when you change them it re-illuminates them, these visual FX on the main 4 rows are based on the built in tools.

For the Presets, the pictures are exported from the Quick FX grid. And they just set all 4 color channels values at once to the preset and not toggled.

This is an example of a Universe that would be built for the “UMAX” Feature where BEYOND is hidden from the user, and only this Universe page is available, giving the operator basic functions to control the install, but keeping them out of more advanced functions.

operator_interface.beyondlayout

The unique element here is the buttons use icon pictures instead of just colors or BEYOND icons, however these generally just trigger starts of timelines, stops, and some DMX functions tied directly to DMX Channels.

This simulates a UI of an MA executer bank, just showing how you can lay things out in any way you want in this system.

ma_executer_simulator.beyondlayout

This Layout is very simply laying a zone on top of either a picture, or a video file from the timeline to simulate mapping or Laser Augmentation of Video without needing any external visualizer or real-life setup.

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Johns Color Picker uses Just color channels 1 and 2, but adds extra functions like Swapping colors, Pastels, Monochrome and Saturation slider control of the colors direct from the layout.

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