Factory personalities
Green Hippo creates a default DMX definition of Layers, Mixes, Viewports and Timeline shipped with each software version called the factory personalities.
For a given software version current or older personalities will work. Do not use a personality of greater number to the software version
| Hippotizer Software Version | Highest Supported Factory Personality |
|---|---|
| 4.0.xxx | 4.0.2 |
| 4.1 | 4.1 |
| 4.1.1 | 4.1 |
| 4.2 | 4.2 |
| 4.2.1 | 4.2 |
The release notes detail changes to DMX personalities, with the full channel layout published in the appendix of this manual.
| Please Note: We strongly suggest using the factory personalities wherever possible, and editing them if desired. Creating a personality from scratch requires a significant amount of changes to avoid undesired behaviour. |
Compatibility with Lighting desks
Green Hippo works with various lighting desk manufacturers to ensure console definitions align with Hippotizer personalities. Where we have a known good lighting desk personality, we will share it on the software download site.
If you would like to share your desk personality with others in the Hippotizer community, please post it on the forum.
Channel layout in Factory personalities
The channel layout of factory personalities will appear somewhat random. (Keystone on layer for example in 4.2 Layer is at the end instead of with the rest of Geometry controls). The reason for this is an continued desire to minimise changes between versions. Each new feature or channel added to the DMX personality is appended to the end of the factory personalty.
Presets and DMX personalities
Presets can be recalled from DMX as a single integer pin similar to the media select pin. To use presets correctly however, always use a Hippotizer personality designed with presets in mind. To understand why, consider the following example: The DMX lighting desk could be telling the layer to be red, while firing a preset telling the layer to be green. The lighting desk has no information about what a Hippotizer preset will do, so the layer will get conflicting instructions. In this case, the layer would flash green before switching back to red. Hippotizer’s last-takes-precedence architecture ensures that the continuous updates of DMX always win. (This is also the case with changes made in Zookeeper; a fader moved in the interface will snap back to what it is set to by DMX).
To avoid this problem, factory personalities designed for presets are set to update only to ensure that a preset will take priority over DMX until further changes are made.
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