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How to Make a Reminder Plugin for GrandMA3 Using Lua

Hey lighting folks! The following is the transcript from my YouTube video,  This Easy Reminder Plugin Will Change Your Life!! If you're new to Lua or need a refresher, I think you'll also enjoy my  Lua for GrandMA3 Tutorial  series. Please check out my channel,  From Dark To Light , on YouTube, and you can find the code to go along with my tutorials here on  GitHub . Ever been in the middle of a set and see something you can't change in the moment but need to fix before the next show? Have you made a mental note and just never found it again? Since real notes work better for me too, I found a way to set a reminder on the console and this one will jump up and remind you on its own. Hello lighting people, welcome back to my YouTube channel, or if it's your first time learning with me, I'm so happy to see you here. Today I'm going to show you a reminder plugin I developed so that I could set reminders for myself at any time while programming so I can get everything...
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Building Custom UI Elements with Lua for GrandMA3 Part 3 - A Streamlined Method

Hey lighting folks! The following is the transcript from my YouTube video,  Lua for MA3 Custom UI Elements Pt 3 - A Streamlined Method This video is part of my  Building Custom UI Elements with Lua for GrandMA3  series. Please check out my channel,  From Dark To Light , on YouTube, and you can find the code to go along with my tutorials here on  GitHub . Okay, how on earth are the built-in MA3 functions able to take so little information and make a functioning UI element that looks good every time, no matter how you've customized it? It's actually way more efficient than you would think and today I'm going to explain in detail how I've managed to make my own work, in my opinion, even better than MessageBox and so can you. Hello lighting people, welcome back to my short series on building custom UI elements. In the last video I showed you how to make them and where to find examples that you can use in the MA lighting folder on your PC. I hope you're fairly ...
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Building Custom UI Elements with Lua for GrandMA3 Part 2 - How to Make Your Own From Scratch

Hey lighting folks! The following is the transcript from my YouTube video,  Lua for MA3 Custom UI Elements Pt 2 - How to Make Your Own From Scratch This video is part of my  Building Custom UI Elements with Lua for GrandMA3  series. Please check out my channel,  From Dark To Light , on YouTube, and you can find the code to go along with my tutorials here on  GitHub . I'm about to show you everything you need to know to be able to build your own custom UI elements however you want them, to do whatever your individual needs are, rather than having to continue relying on the clunky built-in functions that don't always fit your individual use case. Hello lighting people, welcome back to my mini-series on making custom UI elements. In the last video I explained what a custom UI element is and when you might want to use one instead of the built-in MA3 functions. Now I'm going to show you the basic building blocks used in making a UI element and where to find the detai...
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Building Custom UI Elements with Lua for GrandMA3 Part 1 - What They Are and When to Use Them

Hey lighting folks! The following is the transcript from my YouTube video,  Lua for MA3 Custom UI Elements Pt 1 - What They Are and When to Use Them This video is part of my  Building Custom UI Elements with Lua for GrandMA3  series. Please check out my channel,  From Dark To Light , on YouTube, and you can find the code to go along with my tutorials here on  GitHub . What if I told you you could build your own pop-up box for MA3 piece by piece, whatever size, shape, and color you want, and make it easily reusable and customizable for each use case without rewriting the whole thing each time? And you don't even need a computer science degree to do it! Hello lighting people, welcome back to my YouTube channel. Or if you're new, I'm so glad you found me. Custom UI elements are an exciting and long-awaited topic, and I'm looking forward to talking about them today. This is going to be a short video series, just three videos, and today we're going start by talk...
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My Workflow: How to Approach GrandMA3 Software Updates as a Lua User

Hey lighting folks! The following is the transcript from my YouTube video,  My Workflow: How to Approach MA3 Updates as a Lua User If you're interested in Lua programming for MA3, I think you'll also enjoy my  Lua for GrandMA3 Tutorial  series. Please check out my channel,  From Dark To Light , on YouTube, and you can find the code to go along with my tutorials here on  GitHub . Hello, lighting people. Welcome back to my YouTube channel, or welcome to it if you're new! Today I'm just going to make a quick video to talk about what to do when updating MA3 as a Lua user. Of course, it's not really that complicated, but to help eliminate confusion, I'm going to walk you through the process I use when updating MA3. To start off with, I think it would be useful to talk a little bit about the workflow of how I use MA3 in general and Lua with it. I work part-time for a smaller campus at a large church and I run lights frequently, but I also have volunteers run li...
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Lua for GrandMA3 YouTube Crash Course

Hey lighting folks! The following is the transcript from my YouTube video,  Lua for GrandMA3 Crash Course This video is the "concatenation" ;) of my  Lua for GrandMA3 Tutorial  series. Please check out my channel,  From Dark To Light , on YouTube, and you can find the code to go along with my tutorials here on  GitHub . Hello lighting people! Welcome to my Lua for GrandMA3 Tutorial series. I made about 10 episodes of this series and there's a few other videos that are outside of this series and I'm about to be making some more that are going to be more advanced. But this series of 10 episodes kind of takes you from the very most beginning part to some pretty big stuff and I just wanted to assemble it as one video and basically remove the outros just to make it smoother. And if you are looking for a way to quickly just go over everything you need to know about Lua for GrandMA3, then please watch this video, it is absolutely for you. However, I do know that it's...
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