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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 ...

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...

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...