[John Hillman]

Andy Sills: Assuming I’ve done this right, you should see the before and after images below. I am looking for an automated way to take the parallel light beams and “fan” or separate them out but a fixed number of degrees.
This will not be animated, it will be a still image. I’ll have a look into expresso

I did find a way to do what I want, and while it works great, it does take a couple too many steps (I prefer 1 step)
Grab all the objects, set their rotation to the desired rotation of the FIRST object, then put the following equation into the R.H field “x + (num * 15)”, which ADDs the index (starting at zero) of the each selected object multiplied by 15 to the existing rotation value. So the first object rotates by (0*15)=0, the next (1*15)=15, and the next (2*15)=30.
The only improvement I’m looking for is to not have to do the math in my head, a simple command to “fan objects by x amount” and have it essentially start from the center and work out, but otherwise I’m happy.

[John Hillman]

They are not clones, they are stage lighting fixtures, each fixture is several nested groups, with a light object nested in the head object (which rotates on the X axis), which is then nested in the yoke (which rotates on the Z axis), which is then nested in a stationary base.

The goal is to have each group of fixtures (between 4 and 8 usually) fanning out slightly, with about 30° of rotation from one fixture to the next, all on the yoke (Z axis).

So I want to grab 5x individual Yoke objects, and have some fancy way of telling them to spread out their rotations.

Please forgive the repeated explanations, I just want to be clear. Also, I hope I got the nomenclature right, I’m used to Architectural or Manufacturing 3D drawing packages.

[John Hillman]

Thanks for the response. I couldn’t seem to get that to work, none of the angles fit what I actually needed.
I did however find an answer to my question. I used a MoGraph Cloner object with a Plane inside if, to clone the plane to all the places I needed it, then applied my video texture to the Cloner, and was able to Fix the Texture to the Cloner object.
Thanks for the help!