Distribute uplights: all lamps with one click
“Distribute uplights” places all your uplights around the room at once, instead of dragging each lamp. Set the number of lamps and pick a pattern, and the rest happens by itself. A group is one DMX address: all lamps in a group show the same light. The number of groups comes from your patch.
Step by step
- Set the number of lamps with − and +, or type it in. Next to it you see how it splits across your groups, for example 22 lamps on 4 groups: 6 · 6 · 5 · 5.
- Not sure how many you need? “Suggested for this room” works from the free wall length at about 2.5 m spacing, plus one lamp per post.
- Pick a pattern. After a click, the 3D view shows where the lamps stand.
- In “Plan from above”, tap wall sections that should stay free. Tap again to release them.
- “Chase” and “Gradient” show how the pattern looks in action.
- Click “Distribute”. ⌘Z / Ctrl+Z undoes it.
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