Fixture catalog: real 3D models and housing colors
The fixture catalog knows fixtures from over 400 brands, including Eurolite, ADJ, Chauvet DJ, Cameo, LightmaXX, Stairville, Betopper, SHEHDS, beamZ, Showtec, Varytec and U'King. For the main brands the data comes from the manufacturer; other models are basic entries with typical dimensions. For every fixture it has the shape, dimensions, LED layout and housing colors. The visualizer uses it to draw your fixtures the way they really look: a flat par in its bracket, a battery uplight, a bee-eye mover or a white moving head.
Step by step
- Open your project. The visualizer recognizes fixtures by the name of their SoundSwitch profile. It also recognizes your own profiles by the model name, e.g. “SlimPAR Pro H (my profile)”.
- Click a fixture. “Fixture model” shows the model, marked “detected”, “guessed” or “set by hand”, with fixture type, dimensions, weight and LEDs below.
- Change the housing color: tap the color, e.g. “white”. The 3D view updates right away.
- If the fixture comes in several versions, pick the right one under “Model in this series”, e.g. SlimPAR Pro H, Q or W.
- Completely wrong model? Tap “Other model …”, search for the brand or model and tap the match.
- “Automatic” discards your own model and color choice and brings back the automatic detection.
More from “Fixture profiles & rig”
- How Droplit recognizes your lightsDroplit reads your SoundSwitch project and builds your rig from it: which fixtures there are, what they can do, which groups they belong to and in which order they stand. You don't have to create anything by hand.Summary
- Roles: what a fixture does in showsThe role decides what a fixture does in your shows. The designer assigns it when it recognizes your rig, and if it got something wrong, you change it with a few clicks.Summary
- Roles & order: check groups and rolesIn the “Roles & order” window you check and change what the designer recognized from your patch: groups, order, roles, moving heads, positions and gobo mapping.Summary
- Taking over your rig in another projectA checked rig doesn't only apply to copies with exactly the same patch. If you open a project where your fixtures are patched a little differently, the designer takes over groups, roles and order from the most similar rig you have already checked.Summary
- Hiding fixtures you don't bringNot every fixture in your patch comes to every gig. If you hide it, it disappears from the 3D view and the floor plan, and in “Fixtures & stage” the shows leave it out too.Summary