How Droplit recognizes your lights

Step by step

1. Open your project in the designer. It reads the patch from SoundSwitch: fixtures, cells, channels, addresses and your groups.
2. Every fixture gets a role: wash light, pixels, moving head, effect or strobe (see Roles).
3. Groups are built from that:
   • All moving heads go into one shared group.
   • Your own groups from SoundSwitch are kept if all fixtures in them have the same role.
   • The remaining fixtures are grouped by fixture type.
4. Within a group, the designer sorts the fixtures from left to right as seen from the audience. It uses your 3D setup, otherwise the DMX address.
5. Check the suggestion once. For a new rig, “Getting started” walks you through it, and “What's missing” shows “Quick check: are your lights in the right order?”. If the designer already knows your fixtures from a checked rig, it takes that rig over and shows “Roles and order taken over from “…”” (see Taking over your rig in another project).