See Your First Effect

Patch a fixture

A fixture is the software stand-in for a light. Patching one gives the app something to render onto.

1. Click Fixtures in the top toolbar to open the Fixtures workspace.
2. In the Fixtures panel toolbar, click Add fixture.
3. Click Select fixture…, pick Holodron from the Spectralite manufacturer group, choose its DMX mode, then click Continue to addressing.

4. Set Universe to 1 and Address to 1. You can also click the first cell in the Address Space grid on the right to set both at once.
5. Click Patch 1 fixture.

The Holodron now appears in the Fixtures panel list.

For the full set of patching options (multiple fixtures at once, address offsets, universe alignment), see DMX patching.

Add it to a mapping

A mapping arranges fixtures in space so an effect knows where to render each one. New projects ship with an empty mapping named Default.

1. Click Position Maps in the toolbar to open that workspace.
2. In the Mappings panel, select the Default mapping.
3. In the mapping's Fixtures list, click your Holodron to add it.

Watch it run

The Live View workspace opens with a Chaser effect already sitting on a Timeline layer at full opacity. Now that your Holodron is in the mapping, that layer has somewhere to render.

1. Click Live View in the toolbar.
2. In the Timeline, find the Chaser layer. Its Opacity ships at full, so drag the slider down and back up to watch the fixture fade out and in.

The Preview panel now shows the Chaser lighting your Holodron.

That's a working effect running end to end, from patch to render.