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In this Tips and Tricks, we’re going to look over the Triggers view to cover the generic properties that all Triggers share. Firstly, select or create a new Trigger, as shown below.   Each trigger is assigned the next available Number for reference as it is created. Trigger numbering is not essential, as the controllersRead more

Many jobs require lights to be active at the same time as an announcement or music. When your project is completed, and everything is all hooked up to Timecode, you want to make sure that your lighting doesn’t miss its cue. There are two features to help sync your lights and sound: Simulation Audio (availableRead more

Lighting design is often inextricably tied to daylight, twilight and dark. Whether it is an outdoor structure illuminated with ambient light in mind, or an interior space attempting to replicate circadian rhythm; planning and playing back lighting is all about the time of day, or where the sun is right now. To help you easilyRead more

Setting an override colour via a touch screen is a relatively simple task in Pharos Designer. You pick your colour on the colour wheel and use the Set RGB action to set your lights to match. This can also be easily done with sliders; one for red, one for green and one for blue. ButRead more

Designer has a number of alternative fixture selection methods on the layout plan view to allow for easier selection, as well as altering the current selection.   To see the selection method options, right-click in the space on the plan view (not a fixture) and you will see the following context menu:     The four selection methods are as follows:  Normal selection is the default selection method. Clicking a fixture or dragging aRead more

Melawati Mall in Taman Melawati, Kuala Lumpur had its façade transformed with an LED media wall that spans three sides of the huge building. Architects HL Design came up with the concept, and Nagieb Azhar of Lightwave Lighting Design refined it to a stylised design of spaced vertical columns of light across three of the mall’s exterior walls to maximiseRead more

The duplication wizard is a great time-saver for many simple fixture duplication functions, but it has a lot more to offer. So, in this Tips & Tricks, we will be covering the more esoteric features of the duplication wizard. Firstly, we’ll cover the Circle duplication method. This can be useful to create symmetrical circles orRead more

Fixture templates are designed to fulfil a certain niche where you have a repeating cluster of fixtures that are shaped and patched in a similar way. These are usually created out of individual fixtures, or strings of fixtures, but to enable simple replication and retention, these can be added into a template to be usedRead more

The Patch Navigator is a useful and powerful tool during commissioning if you need to find or identify a fixture.     Let’s imagine an occurrence where you, as the technician, are looking to find and select different instances of a fixture that you have patched. In the view above, you can see that thereRead more

When working with fixtures in the layout, there are many keyboard modifiers that have been added to make your life easier. Here’s just a few of our favourites. For the full list, take a look in Help. For starters, a useful tool to re-centre the whole layout and zoom-to-fit the entire layout is activated byRead more