TIMELINES | SCENES | GROUPING | LAYERING | HUMAN CENTRIC DESIGN | VARIABLE RATE PLAYBACK | MANUAL OVERRIDES
Our intelligent Pharos Engine gives you complete control of your installation. Based on timelines and scenes, Engine lets you build dynamic, precise, fully customisable pre-programmed lighting displays, all while giving you the freedom of real-time manual overrides.
Scenes and timelines are the fundamental building blocks of programming in Pharos Designer. Simple in concept, these tools have the flexibility to create sophisticated lighting designs.
A Scene is a single look using selection of fixtures. It is a quick and easy way to build up the basic elements of your design.
A Timeline is an intuitive way to create a whole sequence of lighting effects that will run over a defined time period. Powerful programming options include fully customisable colours, a wide variety of effects, transparency, text, and pixel mapped video media.
Combined with the concepts of grouping and layering, scenes and timelines give you the tools to realise almost any design.
Fixtures can be placed into groups, which can then be assigned effects in timelines, for ease of programming. Each fixture can belong to any number of groups, giving ultimate flexibility over when different effects are playing on specific fixtures.
Multiple timelines and scenes can run simultaneously and are combined intelligently based first on user-definable priority levels and second on a principle of latest-takes-precedence.
Even when things don’t go to plan, Pharos still gives you the tools you need to stay in control.
Scenes and timelines can be started, stopped, or paused at any time. The playback speed of timelines can even be changed. Control this from any number of events, thanks to our powerful Pharos Trigger engine. Learn more about Pharos Trigger here.
Once you have your design programmed, Pharos Engine still offers complete flexibility with easy manual overrides. It is possible to independently control and change the intensity and colour of any individual fixture or group of fixtures.
Build fully customisable human-centric or circadian rhythm-based lighting effects with ease.
When using a real-time timeline, programming automatically resumes at the correct point, regardless of when the timeline is started. Astronomical waypoints take this concept one step further, allowing you to design your lighting around sunrise and sunset, treating them as fixed points in time.
