Request: "Follow Spot" Feature
Posted: 14 April 2014, 02:17
I think a great, seemingly simple feature to add to the SweetLight brand of software is a "follow spot" feature. By this I mean having a way to automatically adjust the pan/tilt values of a selection of multiple fixtures to cause them to face a single point. This feature is used to provide a quick, even wash to any location in an area. I've seen other software packages with this feature that require calibration points to set it up properly, however being a C# programmer myself, I would think it could be done with simple math...
Even huge companies such as the WWE who have many fixtures to utilize appear to create a nice wash with this method at their shows with only a few fixtures. This can be seen in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxE32yIAk7M&t=2m0s as their colored washes are always focused on the main performer. I think an automated way to accomplish this would be nice compared to simply mapping each light to a position in different steps within a scene.
Even huge companies such as the WWE who have many fixtures to utilize appear to create a nice wash with this method at their shows with only a few fixtures. This can be seen in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxE32yIAk7M&t=2m0s as their colored washes are always focused on the main performer. I think an automated way to accomplish this would be nice compared to simply mapping each light to a position in different steps within a scene.