Project Properties

Project Identification

The project filename (*.pd2) and path is displayed for reference.

Underneath are two fields for optionally entering a project title and the project's author, these fields are displayed on the Controller's web interface home page and are useful for reference once the installation is completed.

If the title field is left blank the web interface will instead display the project's filename which may be useful for tracking iterative versions.

The Notes section is a good place to make notes specific to this project.

Logging into Remote Management service

Choosing Portal Provider

The Remote Management portal can be configured by clicking Edit. This will show a text bar in which a URL can be pasted. Many of our clients will have their own portal, in which case they will provide you with a URL, which can be pasted here. If the URL is recognised as a SixEye-powered Portal, the Save option will remain greyed-out.

Logging into a Site

Selecting Choose site will enable you to log into the Portal that is chosen above.

Once you log in, if you have Two Factor Authentication (2FA) enabled, an authentication window will follow.

You can then choose your Site, with all applicable Sites listed in a dropdown.

Controller API

API Version

The API Version setting will allow you to specify the API version that the project should use. If set to Legacy, this will use the older API (no longer documented in this Help), whereas if an API version is set, that API will be used:

Latest API version

Location

City or Latitude/Longitude

The location settings are used to set the location of the installation to ensure correct operation of the Controller's internal astronomical clocks. A city picker is provided to facilitate the coordinate entry but values can be entered directly into the Latitude and Longitude boxes, this information can be found online.

Time zone

The local time zone can be entered as an offset to GMT, for example New York would be -05:00 being 5 hours behind GMT. If the city picker is used to select the location then the time zone will automatically be set.

Daylight Saving Time

Check the Daylight Saving Time box to enable automatic DST adjustment. The rules for Daylight Saving differ by region but, if the city picker is used to select the location, the correct settings for that region should appear in the DST on rule and DST off rule fields.

Resources

The resources section allows you to specify which project resources are included when you save the project.

The resources will always be included when the project is archived.

Playback

Simulation Audio

Checking this field will add a new row to your Timelines. In this, audio files can be placed, which will then play when the timeline is simulated.

NOTE: This is not the same as Timeline Audio. This is solely for simulation use, and will not be uploaded and output by the controller.

Override Priority

Chose the priority at which to output Overrides (from the Set RGB action or from scripting).

These priorities match up with the Timeline priorities and work in the same stack.

To ensure that overrides are always on top of other programming, set this to High.

Setting the priority to a lower level allows the override colour to go below other timelines, which can allow the use of a transparency within programming.

NOTE: To match v1.x.x behaviour, set this to High

Layout Colours

Selection Colour

This is the colour used to highlight a fixture icon on the Layout, Scene or DALI Scenes Layout, when it is selected.

Accent Colour

This is the colour used to highlight a fixture icon on the Layout, Scene or DALI Scenes Layout, when it has been programmed or is being Highlighted.

Default Layout Properties

These properties will be used for any new Layout created after changing the properties and will not affect existing layouts (unless the Apply to All button is used). These properties can be adjusted on a per layout basis

Size

The Layout size can be set via the Width and Height fields (in pixels). The maximum Layout size is 8192x8192 pixels.

The "Snap size to background image" button allows you to set the layout size to be the same as an imported background image.

Background image and mode

You can set an image to be the background for a Layout. This may be a fixture plan to allow you to easily locate the fixtures within the project, or a photo of the project space to allow you to visualise the lighting more effectively.

The image can be in Bitmap (*.bmp), Portable Network Graphics (*.png) or JPEG (*.jpg) format.

Once you have added a background image, you can chose how it is applied to the layout using the Background Mode.

Actual Size - display the image at 1:1 scale
Fit - scale the image so its largest dimension fits on the layout (maintaining Aspect Ratio)
Fill - scale the image so its smallest dimension fits on the layout (maintaining Aspect Ratio)
Stretch - Fit the image to the background (doesn't maintain Aspect Ratio)

Background colour

When a background image hasn't been set, a background colour can be used to help make the lighting more visible against the background.

Grid

The Grid colour option allows you to set the colour that the grid is displayed in. Generally this should be a colour that is visible on your chosen background.

The Grid spacing can be specified in pixels. This is the grid on the layout which fixtures can be snapped to.

The Grid subdivisions defines the interval of major gridlines. These are the gridlines which are shown in bold on the layout.

NOTE: The Pharos Designer fixture library uses a scale of 1cm:1pixel (0.394":1pixel) for the fixture icons so, for best results, background images should be to this scale. If your installation is too large to be accommodated at this scale (i.e. bigger than 81.92m in either axis) then change the scale and use the Fixture Size settings to adjust the scale of your fixture icons accordingly. Alternatively, you can split your installation across multiple layouts.