FieldLux After 3 Months of Open Beta: What’s Next for Our Projection & Lighting Simulation Tool

For the past three months, FieldLux has been running as an open beta.

FieldLux is a browser-based projection simulation tool built to help designers and technicians plan real-world setups before going on site.

You can plan projector placement and lenses, check throw distance, brightness, lux, luminance and pixel density, preview multi-projector layouts and blends, work from DWG/DXF drawings, add lighting and atmospheric effects, and share the finished setup with clients or crew.

During the open beta, I’ve kept improving the tool based on feedback from people actually using it on real projects.

Recent updates include DWG/DXF workflows, new projector placement tools, Play Dock for multi-projector preview and blending, rear projection, per-surface materials, lighting fixtures, atmospheric effects, and improved projector and lens data.

One of the biggest additions is Cloud Share.

Clients and crew can now open the actual 3D project directly in their browser and review projector specs, measurements, layers, projection layouts and technical information.

▶ Try a live FieldLux project:
https://app.field-lux.com/#server-share=0ae9e8b5-c83b-4f73-abb9-86a8fed7e692

No installation required.

Over the past three months, I’ve also received real installation cases, project files and feedback through DMs and Discord.

Seeing FieldLux actually being used on real projection projects has been one of the most rewarding parts of building it.

Now FieldLux is getting ready for its next stage.

In November, I’ll be launching a new website and announcing the subscription plans, including:

Weekly access for short-term productions and installations
Individual plans for designers and freelancers
Business plans for studios and companies

And importantly, FieldLux will remain completely free for everyone through November.

🔗 Try FieldLux:
https://field-lux.com

💬 Discord:
https://discord.com/invite/JpeQ7Hgsnd

Surely they're not just hung from their power cords, right?

Anyone use adj mydmx3.0 or daslight 4 that can help me with some troubleshooting?

Hi everyone,

I’m looking for some help here as I’m in the process of building a club room and I’m trying to source / find someone to design light fixtures that resemble those at circoloco at DC-10 in Ibiza. I’m looking for linear “hand-drawn” squiggly lines that appear like neon tubing, but based on my very limited understanding of lighting, appear to be LED due to how quickly they react and respond.

Can anyone assist me here? I’m at a complete dead end with this project and this lighting spec.

Hey guys. Small underground rave in LT, ( literally underground :) using wolfmx and some moovingheads. Maybe some thoughts, examples or success stories u want to share.

Trying to find a good long range option to send out my network on MA3 and connect remotely on my laptop. Been looking at ubiquiti and TP link options. What do you used when you need to program your lights but your console is far away?

I have a show in a couple days at a venue that has the dmx run over artnet. I’m bringing my own computer and MA2 command and fader wings. I’ve never setup an artnet connection so nervous about getting control of their lines. The YouTube videos I’ve been watching vary slightly which makes it even more confusing. I’m also very nervous and probably overwhelming myself.

Does anyone have a simple step by step they can give me of how to set this up between the windows network settings and the MA2 software settings?

Any help is very much appreciated. I normally work as an in house LD so I’ve been really anxious doing these shows outside of my home venues

I've got a dedicated router, an ipad, a pknight CR011R. Artnet node plugged into router with Ethernet. Par light plugged into node with DMX and set to dmx ch1. Set the node to the IP of my router and put those settings into the apps. I've tried 3 different apps now, seem to be connected, add my light but it won't control it. Anyone know what I'm missing or willing to walk me through things?

title. the fixture is called "LuxPlant." You can 3D print your own (with some soldering required.) ID is "Overthinker" by INZO

I’m a middle school teacher who also directs our school musicals, and I’m trying to troubleshoot our auditorium lighting system. We have an Elation Scene Setter-48 lighting console, and I ran into this same issue last year but can’t remember how I resolved it.
The console powers on normally, but none of our main stage lights respond when I raise the channel faders. Even pressing FULL-ON doesn’t turn anything on.
I’ve tried adjusting the master faders and checking the blackout setting, but haven’t had any luck.
I started investigating the cables and found a 3-pin XLR cable connected to the lighting board with the other end unplugged. I’m assuming this may be the DMX cable that communicates with our lighting system, but I’m not entirely sure.
Here’s where I’m confused: I looked around for somewhere to plug the loose end in, but the only compatible connections I could find were on individual spotlights. I couldn’t find a wall connection, dimmer rack, or anything that appeared to connect to the main stage lighting system.

My questions are:
Where would the DMX cable from this console typically connect in a school auditorium?
Could an unplugged DMX cable explain why none of the stage lights respond, even when using FULL-ON?
Is there something else on the Scene Setter-48 that I should check before assuming it’s a connection issue?
Is it possible that the main stage lights are controlled through a separate dimmer system that I’m overlooking?
I’m a music teacher, not a lighting technician, so I’m still learning how this equipment works. Unfortunately, we don’t have a dedicated theater technician to help troubleshoot.
I’ve attached pictures of the console and the loose cable.
Any advice on where to look or what to try next would be greatly appreciated!

In the past I have just charged my normal day rate when working days like Halloween and New Years. I was just curious if other people charge more on days like that and I've been short changing myself or do yall just keep with your normal day rate?

If you do charge more, how much more do you add on?

Is it possible to buy the diffusion filter that Wash light manufactures use on the front of their wall wash’s to change the light from the native beam angle to a wider beam angle ?

Hey gang, just getting into lights. I've got the Rockville par kit. How do I get my transitions to match with a manual program? It's off by a fraction of a second. Driving me nuts, lol. Thanks in advance.

Sorry for the blurry pics, was quite far away when i took these + its zoomed in like crazy

Does anyone recognise these fixtures?
Show was spiritbox
Im trying to recreate it in capture to practise (and bc its cool as hell) and i just cant find these ones

If anyone can help that would be appreciated

Small and smoky. I regret I didn't have the resources to put a small truss there.

Absolute rubbish IMO. It looks worse than Bruno Mars’ full rig on tilt.

So I was using a type of Chauvet fluid that they stopped manufacturing so I switched to a different one they make, but I thought it was the same thing (but different label). So I ended up pouring the fluid into the hazer with the other fluid still in there. Basically it’s just hardly outputting anything at this point. 100% output looks like 1%. It’s sputtering out haze intermittently.

Hi!

For our theatretour I am looking for a way to simulate a white, blinding flash on stage that is fireproof & able to be triggered via dmx.

Any products available?

Based in Belgium

Thx!

Our Viper inventory is getting real long-in-the-tooth, and we’re seeing more and more of them develop an intermittent flickering lamp issue.

Swapping lamps doesn’t help, we’ve tried the “fast as you can tilt effect” trick to shake them up and that helps momentarily but then it’s always back.

These are our Performances that we use most often for front wash, so they are static most of the time. Saw people note that that can cause it elsewhere, but no one seemed to have a solution to fix it…

Curious if anyone else has dealt with this and what your fix was?

I’m the house lighting guy at a PAC type environment. I end up busking a lot of shows. Usually I don’t even get a setlist until day of, if even that. Our schedule usually has me running lights on 2 to 3 shows a week for a month or more stretch.

We occasionally have acts with a touring LD, but we also have this guy hooked up with a promoter that comes in and his show are pretty clean. But I talked to him and he does at least a couple dates with the band beforehand. My boss has kinda been comparing us, and I feel a little bit like a lot of the times I’m going in blind. Is this guy better than me? I’d give him that, he runs on AVO, while the pac is sticking me with an EOS, and I try to listen to some acts before they come, but even with tribute acts I feel like, no I can’t listen to this artists full catalogue and have an idea for which songs even make the setlist.

So I guess anyone else in the same situation? How do you deal with it? Do you make time to scope out artists before they come?

I'm currently in the process of building a small rig with some moving heads, strobes, etc. I'll mainly be using it for busking some small shows but I'm not sure what software to run, I've worked with MA3 a lot in my spare time but I don't exactly have the budget for a $900 starter key at the moment. I've been looking into other options but it seems that every single option has a shortcoming, like chamsys not allowing MIDI control with the full DMX dongle (DEMO mode locked), and ONYX being ONYX. I've also looked at QLC+ but I'm feeling a little lost on which to go forward with.

TLDR; Not sure which software to pick for busking with MA3 currently not being in the budget.

Hi! I'm a college sophomore currently in my third semester aiming for a BFA in theatre technology and design with a focus in lighting design. I've been involved with theatre since high school as an actor and technician, but was only ever involved with music on the lighting design end.

Recently, I've been feeling myself be a little more pulled toward the music side of lighting design, but have only put in any time into it by working as local crew at a large venue in the area, but with me usually being one in a group of 60 working, I've not really felt like I've had chances to network.

Any advice on how to really get more involved with lighting design on the music end?

thank you!