#vectorworks

I did not make the model! It was provided by an instructor. If I find credit (I am looking) I will post it here :)

this took me so fucking long not because it was particularly hard, lighting wise or technology wise, but because the fucking internet kept going out and destroying the connection between my capture window and the actual fixtures and fucked everything up. And when I re-entered their addresses I fucked up somehow (even though I imported directly from vectorworks and I don't have a universe limit, or any overlapping addresses--supposedly) and all the control parameters got FUCKED.

I would adjust the pan/tilt of one fixture, and a completely different fixture would change colors or intensity. Even after completely un-patching all the fixtures, checking their DMX footprint, remembering that capture calls addresses channels for some goddamn reason and fixing everything there, re-patching (TWICE), fully restarting capture, and completely re-doing the light import/export with a million different parameters like three times the lights were still misbehaving.

I ended up manually panning and tilting within the capture software mostly, even though hypothetically most of the fixtures could have done that themselves.

All I'm saying is that this shit would never happen in person with my beloved EOS GIO board and real actual tangible lights. but I can't light the starship discovery in person. so.