Groups Panel

The Groups Panel is the main method for selecting and managing your lighting rig.

Important Concepts

Within Lightforge, all lighting fixtures are organized into groups, subgroups, sub-subgroups, etc. Any change made to any group will affect all of the children of that group. If you select a group that contains the entire lighting rig, and change the intensity, it'll change the intensity of all of the children of that group.

The Info Bar

The info bar gives information on the group, fixture, or tool that the mouse cursor is currently over.

The Layout

The groups panel contains two types of objects; groups, and fixtures. Groups are rounded rectangles, and fixtures are circles. Fixtures give indications of basic attributes such as intensity, pan, tilt, and color.

Color Coding

Orange Outline - The outlined fixture or group is holding values. These values will override any values set in the current cues. When you record a cue, or a palette, these held values get saved into the cue or palette, and then the groups or fixtures are releases. To set a group or fixture to hold values, select the fixture and change any attribute (pan, tilt, color, intensity, etc. To release the hold either press the R key, or press the release button in the groups panel.

Salmon Background - These groups or fixtures are currently set to be locked. When groups are locked they continue outputting the values that they were at when you locked them regardless of what you set them to.

Keyboard And Mouse Shortcuts

Release - R

Select Multiple Groups - Right Click or Control + Left Click

Home - Home

Move Viewport - Middle mouse drag or M + Click and Drag

Zoom In - Mouse Scroll Wheel or +

Zoom Out - Mouse Scroll Wheel or -

Toggle Edit - Enter

Toggle Lock - L