Fun stage lighting models primarily for schools. Note: at the time of writing this does not work properly on 64 bit Windows machines and this interaction has yet to be tested on 32 bit machines with the latest version of the shockwave plugin. It does work well on 32 bit systems with plugins version 10.2 and below. If you have any problems with this interaction please click on the contact button to the left and write a note letting us know the plugin version if possible.
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The idea is to eventually be able to design models of lighting rigs for a variety of theatres. (Theaters if you spell it that way!) The ultimate aim is for lighting engineers and directors to work without requiring the whole theatre and cast to be present. This early version uses the free Director Shockwave plugin and should be adequate for Drama and Science lessons in schools. The people can be hidden so this model can also be used in junior science lessons to show coloured lights combing and pointing at some basic geometric shapes. You can - move in and out with the mouse or the control panel
- pull the lights round their axes
- move the lights with the side control panel
- point the lights with the bottom control panel
- change the light cone angle
- turn the lights off and on
- change colour and intensity
- move or hide the people
- drag the stage background out of the way
If anyone wants it this early model here will become an accurate interactive model for a number of theatres with complete design, save, import and export facilities. Most importantly it will have a saveable timeline so that you can experiment and save lighting concepts for whole shows It would be good if you could import your local stage's lighting setup and position a different number of actors on stage at different points in the time line and then save the lighting changes for that as well. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 12 February 2008 )
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Dark stage lighting model |
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This is a similar model to the other early versions but with a slightly darker background (with no self illumination). It provides for a much richer set of atmospherics. Probably best to first drag the light cone markers to the right and then make one of the lights colour strips to be all in line. This gives one white light. After this you can use the move light control. |
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 This is a comparatively easy exercise. First click on the Geometry button. Then make the light cones wider. After that make the lights white by lining up the red green and blue sliders for each light. If it is too bright or too dark experiment lining up the sliders in different places and then try moving the lights and turning one off by clicking on one of the x buttons.  This is a little harder! The easiest way is to hide the geometry, move the woman to the front, make one light entirely white with a small cone and point it at her. You may have to move this light a little. Make sure one other light is blue and is pointing at the man. Again you may have to move the light and change its direction so that the floor is not illuminated. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 09 January 2007 )
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This simple lighting model is using the Director Shockwave plugin. If you look at the geometry you can see there is a problem. Got it? Right- there are no cast shadows. Everything looks a little unreal, maybe the objects are floating in the air. They do not look stuck to the ground. At the moment this lack of cast shadows is one of the problems with the 3d Shockwave plugin. If you are ever painting a picture with cast shadows, rather than thinking shadows are black, you can paint them the complimentary colour of the light. So if the light is yellow or orange you can paint them slightly blue, purple or violet. Then see if you think it looks real. |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 25 December 2006 )
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Stage Lighting 
