Unilighter & Lighting Design Course

Welcome to the Unilighter training course. This curriculum teaches stage lighting from physical fixture placement to live performance busking and generative visual node automation.

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The course is organized into seven practical modules:

  1. 📦 Practical Foundations & Hardware Essentials: Fixture families (PARs, Wash, Spot, Beam, Bars, Blinders), the 0–255 channel concept, the Simple Desk ("расчёска"), and the 4 golden cabling rules.
  2. 🎨 Stagecraft & Practical Lighting Design: The 5 angles of illumination, why haze is required for visible beams, creating great lighting looks without DMX, and pre-visualizing in the 2D Site Planner and 3D Visualizer.
  3. 🎭 Classic Staged Show Control: Clean static scenes, organizing rigs with flexible Fixture Tags, step and keyframe animations, theatrical cue lists, and flash bump buttons.
  4. ⚡ Real-Time Busking, LightJockeying & Generative Nodes: Live busking for raves and DJ sets, offloading low-level chores to background nodes (inspired by TouchDesigner and Blender), Math/LFO/Audio FFT triggers, and tactile MIDI control.
  5. 🏟️ Stadium Scale & Fixture Choreography: Architectural principles for 50+ universes, creating optical waves through rapid on/off intensity chasing, and array timelines.
  6. ⏱️ Timecode & Professional Show Synchronization: Locking lighting, video, and pyrotechnics to audio tracks using SMPTE LTC and MTC with millisecond precision.
  7. 🔬 Physical & Electrical Engineering Deep Dive: Advanced technical reference: photometrics, the inverse square law, 3-phase balancing, inrush currents, 3rd harmonic neutral overheating, and RS-485 line diagnostics.