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Wysiwyg is an all-in-one lighting design software with fully integrated CAD, plots, data, visualization and virtual show control. Wysiwyg features the largest CAD library with thousands of 3D objects you can choose from to design your entire show.
Award-winning lighting designer Bruno Poet used CAST's WYSIWYG software to previsualize his technically innovative stage lighting for the latest production of Cameron Mackintosh's Miss Saigon at the Prince Edward Theatre in London's West End.
"As the script and score for the show were well established, the production period for the show was much shorter than other West End productions of a similar scale. Our team worked from scratch on the show's lighting design using the pre-visualization features on offer in WYSIWYG," explained Poet.
"CAST designed WYSIWYG specifically to help groundbreaking lighting designers such as Bruno Poet," says Igor Silva, marketing director at CAST Software. "And anybody that's been blown away by Cameron Mackintosh's latest epic production of Miss Saigon in London will already see that the results speak for themselves."
CAST's WYSIWYG enables lighting designers to layout their stage structure and have their lighting show pre-programmed before they even get to the venue. It is this particular feature that helped Bruno Poet to start the important work of the lighting design for Miss Saigon before even stepping foot into the new venue at the Prince Edward Theatre.
"Whether a stage director, set or lighting designer is creating an entirely new lighting design for any scale of production or event, or wanting to update and develop a current design, the WYSIWYG design and previsualization suite gives them a real edge, as well as cutting electricity and production costs and the time they need onsite" adds Silva.
The latest set and lighting designs for the new production of Miss Saigon were initially built using WYSIWYG, by lighting visualizer, James Simpson, with on-site support during pre-plotting by programmer, Warren Letton. Simpson's brief was to re-build the scenery and add new set elements where necessary, in order to also create and patch the entire lighting rig.
"The reason visualization was such a success on this production was because Bruno had the confidence to push it through the producers and get them to support it," Simpson recalls. "Visualization doesn't have a future in the theatre unless lighting designers, programmers, and producers want to support it, but if they do it can really save a lot of time and money."
"Bruno wanted to hit the ground running when he got into the venue and have some building block cues and chases already programmed so he had something to show the director and producer on the first day," Simpson recalls. "They started by creating focus positions for all of the lights so there were pallets built on the ETC Eos Ti lighting control desk. This in itself was a useful exercise as it allowed Bruno the chance to establish what lights could make the shots and make design changes before the rig had even gone up."
The company says the bottom line is the fact that using WYSIWYG meant that the rest of the production had more quality time on stage to do more rehearsing and finessing. Any director or producer knows that this time is invaluable -- so the pre-visualization and lighting design work is there in every aspect of this amazing show.
I'm a freelance Lighting Designer working mainly in opera and I use Wysiwyg Perform to design my lighting rigs in 3d.
I usually hook Wysiwyg up with my ETC EOS Nomad to pre-program and check lighting cues so that I can visualise my lighting before the set and lights are rigged in the theatres / opera houses where I work.
It would be a great time saver if I could import the Wysiwyg .wyg file into Augment 3d so that the theatre's lighting console programmer could see my rig at the console without having to redraw the set and lighting rig all from scratch.
I hope someone can set out a straightforward workflow that I could try.
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I was playing with that last night. worked reasonably well. There are a few things I need to figure out involving custom images on surfaces, but over all it was very cool.
I was also playing with MVR between wysiwyg, Vectorworks, and MA3 on PC and found it to be pretty great. Definitely some things I need to learn, particularly on the MA3 side. But it is all very promising and cool.
Thanks for the input. I will hold out hope that ETC will eventually bring MVR into the fold. Until then I guess I just have to practice placing my fixtures in manually.
I'm under the impression that Vectorworks is a lot better then Wyg for creating plots and general lighting documentation which is what I really want out of the software. I do find Wyg lacking in some stuff and I really hate the way they wont allow you to make your own intelligent fixtures or edit the current library. Rendering with VW or Wyg Design is a plus but I don't currently need to show my clients renderings, although that may change in the future (especially if I gain those capabilities).
You need to look at where your business model is taking you? If it is straight clean lighting plans with a paperwork ability, then vectorworks makes sense. If you are looking at the client presentation combined with paperwork and preplotting, then WYG is the best way.
Assuming that the Client likes one of the concepts and we get the go ahead to move forwards. Set and Lighting Drawings (in 3D) are put together in Vectorworks. I have never liked WYG's CAD Plot output, they always look a bit like 'my first lighting plot' to me. There are good examples of a clean plot output out there, but they represent many years of faffing around with the software and wrestling it into submission. I prefer the final plot output and the overall cleanliness that we can achieve from VW.
Lightwright takes a while to get used to and is a bit clunky at first. Brilliant companion software that is designed to intergrate with vectorworks. The demo version is good to 65 channels and offers the full package etc. Worth a look. Lightwright 6 now intergrates via osc to the eos family e.g. update a dimmer repatch in lightwright and both vectorworks and the console are populated with the same information.
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The project team implemented an Agile approach as the product features were not well defined and discovery and iteration were required to create the product. The deliverables included production lighting and stage design drawings, a CAD map of the production site, a digital environment built in Unreal Engine based on the imported design files, and a rendering of the intended production site represented by 3D assets. All design and modeling work had to be realistic and feature dynamic lighting and animation. The virtual environment created served as an MVP. The below User Story prioritization grid was created using the MoSCoW prioritization technique.
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Laser light visualization in wysiwyg is available in both Perform and Design editions. In Live Mode, lasers can be controlled with the Pangolin Control System and Sollinger Animation. In design mode, a generic fixture can be used and generic laser patterns can be added.
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WYSiWYG is an all-in-one lighting design software with fully integrated CAD, plots, data, visualization and virtual show control. WYSiWYG features the largest CAD library with thousands of 3D objects you can choose from to design your entire show. The seamless integration between Vectorworks Spotlight and Vision allows you to create design documents, automate paperwork, and visualize your design in rendered 3D views. When you're done, easily send fixture and model information directly to Vision to previsualize, program and cue your show
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Last year the course addressed the first level of the Wysiwyg and Qlab programmes, this year we are tackling the second degree of difficulty in order to further the specialisation of participants. The training school specialising in design, lighting and new technologies for shows DiiVANT will give a certificate at the end of both courses.
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