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BlinderKitten: Free lighting software

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Re: BlinderKitten: Free lighting software

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Post by mintplant »

This is like QLab [0], right? If so, it's fantastic to see an open-source solution pop up in this space. That was very fun software to play around in when I was using it for an immersive tabletop roleplaying game I ran. Is the goal to focus exclusively on lighting control, or will other types of effects (sounds, video, HTTP) be included eventually as well?

[0] https://qlab.app/

Re: BlinderKitten: Free lighting software

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Post by jcrawfordor »

mintplant wrote: post #7

This is like QLab [0], right? If so, it's fantastic to see an open-source solution pop up in this space. That was very fun software to play around in when I was using it for an immersive tabletop roleplaying game I ran. Is the goal to focus exclusively on lighting control, or will other types of effects (sounds, video, HTTP) be included eventually as well? [0] https://qlab.app/

This is more of a lighting controller while QLab is a show controller. These are typically viewed as different layers of the stack: a show control system controls the light control system.

I don't know much about BlindersKitten but the page says it can receive OSC. OSC was originally for sound applications but is common as a show control protocol today due to being fairly simple and open (much like MIDI-SC, a formerly common show control protocol based on MIDI). So conceptually OSC is likely how a show control system would send commands (cues) to BlindersKitten.

Re: BlinderKitten: Free lighting software

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Post by jcelerier »

jcrawfordor wrote: post #8
mintplant wrote: post #7

This is like QLab [0], right? If so, it's fantastic to see an open-source solution pop up in this space. That was very fun software to play around in when I was using it for an immersive tabletop roleplaying game I ran. Is the goal to focus exclusively on lighting control, or will other types of effects (sounds, video, HTTP) be included eventually as well? [0] https://qlab.app/

This is more of a lighting controller while QLab is a show controller. These are typically viewed as different layers of the stack: a show control system controls the light control system. I don't know much about BlindersKitten but the page says it can receive OSC. OSC was originally for sound applications but is common as a show control protocol today due to being fairly simple and open (much like MIDI-SC, a formerl…

One such free OSC software you could use to control it (+ handle sound, video, etc as asked in GP) is https://ossia.io :) (transparency report: i'm the dev)
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