The venue size sets the dimensions of your stage in meters. It determines the scale of the visualizer: how large the fixtures appear and what distances lie between them. The more accurate the size, the more realistic the layout.
How to set it:
- Click “Venue” — the settings open.
- Enter the width and depth in meters by hand, or pick a ready-made preset:
| Preset | Size (W × D) |
|---|---|
| Club | 8 × 6 m |
| Stage | 12 × 8 m |
| Hall | 15 × 10 m |
| Arena | 20 × 15 m |
The current size is always shown at the bottom of the 2D plan (for example, “12 × 8 m”).
Venue brightness. The same “Venue” window holds the “Venue brightness” slider. It lightens the hall itself — the floor, the grid markings, the trusses and the walls. Useful when the picture looks too dark: monitors differ, and the light in the room gets in the way in different measures.
- 100 % is how it was originally. A click on the percentage next to the slider instantly returns 100 %.
- Along with the venue, the trusses and the bodies of the fixtures come out too, including the ones that are switched off: on a dark stage an unlit fixture used to be almost invisible and hard to hit with the mouse.
- The slider does not change the brightness of the light from the fixtures: beams, pools and colours stay the same, only the “scenery” around them gets lighter.
- The setting is remembered for this computer and is not saved into the project — open somebody else’s file and you keep your own brightness.
Room height
Next to width and depth you set the Room height — from 2 to 30 metres, 5 by default. Three things depend on it:
- how tall the walls are drawn;
- how high fixtures mounted on the ceiling hang — they drop 0.8 m below the ceiling (hook, bar and body). In a 5 m room that is the familiar 4.2 m; in a 3 m room, 2.2 m;
- whether a beam aimed upwards has anything to hit: in a closed room it leaves a pool on the ceiling.
A ready-made venue in one click
At the top of the Venue window there are four buttons: Club, Bar, Wedding hall, Open-air. One press and the hall is set up whole:
- the size and the height of the room are set, the walls are turned on (or off, for an open-air site);
- a stage stands by the back wall with a truss over its downstage edge, and in a large hall a second truss over the audience;
- speakers are placed at the sides of the stage, plus a DJ booth, an LED screen (in the club and open-air presets) and two audience areas.
It is a starting point, not a fixed scheme: from there move and edit any item with the mouse as usual. Made a mistake? Ctrl+Z brings the previous venue back whole, in a single step.
