Light Plot Software?

It's called WYSIWYG, there is a free demo, but it cost a pretty penny to actually buy. Do a search on here for light plot programs. There are some free alternatives, but they are marginal at best. You are not the first person to ask this.

 

This recent thread has a fairly thorough discussion of the options... Vector works, Auto Cad, Soft Plot, WYSIWYG, Light Wright... I believe all of them are pretty expensive. If you are a student some offer discounted versions.

http://www.controlbooth.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4459&highlight=software

 

You are right and yet you "ARR!" so wrong you scurvy dog.

Yeah I slipped up, there Lightwright is a paperwork program that takes what you've done in your drawings and generates just about ever imaginable type of report you could want. It's a very cool program that saves a lot of time... but it works with a design program, it isn't one itself.

As for your pirate ways... haven't we learned by now? The reason the software is so expensive is someone has to pay for it. If you steal WYSIWYG... and yes using crack is no different than shoplifting a $500 piece of software... then the price goes up for everyone else. If you want good software to exist someone has to pay the hard working programmers to create it.

 

I'd like to advocate getting everyone to write the boys and girls at Sketchup to begin revamping or upgrading thier system to work like WYSIWYG. I use Sketchup all the time for developing rendering os sets and or props pieces and I would love to see it coupled with a lighting engine that can do more than just track the sun based on the locaton of where you put the item in the world what month, day and time of day it is. That being said, I'm a big fan of Sketchup fro general renderings and I advocate everyone downloading the freeware version and learning it. Specially you younger guys and girls who might not have any other exposure to using rendering software.

BTW Famouslastwords, I've stuck my foot in my mouth a few times here but Man that was a "Doozy" < how do you spell doozy?> To say you don't advocate piracy, then turn around and give a program name and version number ? That's definately worth a floggin' before the mast.

 

Wow, thats some second post... I shall refer this thread to this... http://www.lightnetwork.com//?msg=20627.1.. there you can hear from some of the more leading people in this industry about how they feel about it... if you would like to post this information there as well and formally burn you bridge (you started the fire here) more power to you.

And as far as sketchup goes, thats a great program... I light in kinda an odd way with an assortment of programs... I draft the theatre/set/whatnot in AutoCAD, make it 3d in sketchup (its just so fricken fast), and then import that drawing into WYG to light it. If WYG had a CAD set that didn't look like it was from 1988 that would be a totally different thing....