Crashes too much…. I really want it to work!
I’ve used it for over 5 years on and off, and I would use it more but it crashes too often for me to trust it for all my work. If it were more stable I would use it on every job.
Crashes
Response from developer
Try our new platform, Scenario. It’s incredibly stable on any device!
Do NOT waste your money
Response from developer
Try out our new platform, Scenario. Everything you’ve described here is the reason we’ve built it from the ground up to be more stable and flexible!
Crashes when trying to render large plots
Love the app and its potential but it’s BUGGY
While it offers so many possibilities, I’d love for it to be more stable.
It’s great
Great App In Theory
Response from developer
Typically I’d ask you to reach out over email to get more details, but I see you already have! Thanks!
Crashes
Clunky
Where are the reports of total units and total watts/amps?
It also seems the units are not to scale
Response from developer
Adrian, thanks for your feedback. You can reach out over email if you want to discuss more improvements! In the meantime: there are various ways of adding Gels, and one of them actually IS writing it in a box (in the Patch table). I also agree that adding frames could be a smoother process, and I’m planning to add electrical distribution and calculation in a future update. You can get total fixture counts using the Truck feature and in the equipment list. The units are to manufacturer’s specifications. What are you comparing them against? If it’s a floor plan image, that might be what’s not to scale. You can use the “Calculate Image Size” feature to fix that. If you have more ideas, please email me and we’ll talk!
Buggy to the point of being unusable
Response from developer
I’d love to hear more about these bugs so I can get them fixed! Please email me at lightingdesigner.app@gmail.com, or use the “Email Developer” feature in the app, so we can track them down.
Keeps crashing while naming fixtures
Mac
Crashes all the time
Excellent but still doesn’t have all of the basics
Response from developer
Not to worry; starting with v3.6.0, the app allows you to address fixtures up to 48 universes and 9999 channels. Let me know if you want more!
Continuous crashing and overpriced
Idea
Response from developer
Thanks! I’ll think about the best way to make that happen! Some video tutorials are certainly long overdue, but I’m sure anyone working in film/tv/theater will understand the laughability of finding the “free time” to do it :)
Great program, very helpful
I really appreciate the level of control and the density of the functionality and detail you can add and manipulate. Clearly a lot of time and thought went into this. Haven’t gotten deep enough to add truck/ crews / contact info but am looking forward to seeing how that works.
Having done my plots and layouts by hand previously this is a huge help.
Bry Thomas Sanders
Director of Photography
Potentially great but buggy
Also the recent update is extremely buggy, ‘LD’ is constantly asking for permission to let others look me up my email and when I say don’t allow or allow it just pops up over and over again. This forced me to restart my iPad multiple times and im extremely concerned if I have to reinstall the app if it keeps happening, would I potentially lose my plots ?!
Response from developer
Interesting thing about the repeated attempts. I would recommend just allowing it; the only reason it asks is so it can determine whether or not you’re signed into an iCloud account, which is how it knows whether or not to allow the option to sync your Plots. The email thing is just its weird way of asking. None of your personal details are ever sent to Apple or to me automatically, and there’s no LD function to look people up by their email. Update: in v3.5.2, the app should only ask you once and then leave it alone. I still recommend accepting, but if you don’t, it won’t affect the functionality of the app in any important way.
Nearly there but...
Not being able to import your own fixture graphics is annoying but not a show stopper as the inbuilt library is reasonable and you can rename as required.
The email output is ok, but hard to get the image dimensions right, and not really very configurable. I found I had to mail it to myself, edit the output to get it the way I wanted it.
Overall, a good app and worth the price.
I life the potential of this app.
Response from developer
If you create a shape, then tap the “Shapes” button to open the detail table, you can enter the dimensions of the shape as numbers. You can do this with any object, with some variations for what type of object it is. Please email me if you have any other questions! Edit: for v3.6.0, there's a "Shape Sizing" tool for images, which means you can define the length of a certain segment of an image and the image will automatically size itself. Enjoy!
