Ignition

A lighting-and-visual control system: DMX/Art-Net/sACN console, GPU-accelerated real-time 3D visualizer, and video/projection mapping, in one Rust/Dioxus application — desktop and web, from the same codebase.

Status: pre-alpha. Domain modelling and research phase; see docs/.

Why

FastTrackStudio (the sibling repo) is a music-production and live-worship platform that already owns the musical structure of a show: song sections, tempo maps, chord detection, setlists, a guide/count-in engine. No lighting console on the market has access to that. Ignition's long-term bet is cues that write themselves from the song — see docs/research/lighting-console-landscape.md for the full argument.

Short-term, Ignition needs to be a good console first: patch, groups, referenced presets, tracking cues, phaser-style effects, a real 3D visualizer, and now — projection mapping onto physical screens in the room, so video content and lighting live in one system instead of a console plus a separate Resolume box.

Hard requirements

• 3D visualizer, GPU-accelerated (wgpu), not a toy — a working tool the operator can point-and-click focus fixtures in, the way Augment3d and MA 3D are used.
• Easy to use. The primary operator is a volunteer, not a programmer.
• Multi-window, native desktop and web, from one Dioxus codebase.
• Projection mapping onto physical surfaces (TVs, screens) in the venue — Resolume-style slices/mapping, but living inside the same show file and the same patch as the lights, not a second application to sync.
• Integrates with FastTrackStudio: control surfaces, the session/setlist engine, and eventually the auto-generated-cues pipeline.

Repo layout (proposed — see docs/domain/)

crates/
  ignition-proto     wire contract — architect-style RPC service traits
  ignition-core       no_std+alloc: attribute model, patch resolve, cue/
                       tracking engine, phaser maths, merge stack — no I/O
  ignition-io          sACN / Art-Net / USB widget adapters (native only)
  ignition-fixtures    GDTF / MVR / OFL / QLC .qxf importers → one model
  ignition-viz         wgpu 3D visualizer + projection-mapping render path
  ignition-video       media decode/playback for mapped surfaces
  ignition-ui          Dioxus panels: patch, programmer, cue list, timeline,
                       mapping editor
apps/
  ignition-engine      the headless engine binary (console + I/O + viz host)
docs/
  domain/              domain model (ASLS-style, grounded in a real venue)
  research/            landscape studies — OSS/industry comparison, grandMA3
                       recipes/phasers, Resolume mapping, venue reference
data/
  venues/norco/        real fixture patch + room geometry, extracted from an
                       actual Eos show file, used as the first visualizer
                       test case (see docs/domain/norco-venue-reference.md)

Licence

GPL-3.0-or-later, matching FastTrackStudio. See LICENSE.

Related

• FastTrackStudio — the audio/music product this integrates with.
• eos-toolkit — Cody's own ETC Eos OSC scripting toolkit; its docs/ is the best single source of ground-truth Eos behaviour used in this project's research.