ShadowMagic1.3.4 - App Store

A virtual light lab, or Black Box theatre for visualizing lighting, color, shadows, and scenery.
The lab has a 40’ x 30’ stage and a 40' x 20' cyclorama. The theatre space is 80’ wide, 40’ high, and 80’ deep.

Designers can choose up to eight fixtures to light a very basic scene. Two types of lights are available. The Source Four(R) Spotlight is available with 14°, 26°, 19°, 36°, 50° lens barrels. The The Source Four(R) 7” Fresnel may also be selected and zooms from full flood at 65° to spot focus with a beam angle of 20°. All of the beam spreads are photometrically correct.

The lamp for both fixtures is a 750 W HPL, and when it is dimmed the color temperature decreases from 3200° K at full down to 2300° when the light is at 4%. Each light can be dimmed individually or the entire scene lowered using a grand master. Intensity has a resolution of 1%.

A theatre lighting simulator would not be complete without gels and we have over 1600 colors to choose from the 4 major manufacturers. The gels can be assembled into a collection called a gel string and any color from the string can be applied to each light.

Each of the lights may be positioned anywhere around the theatre to simulate booms, shinbusters, or the balcony rail. Resolution of the position is 0.1 feet. When focused on the actor, the lights are auto-focused so you can move the light’s position and see the resulting angle. Lights focused on the backdrop are focused manually by touching the cyc.

When you move or rotate the actor, the lights will follow and stay focused right in the center of the body.

Scenes may be saved and organized into projects. Both can be shared as a .pdf report with colleagues and friends to show off your ideas.

While simple in concept and operation, ShadowMagic has subtleties such as reflections from a matte gray stage covering and the coloring of shadows from other light fixtures. From beginners to seasoned professionals, ShadowMagic makes visualizing and lighting a scene much quicker and easier and more fun.

Version History Added Metric dimensions for use for those outside of the U.S. Corrected support contact information. 1.3.4 12/12/2025 Improved the transparency of the scrim at the back of the stage. 1.3.2 03/06/2024 Improvements in rendering and bug fixes. 1.3.1 09/24/2021 Sample scenes are included to use as starting places for your scenes. Projects can now be shared as files with colleagues. They can instantly see your ideas. Any scene changes are now reminded for saving. We have improved the behavior in dark environments. 1.3.0 01/13/2020 Announcing a new company behind ShadowMagic, Crossroads Motorsport, LLC. Same people, just a new company. We have some great new features coming soon. 1.2.9 04/11/2019 A small bug fix for focusing lights on the cyc. The lights focused but the labels lost track. 1.2.8 01/10/2019 We have 2 new actors who have joined our troupe. Meet Rick and Cindy. Now we can set new marks for the actors anywhere on the stage and even rotate them around using just 2 fingers.
We have added new rendering engine and gotten the inverse square law to play nicely with the Source 4®s and Fresnels. 1.2.7 10/19/2018 Shortcuts are now available for Light Selection and Color Selection. Help videos are now built in and provide quick insight for using the Shortcuts, and managing projects and scenes. The videos can be switched off and used for later reference.
2 more lights are available bringing the total to 8. Each light can be focused on the actor or the backdrop. You can choose between a Source Four® or a Fresnel.
Intensity for each of the lights has been reduced to prevent overloading the display.
The camera dolly position has been moved out another 10 feet so viewing from behind the scrim is easier. 1.2.6 09/12/2018 The search function is now expanded to use the gel name in addition to its number , so if you search for "red" all gels that have red in the name will be found.
We added a "zero" tick mark to the Upstage/Downstage position slider for better control when placing the light.
Gelstrings created in Gel Swatch Library can now be directly imported to ShadowMagic making choosing colors easier and faster. 1.2.4 06/22/2018 Fixed a couple of corrupted colors.
Added a link to frequently asked questions. 1.2.3 05/17/2018 Two actors now available, a solo male and solo female. They both work cheap. 1.2.2 05/10/2018 We have improved the shared reports.
The camera now has improved dolly functions. 1.2.1 05/08/2018 1.2 05/02/2018