Publishing Workflow

In this article:

• Publishing Overview
• How to Publish your Project
• Controlling your Published Project
• Other Publish Specifications

Lightform’s wireless control capabilities allow you to create and publish content over Wi-Fi or Ethernet.

The project creation workflow in Lightform Creator has three phases -- Design, Publish, and Control.

All of the design work is performed on the Design page of Lightform Creator. Saving or archiving your project to your laptop/desktop will generate a folder with a .lit project file, along with the project's scan images. This enables you to design freely across multiple sessions or days with or without being connected to your Lightform Device. However, the most important thing to remember, is that the changes made to a saved project file are not the changes that are displayed by your Lightform Device until you've published your project to the Lightform Device.

Publishing Overview

Publishing is the process of:

1. Preparing your project by converting it into an optimal format for your device.
   • This requires rendering your project's content to intermediate video files. This is comparable to rendering out videos in video editing software.
   • Note:  If your project only contains live effects, then rendering is trivial and won't take long.
2. Uploading it to your device.
   • This requires a network connection between your laptop/desktop and the Lightform device.

Prior to the update (Lightform Creator 2.1.4) released on March 31, 2021, both of these steps were performed in a single action by pressing the "Publish" button on the Design page of Lightform Creator. This required you to be connected to the same network as the Lightform Device on your computer.

With Lightform Creator ≥2.1.4 you can choose to perform each of these steps separately. What does this do and why would you choose to do it? We explain further below.