Download — v2.1.6-alpha.1

The console, when it is ready for you.

HYPER LIGHT is in private beta. There is no public download yet: builds go to people who ask, platform by platform, and every one starts with fourteen days of everything.

Windows x64

Private beta

Your platform

Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. The console, the visualiser, HYPER-MAPPER and Guard licensing in one installer.

Windows on ARM

Not built yet

No ARM64 build exists, and the x64 build has not been tested under emulation. Ask for it, and say which machine.

macOS · Linux

Not planned

The console drives the GPU and video decoder through Windows' own interfaces (Direct3D 11, Media Foundation).

Windows only, by design.

Fixture library

Bring your own fixtures.

HYPER LIGHT reads the fixture files you already have. It does not bundle, redistribute or sell anyone's fixture library: get official files from the manufacturer, and the console reads them where they are.

GDTF .gdtf

Primary · open standard

The General Device Type Format (DIN SPEC 15800) — the console's native fixture format, read with every channel function, wheel and geometry the file describes.

Put the files in the console's Personalities folder, or load one in Quick Patch: Load a device file…

GDTF Share

the GDTF Group's library and builder

Avolites Titan .d4

Supported

An installed Titan library is found and indexed when the console starts — all of it, read where it is. A single personality can be loaded from any folder.

Install Titan from Avolites (Personality Builder comes with it), or load a .d4 in Quick Patch.

Avolites support

its Personalities section: download and request personalities

Avolites legacy .r20

Experimental

No .r20 file was available to build a parser from, so the console reads only the XML form and refuses any other with its reason — it never guesses at a patch.

Have a .r20 the console refuses? Send it to us and it will be supported properly.

Send a sample

Third-party formats are read for interoperability only (licence agreement §8.1). Avolites, Titan, Pearl and Personality Builder are trademarks of Avolites Ltd; GDTF is an open format standardised as DIN SPEC 15800. All third-party trademarks, logos and file specifications remain the property of their owners; HYPER LIGHT is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.

How it goes

01AskRequest access for your platform. You hear from us when a build is ready for it.
02InstallRun the installer. The console shows its licence agreement before anything starts.
03EvaluateFourteen days with every universe, show saving and every studio.
04ActivateBind a licence to the machine code the console shows — checked offline from then on.

System requirements

Operating system: Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit (x64)
Tested on: Intel HD 520, 2 cores — the machine HYPER LIGHT is built on
Displays: 1366 × 768 console; a second display for the visualiser or output
Network: Art-Net and sACN over Ethernet or Wi-Fi; none needed to run
Licence: 14 days with everything, then a machine-bound licence — checked offline

Using the console means accepting its licence agreement, which it shows before it first starts.