Drone Show Studio — drone light show design and simulation

Transition planning

Select a SHOW clip. Takeoff and landing keep their dedicated vertical planners.

Plan the physical launch grid, a staging formation and a grouped take-off before show time zero. The show timeline itself never moves: the pre-show occupies negative show time.

Fleet participation

Production readiness

NOT ANALYZED

This show has not been validated yet. Run Full-Show Validation to enable export.

Next: Run Full-Show Validation

Full show validation

Composes TAKEOFF → SHOW → LANDING into one trajectory set and validates timing, continuity, proximity, flight limits, home pads and the light program.

Flight envelope

Flight site

No real-world site is set, so no GPS boundary can be checked. Add one to anchor the show to real coordinates and check the authorised area.

Authoring feedback (0 err / 0 warn)

Live authoring feedback while you edit — it does NOT authorize export. Export is authorized only by Full-Show Validation above.

peak v

0.0 m/s

peak a

0.0 m/s²

peak yaw

0 °/s

min sep

0.00 m

peak jerk

0.0 m/s³

frames

1

plan errors

0

• All checks passed within the flight envelope.

Export flight output

Not analysed yet. Run Full-Show Validation to enable flight output export.

Generated flight output

Save project

The editable Studio document. Always allowed — it is not flight output.

Samples / development

Development and diagnostics fixtures. Loading one replaces the open document.

Vertical stack analysis

INFORMATIONAL — not an export gate and not a safety verdict. Detects pairs that are nearly vertically stacked (small horizontal offset, real altitude difference) at the current frame. Vertical means world +Y.

frame

0.00 s

points

48

candidate pairs

0

worst horizontal

—

vertical offset

—

3D distance

—

min horiz (v-sep pairs)

—

depth extent Z

60.00 m

depth spread σZ

19.73 m

width extent X

60.00 m

altitude extent Y

0.00 m

depth↔height corr

0.000

plane tilt

0.0°

plane residual

0.00 m

Sampled-time analysis: only analysed frames are inspected, so an occurrence entirely between frames can be missed. This never replaces continuous 3D conflict detection, and thresholds above are analysis values, not certified limits.

Geometry proposal

DESIGN PREVIEW ONLY

Projection-preserving depth staggering proposed by the canonical read-only optimizer. Nothing is applied: formations, assignments, planner output, safety thresholds and export are untouched.

Shared representative viewpoint

DESIGN LIMIT — NOT A FLIGHT SAFETY LIMIT

proposal available

no

chosen amplitude

—

candidate pairs before

0

candidate pairs after

—

pair reduction

—

displacement cap accepted

—

No vertical-stack candidates at the supplied analysis thresholds; no proposal generated.

Diagnostic evidence only. Reduced vertical-stack candidates and a preserved silhouette do not imply a flyable or validated show; any future applied geometry must be replanned and pass canonical validation and export gates.

Imported show → editable timeline

Extraction keeps the imported trajectories byte-exact as the playback source and adds editable clips on top. A clip switches to planner output only when you change its geometry, motion, timing or assignment.

Simulation bridgeoffline

SIMULATION ONLY — replays ONE drone trajectory through a local PX4 SITL vehicle or an in-process mock. No real aircraft can be commanded from here.

Adapters

• Virtual Fleet (in-browser)available

  none · internal

• Generic Show JSON (.dss.show.json)available

  n/a — internal documented schema · internal

• Skybrush Show (.skyc)planned

  Skybrush Studio / Live · format interop only — no GPL sources vendored

• Generic trajectory CSVavailable

  n/a · internal

• PX4 SITL (single vehicle, via Simulation Bridge)configured

  PX4 Autopilot (BSD-3) · BSD-3 — process boundary, no code copied

• MAVSDK / MAVLinkplanned

  MAVSDK (BSD-3), MAVLink · BSD-3 — used as a library in the Python service