SaveEditors / LightbarEditor

# Lightbar Editor
**Customize the PS5 shutdown-screen lightbar.** Edit strip colors, particle palettes and ramp textures in a local desktop interface, then transfer your saved assets to the console over FTP.
Author: **SaveEditors** · Windows x64 · **GPL-3.0-only**
## Console demonstrations
These recordings show customized shutdown-screen assets during a PS5 restart. The GIF previews play automatically and loop. Click a preview to open the original MP4. The editor screenshot above shows version 1.6.0; version 1.7.0 adds Console FTP and About.
| Multicolor strips | Segmented strips |
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| Watch video · 7 seconds | Watch video · 9 seconds |
## Features
- Lightbar mesh preview with console-screen, front, side, top and other viewing angles.
- Built-in color presets, independent strip controls and particle palette editing.
- Matching particle palettes for every theme. Custom particle colors stay in place when you switch themes; enable **Use theme particle colors** to resume automatic matching.
- Ramp texture adjustments, PNG import/export and BC7 re-encoding.
- Undo/redo, reusable presets, save-as copies and local `.bak` recovery.
- Optional FTP downloads and reviewed uploads with console backups and byte-for-byte readback verification.
- Portable executable with embedded interface and fonts. No Python, Node.js or Go installation is needed to run it.
## Requirements
- A Windows x64 PC with a modern web browser.
- Your own supported `shutdown_lightbar.fbxd` and `shutdown_ramp.gnf` files. Console assets are **not distributed** with this project.
- For FTP: a console setup that already provides an FTP server and the required read/write access, on a trusted local network.
Supported mesh files use the single-mesh lightbar layout. Supported ramp textures contain one linear BC7 image without mipmaps. Other layouts are rejected; compatibility across console firmware versions is not established.
## Get started
1. Download **LightbarEditor.exe** from Releases. Save it to a writable folder. License notices and SHA-256 checksums are available alongside the executable.
2. Run `LightbarEditor.exe`. The editor opens in your browser; keep its program window running while editing.
3. Open either asset. The matching asset opens automatically when it is in the same folder. Alternatively, use **Console FTP → Download pair**.
4. Choose a preset or adjust the strips, particles and ramp texture. Use **Save effect** to save the pair.
5. Transfer the saved pair using the instructions below. Check the result on the console.
## Transfer to the console
The usual asset folder is `/system_ex/vsh_asset`. Both filenames must remain:
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### Built-in FTP
1. Start the console's FTP server. Open **Console FTP** in the editor.
2. Enter your console's address and FTP port. The port defaults to `1337`; change it to match your server. Enter credentials if required.
3. Confirm the remote asset folder, then choose **Check connection** or **Download pair**. Downloads crea