We have created a custom repository for BlenderDMX releases. This keeps the release and update process fully under our control and reduces the risk of being locked out from providing updates to BlenderDMX users. This release includes the full BlenderDMX feature set, including network protocols such as sACN, ArtNet, OSC, PSN, MVR-xchange, GDTF Share integration and so on.
Full Changelog: https://github.com/open-stage/blender-dmx/compare/v2.2.1…v2.2.2
Importing MVR files - especially large ones - can take some time. This update adds real-time progress feedback and allows the import to be cancelled at any moment by pressing Escape. Because the import process runs in multiple stages, cancelling early may leave some objects unfinished or not yet in their final positions.
Explicit management of MVR Layers has been added. MVR Layers management could historically be done in an implicit way through Blender collections, new Layers management adds easy add/rename/remove/hide/show/select/assign/unassign options. Same management has also been added to MVR Classes.
Allow to display only used - patched universes. When adding a universe, allow to specify universe number and network type (BlenderDMX, ArtNet, sACN).
Improved GDTF and MVR handling. Translations updates.
Full Changelog: https://github.com/open-stage/blender-dmx/compare/v2.1.7…v2.1.8
The original simple color addition has been updated to mixing in linear RGB for additive colors and to multiplicative transmission in linear RGB for subtractive colors. Color Wheels are now mixed together, controlling RGBA, RGBL fixtures from within Blender has been improved, and when there no gobo and no iris, the beam is now clean. See full changelog below.
As some fixtures in the GDTF Share now come up with channels with resolution more then 16bit, ensure that these can be parsed without failing, while downscaling them to 16bit or 8bit, depending on usage. Make the internal Programmer to control Pan/Tilt as 16bit, for precise positioning inside Blender.
With this release we add support for high quality meshes (if present) in GDTF. Multiple GDTF devices can be imported in both normal and high mesh quality at the same time. MVR Import also allows to set the mesh quality preference.
Previously, fixture names relied on Blender’s structural Name property, which requires all names to be unique. While this is useful in other contexts, it is not suitable for device naming. This has now been resolved by introducing a dedicated fixture-name property within BlenderDMX.