BlenderDMX Addon Blog

BlenderDMX Addon 2.0.9 Released

By vanous
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  • MVR:
    • Initial support more MVR objects during import, like VideoScreens, Projectors, and Support
    • Add some MVR import/export filter options
    • Improve layers import and export, to keep original fixture layer assignment and layer names, especially useful for round-trip cooperation
    • Initial support for fixture direct parenting - direct MVR parent is now set as a Blender parent
    • Handle MVRs with empty fixture GDTF mode
    • Handle some occasionally missing structures in MVR
    • MVR-xchange:
      • Speed up packets packing/unpacking
      • Fix header unpacking to unsigned int values
    • Improvements to the pymvr library, update BlenderDMX to use the latest version 1.0.1
  • Optimize rendering for incoming signals (PSN, sACN, Art-Net)
  • Added more translated strings (German, French, Portuguese, Czech)

BlenderDMX Addon 2.0.8 Released

By vanous
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Improved Art-Net 4 compatibility

As Art-Net 4 no longer supports broadcasting of DMX values, the BlenderDMX Addon must ensure to correctly advertise required DMX universes, in order to receive DMX from Art-Net 4 transmitters. Michael Wigard has deeply investigated this and improved the ArtPollReply, to conform to the specification.

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BlenderDMX Addon 2.0.7 Released

By vanous
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2.0.7

  • Translated using Weblate:
    • (Chinese (Simplified Han script)) [大学没毕业]
    • (Swedish) [Daniel Nylander]
    • (Polish) [Franciszek Libera]
  • Handle GDTFs with models with both a file (even missing) and a primitive type defined
  • Update most device profiles:
    • Add Shutter/Strobe
    • Add thumbnail
  • Adjust name of generic fixture in MVR import
  • Update to pygdtf 2.0.6, update physical values parsing

BlenderDMX Addon 2.0.6 Released

By vanous
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MVR-xchange - improving the MVR workflow

This updates allows you to now move faster if cooperating with other creators by speeding up the network transmission, allowing to share any MVR file without having to load it into the scene first, and save received MVR shared commit as a file.

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BlenderDMX Addon 2.0.5 Released

By vanous
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Initial support for multi-station MVR-xchange

This update extends the local (TCP) implementation of the MVR-xchange protocol to allow exchange of MVR files in a group of stations.

  • MVR-xchange - initial support for multiple connections
  • Progress of Swedish translation by Daniel Nylander
  • Set all protocols as disabled when a blender file is being open
  • Add option to Beam setting to disable Temporal Reprojection in Eevee
  • Ensure that fixture can always be removed from the list of fixtures even if the fixture had been damaged by manual edits

BlenderDMX Addon 2.0.4 Released

By vanous
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  • Translated using Weblate
    • (Swedish) [Daniel Nylander]
    • (Catalan) [Bernat Rubiol Brusau]
    • (French) [CharlyTheSneaky]
  • Adjust mdns service name
  • Fix beam geometry reference processing

BlenderDMX Addon 2.0.3 Released

By vanous
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Add Initial Support for a Light-bulb Like Devices

  • Add initial support for DMX controlled bulb light like devices
  • Use model of geometry reference if provided
  • Update pygdtf to 1.2.5
    • Handle parsing of incorrect DmxValue values
    • Return default FixtureType if ElementTree.fromstring fails on malformed XML

BlenderDMX Addon 2.0.2 Released

By vanous
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Allow fixture edits while preserving addressing

This release adds the ability of device editing while preserving DMX address, universe and/or the Fixture ID. Strobing is now really flashing and not blinking as before. When Cleaning project data, old BlenderDMX profiles are now being removed. MVR export/import has been improved.

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BlenderDMX Addon 2.0.1 Released

By vanous
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Small re-adjustments after the big 2.0 release

These are small but important things that didn’t make it into the 2.0.0 release and they result in better GDTF functioning, slight speed improvements, include some fixes and bring updates to the packaged GDTF profiles.

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BlenderDMX Addon 2.0.0 Released

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Support for GDTF real-world physical properties

The data provided in the GDTF files includes not only 3D models, gobo images… or the necessary DMX control descriptions, but it additionally contains measurements of movement ranges, beam angles, rotation speeds, and other physical parameters. This release of BlenderDMX Addon adds initial support for utilizing these measurements on supported visualized device properties, transforming it from a “nice effects generator” into a lighting visualizer representing real lighting fixtures behavior.

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