BlenderDMX Addon Blog

BlenderDMX Addon 2.0.4 Released

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  • (Catalan) [Bernat Rubiol Brusau]
  • (French) [CharlyTheSneaky]
• Adjust mdns service name
• Fix beam geometry reference processing

BlenderDMX Addon 2.0.3 Released

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

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

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

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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BlenderDMX Addon 1.9.6 Released

v1.9.6

• Ensure that empty geometries are handled correctly
• Update pygdtf to version 1.2.0

BlenderDMX Addon 1.9.5 Released

Add full support for DMX Breaks

• Allow proper patching of fixtures with multiple DMX entry points (DMX Breaks)
• Centralize GDTF loading to gain speed
• Add possibility to Set Eevee Cutoff distance on selected fixtures
• Accommodate to latest pygdtf changes - use channels directly and so on

There is a migration procedure to make sure older .blend files can be open, but you will have to use the Fixtures → Edit → Advanced Edit → OK, to have the fixtures’ data to be re-generated.

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BlenderDMX Addon 1.9.4 Released

Improve control of color mixing of child geometries

Fixtures with multiple levels of sub geometries where control attributes of color mixing or dimmer are linked to a parent geometry can now be controlled even if the parent geometry is several layers up the chain.

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BlenderDMX Addon 1.9.3 Released

Initial support for a control passing down the geometry tree

• Allow control of beams from attributes on parenting geometries
• MVR-xchange:
  • Handle not existing commits
  • Show info about downloaded commits
  • Use UUID in uppercase
  • Ensure FileName is not empty
  • Make StationName definition global
• Update pygdtf with better system to get geometry parent
• Adjust formatting of fixture.py

See the changelong for more information, or developers can look at git log for full details.

BlenderDMX Addon 1.9.2 Released

Improvements to MVR-xchange local version

• MVR-xchange
  • overall improvements to the TCP communication
  • use per blend file application/station UUID
  • add configuration for mDNS group compatibility
  • handle UUIDs with changed character casing
• reformat all code and add uv based python helpers
• update pygdtf and pymvr

Changelog

See the changelong for more information, or developers can look at git log for full details.