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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
See the changelong for more information, or developers can look at git log for full details.
See the changelong for more information, or developers can look at git log for full details.
Our last release added support for the non-local version of MVR-xchange. For that, not only was the MVR-xchange implemented into the BlenderDMX Addon, but a coordinating server had to be written from scratch. The plan was to eventually re-write the server, to clean up the code and make it more efficient and only during the re-write I have discovered that the implementation, based on the socket.io foundations is not the same as if done in pure websockets. So after the server has been re-written, this release (v1.9.1) of the BlenderDMX addon now contains a re-write of the non-local MVR-xchange to websockets. There is not difference on the user facing side, except that the address to the MVR-xchange server must start with a websockets scheme wss, rather then https.
Working on a lighting project and sharing data with other designers can be supercharged with the MVR-xchange protocol.
After implementing the local version of the MVR-xchange protocol, which is suitable for local networks, this release of the BlenderDMX Addon adds an initial implementation of the internet-wide MVR-xchange. It allows cooperation between parties in different locations. It requires a publicly accessible coordination server, which is now available for testing purposes on BlenderDMX.eu.