Numerous translations have been added. Many thanks to all contributors.
The pygdtf and pymvr libraries have received several improvements. These, together with some other changes in BlenderDMX Addon, should further improve GDTF and MVR imports.
This release contains support for new attributes (Gobo2, Iris, CTC, CTO, CTB, PanRotate, TiltRotate) and more. Gobo 1, Gobo 2 and Iris can all be used together, for combined projection like in the real world. The color system (mixing, color wheel and color temperature control) mixes all parts together in an additive fashion.
To make fixture placement simpler, new Align and Distribute panel has been added. MVR Import has received a lot of loving care thanks to @nrgsille76 . The MVR Import/Export and GDTF Import are now available in Blender’s Import/Export menu, the GDTF import allows to patch fixtures right away. When working with differently bright devices, it is sometimes useful to set the spot light to a brighter level - new “Multiply beams intensity” settings allows exactly that.
New MVR Export allows export of fixtures (only fixtures, no other 3D objects yet) with their patching info, color and focus points, into a single layer, which is sufficient to move the patch from BlenderDMX Addon to consoles like BlinderKitten.
NRGSille has helped to include updated version of the 3DS file importer. This, together with import parameters adjustment, results in better import of GDTF and MVR files with 3DS models. New additive colors like White, Amber or Lime are now supported.
Added support for PosiStageNet (PSN) protocol. PosiStageNet (PSN) is an open protocol to receive position information from different trackers connected to a PSN server. In BlenderDMX Addon, multiple Trackers (PSN server connections) with multiple Tracking Targets (PSN slots) can be created and moving lights or any other objects can be linked to these as followers. When patching fixtures, the autogenerated name is now based on the device name. The BlenderDMX Addon gobo in the Moving beam was made nicer, the Blender logo has been added as a gobo too 🙂.
What started as a bunch of small improvements and fixes resulted in a huge code re-organizing, together with speed optimizations and also with nice enhancements to GDTF models loading. The Addon has been reworked into an Extension for Blender 4.2 (in beta as of June 2024) and the new BlenderDMX Addon extension is now available on the official online Extension site. The bundled moving head GDTF now includes zoom and gobos, to make it easier to start exploring BlenderDMX Addon. New RGB glowing tube GDTF has been bundled in.
Thanks to @Bartel-C8, we have now identified the source of crash on Intel macOS 🎉. Devices can now show Device name, or DMX address, or Fixture ID in the 2D layout view. Project data can now not only be exported/imported but also completely cleared out (erased). Several small but important things were fixed.