Changelog

For full details, read the blog post here.

Support for second gobo wheel, iris, continuous pan/tilt, CTC and more

This release contains support for new attributes (Gobo2, Iris, CTC, CTO, CTB, PanRotate, TiltRotate) and more. The Shader three had to be completely re-organized and gobo loading needed to be refactored. There is a migration procedure in place, but very likely, older .blender files will not project gobos correctly. Re-editing fixtures might be needed. It is also possible that previously recorded keyframe animations will not work right away and will need re-adjustments. Sorry for the inconvenience. Read more details in the blog post here.

Complex fixtures can now be controlled via the new Subfixtures menu, allowing precise selection of fixtures' geometries and controlling of only attributes attached to these geometries.

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• Updated translations
• Add support for pan/tilt rotation, add GDTF fixture with continuous rotation
• Add support for Iris
• Add support for Gobo 2 and for Gobo1/Gobo2 combined gobo projection
• Add support for static gobos (Gobo(n) without Gobo(n)Pos or Rot)
• Add support for CTC
• Add display device label also in 3D
• Add subfixture based controlling
• Programmer: show fixture type name if multiple selection is one gdtf type
• Fix: Ensure working Pan/tilt control for fixtures without target
• Fix: Fix keyframe cleaning after addition of PSN
• Fix: Adjust share profile path after changes for custom user data path
• Fix: Ensure that World - Scene - Background exists

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1.7.7

• Adjustments and fixes after path changes

1.7.6

• Adjust timing for first run event

1.7.5

• Allow using user writable directory associated with an extension (extension only)
• Show fixture name in Align panel if it is a selected active object
• Fix count of selected fixtures in Programmer, Align, and other panels
• Ensure that the beam has full diameter at the lense in Cycles for Blender 4.1 and up
• MVR import:
  • Deselect all objects before import to prevent issues
  • Add support for MVR classing to show/hide MVR classes
• GDTF import:
  • Add constraints for multiple heads and yokes
  • Apply transformation after joining the objects
  • Check dimensions with safer method
  • Allow import of existing files
  • Use DMX break overwrite only for Geometry References
  • Transfer root geometry attribute to children for complex fixtures
  • Improved creating constraints and removed pixel factor
• Import_3ds: Fix texture color
• Increase time for collection auto-creation in import/export dialogs
• Update translatable language strings
• Add testing files download and basic testing scripts

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1.7.6

• Adjust timing for first run event

1.7.5

• Allow using user writable directory associated with an extension (extension only)
• Show fixture name in Align panel if it is a selected active object
• Fix count of selected fixtures in Programmer, Align, and other panels
• Ensure that the beam has full diameter at the lense in Cycles for Blender 4.1 and up
• MVR import:
  • Deselect all objects before import to prevent issues
  • Add support for MVR classing to show/hide MVR classes
• GDTF import:
  • Add constraints for multiple heads and yokes
  • Apply transformation after joining the objects
  • Check dimensions with safer method
  • Allow import of existing files
  • Use DMX break overwrite only for Geometry References
  • Transfer root geometry attribute to children for complex fixtures
  • Improved creating constraints and removed pixel factor
• Import_3ds: Fix texture color
• Increase time for collection auto-creation in import/export dialogs
• Update translatable language strings
• Add testing files download and basic testing scripts

Changelog

• Allow using user writable directory associated with an extension (extension only)
• Show fixture name in Align panel if it is a selected active object
• Fix count of selected fixtures in Programmer, Align, and other panels
• Ensure that the beam has full diameter at the lense in Cycles for Blender 4.1 and up
• MVR import:
  • Deselect all objects before import to prevent issues
  • Add support for MVR classing to show/hide MVR classes
• GDTF import:
  • Add constraints for multiple heads and yokes
  • Apply transformation after joining the objects
  • Check dimensions with safer method
  • Allow import of existing files
  • Use DMX break overwrite only for Geometry References
  • Transfer root geometry attribute to children for complex fixtures
  • Improved creating constraints and removed pixel factor
• Import_3ds: Fix texture color
• Increase time for collection auto-creation in import/export dialogs
• Update translatable language strings
• Add testing files download and basic testing scripts

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New Align and Distribute panel, Reworked MVR import, and import/export in Blender menu

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.

• Add Fixture Align and Distribute panel
• Reworking MVR import
• Add global option to Multiply BlenderDMX Spot Lights Intensity
• Add GDTF/MVR Import/Export to Blender menu
• Add Multiply beams intensity settings
• Other small fixes, improvements and translations

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Update zeroconf and io_scene_3ds to pypi available packages.

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Update wheels to eliminate some scanning issues.

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v1.7.1

• fix imports

v1.7.0

Add Initial MVR Export

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 DMX for Blender to consoles like BlinderKitten.

• Initial MVR export - fixtures and focus points on one layer
• Ensure fixture name is unique when importing from MVR
• Fix dimmer if only one beam geometry exists

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Add Initial MVR Export

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 to consoles like BlinderKitten.

• Initial MVR export - fixtures and focus points on one layer
• Ensure fixture name is unique when importing from MVR
• Fix dimmer if only one beam geometry exists

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Support additional additive colors: Amber, Lime, UV, White, WW, CW

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.

• Add icon 'Center to selected' to Programmer
• Add icon 'Clear mixing colors' to Programmer
• Add support for additive mixing: Amber, Lime, UV, White, WW, CW
• Update io_scene_3ds to LTS version and adjust GDTF and MVR to this LTS version
• Show error and a traceback on load3DS error
• Ensure that fixtures can be removed even if their data is broken
• Add RGB versions of the provided source4 fixtures

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Adding support for PosiStageNet (PSN) protocol

• Internal file reorganization, license headers, reformatting
• Make internal programmer to set values for Live DMX view
• Fixtures name autogeneration adjustments
• Add PosiStageNet (PSN) protocol with up to 10 PSN slots
• Add warning message for Blender 4.2. Add link to help to Extras
• Add Blender logo as gobo image to bundled beam
• Improve vectors of BlenderDMX logo gobo in bundled beam fixture

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• Fix showing fixtures after disabling 2D layout view
• Adding RGB glowing tube BlenderDMX provided device
• Adding Zoom and Gobos to the BlenderDMX provided Beam GDTF file
• Fix several visible and invisible issues
• Align release of Extension with the release of an Addon

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• Add custom cutoff_distance to lights to make gobos work in Eevee Next
• Remove onDepsgraph hooks
• optimize code

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• Updating manifest to match new permissions format

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• prevent some crashes during Extension updating