gdtfmaster's comments

On: Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and Nvidia form all...

[gdtfmaster]

For entertainment, there has been MVR - My Virtual Rig - specification. The My Virtual Rig file format allows programs to share data and geometry of a scene for the entertainment industry.

Official repo: [1]

Current Spec: [2]

WIP for DIN Spec release: [3]

[1] https://github.com/mvrdevelopment/spec/

[2] https://github.com/mvrdevelopment/spec/blob/main/mvr-spec.md

[3] https://github.com/mvrdevelopment/spec/pull/153

On: Google is already pushing WEI into Chromium

[gdtfmaster]

Good suggestion, did that, thank you.

On: General Device Type Format is to describe devices ...

[gdtfmaster]

GDTF has been created to be able to describe static or moving heads, trusses, distro boxes, lasers... in an open, license free yet DIN Spec certified format.

On: Tell HN: Unreal Engine and Vectorworks for Live Ev...

[gdtfmaster]

Webinar with Patrick Wambold, Senior Solution Architect at Epic Games. Wednesday, April 19, 2:00pm ET. Make sure to register to receive access link.

On: BlinderKitten: Free lighting software

[gdtfmaster]

I have no connection to the project, but in the navbar is a link to their YT page.

[thih9 → gdtfmaster]

Sample video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AFV0ez8TPQ

On: BlinderKitten: Free lighting software

[gdtfmaster]

BlinderKitten is built on top of JUCE framework, with the OrganicUI.

There are several open source DMX lighting consoles for desktop, this one seems particularly nice and with fresh controlling paradigm ideas.

[pabs3 → gdtfmaster]

Can you link to those other projects?

[gdtfmaster → pabs3]

Sure.

The device definitions come as GDTF files, see the spec and other projects that utilize GDTF here [1]

Juce framework [2]

OrganicUI [3]

[1] https://gdtf.eu/docs/list-of-projects/

[2] https://juce.com/

[3] https://github.com/benkuper/juce_organicui/

[pabs3 → gdtfmaster]

Is there a linter/checker for this file format?

[gdtfmaster → pabs3]

There are xsd and schematron schemas [1], see docs generated from the xsd [2]. The GDTF editor on https://gdtf-share.com [3] also has deeper internal validation some of the data logic.

[1] https://github.com/mvrdevelopment/spec

[2] https://gdtf.eu/gdtf/xsd/xsd/

[3] https://gdtf-share.com/

[am_lu → pabs3]

https://www.qlcplus.org

On: BlenderDMX Release 1.0.0 Vanilla

[gdtfmaster]

BlenderDMX is an open source, Blender based tool to visualize DMX lights. The lights are defined via GDTF (an open format to describe these devices). It is exciting to see a free, GPL-3.0 licensed visualizer. It still leaves much to be desired, but it seems to be a good starting point for an open source solution to DMX visualization.

On: Why Unreal Engine 5.1 is a Deal [video]

[gdtfmaster]

5.1 also includes improved DMX Plugin for proper lighting shows, the plugin adds support for DMX over Ethernet (sACN, Art-Net) and allows lighting fixtures based on devices imported via GDTF [1], [2].

[1] http://gdtf.eu/

[2] https://gdtf-share.com/

[brookst → gdtfmaster]

I’m way into DMX and lighting but only familiar with Unreal as a game/3D engine. What kinds of lighting things are people doing with Unreal?

[jasonjamerson → brookst]

One big thing is Virtual Production, where we shoot video in front of large LED screens showing a 3D scene in Unreal. DMX allows seamless integration of live show control lighting with the lighting in Unreal.