TDSOJohn

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[–] TDSOJohn@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks for the detailed explanation, not the answer I hoped for but definitely the answer I needed! Will look into all 3 options, thanks again!

[–] TDSOJohn@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

First of all thank you for your answer! What I meant with animation is the light color modulation itself, so I would basically need to listen to incoming driver data and record it to play it afterwards as an animation (yes, we would export to usdz in order to import in reality composer).

 

Good morning,

Hope this is not a stupid question, I am very new to Blender. So, my setup is:

  • 3d env built from iPad photogrammetry

  • we insert some lasers (a simple cylinder with emission node)

  • we control the lasers using QLC+ --> artnet --> BlenderDMX and a python expression that modulates the emission color for every laser from a separate dmx channel.

We would now love to be able to store the dmx animation directly in blender as keyframes in order to export the animation and put it back on the iPad for AR simulation. Is there any way to record the driver data in real time?

[–] TDSOJohn@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Thanks, I already solved it! I didn’t know that Drivers exist. The solution was to create a driver for each of the rgb color coordinates of the emitter, connect to a dmx channel and divide the value by 255.

I then connected to qlc+ using a virtual dmx channel and could control everything 😌

 

Hello everyone, I have a question about Blender properties. I'm reading BlenderDMX documentation and at page BlenderDMX docs paragraph "BlenderDMX DMX driver for Blender" it says that I can use DMX signals to control any Blender property. I also have modelled some lasers and would love to control some of the nodes' properties (Emission Color mostly) with DMX for a simulation. Does anyone know if that's possible and how to do it? A search for "blender properties" and "blender property keywords" gave me nothing.