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DIN SPEC 15800 General Device Type Format (GDTF) and My Virtual Rig (MVR) File Format description DIN SPEC 15801
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Add attributes for physical barn doors #7

Open petrvanekrobe opened 4 years ago

petrvanekrobe commented 4 years ago

Right now, to make barndoors working, one needs to use tilt. This is working as intended in MA3 visualizer, but is not the correct semantics.

Proposal for attribute:

Name="Barndoor(n)" Pretty="BDoor(n)" ActivationGroup="Shaper" Feature="Shapers.Shapers" PhysicalUnit="Angle"

For the rotation itself, one can right now use pan, which again, is not correct.I have not tried whether using ShaperRot would work (i presume it should, not implemented at the moment).

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LxLasso commented 3 years ago

Unless the barndoors are motorised (DMX controlled) and an integral part of the fixture, ie. not an accessory, I would not include them in the GDTF.

Instead I would focus on defining what sort of accessories can be fitted to the fixture. Usually these are conventional fixtures with a slot in front where one could also fit a filter holder (or two) as well as a scroller. I think I would simply add the information whether the fixture has a "slot" in front where one can fit something, and if so what the width and height of that slot is. (Here the discussion expands into "internal slots" where you can fit an iris, gobo holder, gobo rotator etc.)

Another reason to not define the barndoors as a part of the fixture might be that you could choose between different barndoors, such as pole operated or not.