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GDTF and MVR Booth at LDI 2024

GDTF will be exhibiting at LDI 2024 on the Booth #2145 with live demos, exclusive insights, and fun swag.

Posted December 6, 2024  ‐ Categories: GDTF, MVR


GDTF Share Report for November 2024

GDTF Share report for the month of November 2024

Posted December 1, 2024  ‐ 1 min read  ‐ Categories: GDTF, GDTF Share


GDTF Share Improvements - November 2024

The GDTF Share has undergone several quality of life enhancements.

Posted November 29, 2024  ‐ 1 min read  ‐ Categories: GDTF, GDTF Share


Unreal Engine 5.5 with Enhanced GDTF and MVR Support

Epic Games has released Unreal Engine 5.5 featuring major enhancements to Virtual Production, and with GDTF compliance to the DMX Plugin for interfacing with GDTF and MVR enabled control devices and software. Virtual Production tools and many of it's VR support tools are now production ready and are surpassing competitors like Capture and others. See more details after the break.

Posted November 13, 2024  ‐ 2 min read  ‐ Categories: GDTF, MVR, Unreal Engine


GDTF Share Report for October 2024

GDTF Share report for the month of October 2024

Posted November 1, 2024  ‐ 1 min read  ‐ Categories: GDTF, GDTF Share


Lighting and structures with StageHex on SketchUp

The StageHex extension for SketchUp, which offers some GDTF and MVR functionality in its paid plans, appears to be generally available now on the Hexcale website.

Posted October 28, 2024  ‐ Categories: GDTF, MVR


GDTF and MVR Improvements in grandMA3 Version 2.1.1.2

Improvements to GDTF/MVR in the 2.1.1.2 release of grandMA3 software.

Posted October 20, 2024  ‐ 2 min read  ‐ Categories: GDTF, MVR, MA Lighting


Compulite Announces General Device Type Format (GDTF) Fixture Import for New Vibe Software

Compulite announced support for fixture import via General Device Type Format (GDTF) in the Vibe Software Update Version R_6.0. Read more details in the announcement. This is a great news for all Compulite customers who can benefit from more the 5000 GDTF device files in the GDTF Share, with about half of the files being provided and supported by the devices manufacturers.

Posted October 11, 2024  ‐ Categories: GDTF


Blender MVR importer io_scene_mvr

A Blender addon io_scene_mvr has been approved for the Blender Extension website. The addon, originally based on the BlenderDMX code but without the live DMX previsualization capabilities, offers GDTF and MVR import.

Posted October 7, 2024  ‐ Categories: MVR, GDTF


GDTF Fixture Finder

We have launched a GDTF Fixture Finder, a tool to search for GDTF devices files by name, manufacturer and also by describing the required DMX channel layout of a device you are searching for.

Posted October 6, 2024  ‐ 1 min read  ‐ Categories: GDTF


GDTF Share Report for September 2024

GDTF Share report for the month of September 2024

Posted October 1, 2024  ‐ 1 min read  ‐ Categories: GDTF, GDTF Share


GDTF Quiz - Identify This Light!

Due to popular demand, we have created an 'Identify This Light!' Quiz based on devices in the GDTF Share database. The quiz refreshes daily and features a set of devices provided by manufacturers.

Posted September 29, 2024  ‐ 1 min read  ‐ Categories: GDTF