It does help, thanks! I hadn't seen the updates to the format wiki with the model building outline. Some of the descriptions loose a little something in translation...I think, especially when describing the 'offsets' in model building.
I've just uploaded my very first simple GDTF profile to the Share site, a 16 bit Dimmer as a ETC Source4 19 degree ERS with custom models! It took me a few attempts to get all the entry fields hooked up correctly...lol. Good thing you can delete files, ;).
This was my testing of the waters...as it were. Web based builder seemed fairly stable, had some issues with editing an existing profile/default fixtureType with custom models and naming the Geometry based upon the workflow...if I referenced/uploaded the model file first then linked the Geometry to the existing Model, I could not edit the Geometry 'Name', arrives as Geometry1, Geometry2, etc.... When I Added a Geometry, then named it "Body","Beam", then referenced the 3DS files, all things seems to link fine.
Also, in the DMX entries, if you edit a fixture to be 16 bit resolution and then all the channel sets and function sets to 16 bit to follow along, if you change Tabs to another step and then return to DMX, all the channel set 16 bit entry fields revert to 8 bit, except for the main Resolution at the head of the file. Not sure if by simply adjusting the 'Resolution' to 16 bit then defaults all the channel sets and function sets to 16 as well, but entry fields read 8 bit. That seemed odd, or I don't understand the paradigm for 'resolution' beyond 8 bit.
Thanks!! Cheers! Time to celebrate the inaugural visualization in GDTF!
Rex
