Marvin Light Control

Marvin Light Control (MLC for short) is a DmxShow Creation and Playback tool. It utilizes a Timeline based approach to time and playback Light and Stage effects. The Dmx protocol with its wide use cases and Network adaptions makes it highly compatible with most common stage fixtures. Currently, the usage of Endpoints via sACN , ArtNet (untested) and Entec enabled USB-Interfaces is supported.

Note: MLC is in a pre-alpha state most of its features are only partially implemented, if at all, and the api and data structure will change. We do not recommend using MLC in any situations that go beyond playing around yet!

Tools

• SACNView is a great tool for debugging and viewing raw sACN output.

• For debugging purposes Swagger and Rapidoc is supported under (/api /rapi)

• MLC works towards supporting all fixtures from OFL out of the box.

Usage

While the Project is in early development no prebuilt executables are provided.

To run MLC on your local machine the following steps will help you:

1. Make sure you have Rust version 1.75 or newer
2. Because the frontend utilizes Rusts WebAssembly capabilities make sure you have installed the ' wasm32-unknown-unknown' target installed. rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown
3. As the frontend toolkit MLC uses dioxus so to compile the fronted you have to install the dioxus-cli ``cargo install dioxus-cli`
4. MLC contains a justfile to make the compilation process easier. Using just you can just clone the repo and run just r in the main directory.
5. If you want to compile and run manually you need to:
   • First compile the ui by moving into the mlc_diosxus directory and running dx build --release
   • You then can run then run MLC by moving back up into the parent dir and running cargo run --bin mlc_engine from there.

Roadmap

V0.1.1

• Relayout Programm panel
• update effect timeline
• make keyframe edits not janky anymore (in seperate section no popover)
• make keyframes dragable
• Actually test

V0.1.2

• Support more fixture features
• support matrix features
• Async Project loading with progress stream and ui
• revisit all TODOs in code
• revisit sliders to make dragging more suitable
• improve patch overlay

V0.1.3

• Support easing between keyframes
• start a basic 3d viewer
• improve layout of show panel
• add push to play option on show panel

V0.1.4

• add support for variable values in channels
• improve 3d viewer
• add mobile playback

V0.1.5

• add a fixture type creator
• Write an actual license
• work on a deploy pipeline

Misc

• Fix Okapi openapi to handle lifetimes properly openapi_attr\mod.rs get_add_operation_fn_name (Requires local copy of my fork until merged)
• As soon as it gets reöeased implement modal and popover via popover api

Feature requests / Contribution

If you have a feature you want to see in the Program or even think about implementing it yourself, feel free to open an issue describing your idea. We have a lot of ideas where we want to take MLC in the future and would love to discuss your ideas with you. The same is with bugs feel free to report any bugs you find, but keep in mind MLC is not nearly in a stable state so keeping the software 100% bug free is not a priority (yet).