March 27th, 2011
Quick update
Haven’t posted much in a while. I recently completed some touring visuals for Hooray for Earth and got to play with them live here in Brooklyn. I also just wrapped up a music video for Banjo or Freakout’s song Idiot Rain which will be debuting any day now. Here is a screenshot of that:
Slowly putting together something for a sort of “projection mapping how to” to the best of my abilities. In the meantime, I’ve been working on my own projection mapping project with a buckyball shape. Building everything in quartz composer with a lot of Kineme and 1024 plugins…then eventually will farm everything out to VDMX for any other live elements. I’ll hopefully be able to share any useful pieces I make as well, but the kineme and 1024 things make stuff work so nicely already that it’s hard to improve anything. Here some pics of what I’ve got as some test setups:
And the rest here
December 28th, 2010
1024 Bezier Warp – Expanded QC Comp for VDMX
First, make sure you have 1024’s amazing Bezier Warp QCplugin: http://1024d.wordpress.com/ (get it from their “box” on the left side of the page)
Second, grab my expanded version of their example patch for use in VDMX: 1024 Bezier Warp - Expanded Example Patch (1138 downloads) (see below for comp that includes POINT STORAGE)
This comp will be really useful for those of you with VDMX beta 8 access. Although it still is extremely functional for other versions, you just won’t have mouse interaction in the VDMX preview window.
I did the rote work to make all 16 warp points available and gave them additional offset controls for more fine-tuning within VDMX. Next I just need to figure out how to tackle point storage, since most of the would be reset every time you reload your VDMX preset…unless you’re just using the sliders for offset values. Then again…all of this kind of work will probably be moot when the actual MadMapper app comes out…but I’m really impressed by the ease of mapper…seems like it will certainly come in handy. Here’s some screenshots, and below that is Vidvox’s very helpful video on getting it all up and running
EDIT: Got point storage working..sort of. It’s a bit clunky, but it definitely works. Requires a whole lot of tedious patching and Kineme’s File tools and Structure tools, but I’ll try and post a working version soon.
UPDATE: Here is the hacky point storage method. Make sure to read the readme..it’s not all self explanatory: 1024 Bezier Warp - Point Storage (798 downloads) You need kineme’s file tools and structure tools installed for it to work! Would love to hear if there’s a more streamlined way to do it!
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