jit.newbie in love with jit.boids needs some help!

have added a videoplane to project a background

and I need to keep the boids inside a definite space

so that the visual perspective of the whole scene is maintained:

they shouldn't go under about 20% of "screen height".

I guess the "flyrect" coordinates together with "repel" and "edgedist" should make it,

but they're not really working: it seems that these parameters influence the rectangle in which the boids are created when you reset the module, but then they escape wherever they want and there's no way to keep 'em in the flyrect! Schaixe boids!

The only method I found is to keep em a little bit attracted to a point that's inside the "good rect", but it's a weak solution...

Am I missing something trivial or what???

I'm sending the (x,y,z) coordinates of the boids to VVVV via OSC,

to attach 3D models. I unroll the output of jit.boids3d using 

and feed the "listlength" param from the boids parameter "number" to jit.spill to keep the indexes aligned. 

Y on plane 1: plane 1 should contain X coords, not Y, no?

Z on plane 2: plane 2 should contain Y coords, not Z, no?

X on plane 3: plane 3 should contain Z coords, not X, no?

I know I'm making some stupid mistakes but can't understand!!!

Should I use jit.iter insted of jit.spill???

I'd be very grateful to anyone who can help me

sending big waves of love through the ionosphere,

Hallo maxxers,
jit.newbie in love with jit.boids needs some help!

I'm playing with jit.boids3d,
have added a videoplane to project a background
and I need to keep the boids inside a definite space
so that the visual perspective of the whole scene is maintained:
they shouldn't go under about 20% of "screen height".

I guess the "flyrect" coordinates together with "repel" and "edgedist" should make it,
but they're not really working: it seems that these parameters influence the rectangle in which the boids are created when you reset the module, but then they escape wherever they want and there's no way to keep 'em in the flyrect! Schaixe boids!
The only method I found is to keep em a little bit attracted to a point that's inside the "good rect", but it's a weak solution...

Another thing that perplexes me:
I'm sending the (x,y,z) coordinates of the boids to VVVV via OSC,
to attach 3D models. I unroll the output of jit.boids3d using 
"jit.spill @plane 1" to get X coords
"jit.spill @plane 2" to get Y coords
"jit.spill @plane 3" to get Z coords
and feed the "listlength" param from the boids parameter "number" to jit.spill to keep the indexes aligned. 
It seems to work ok BUT I got 
Y on plane 1: plane 1 should contain X coords, not Y, no?
Z on plane 2: plane 2 should contain Y coords, not Z, no?
X on plane 3: plane 3 should contain Z coords, not X, no?

What am I doing wrong,
I know I'm making some stupid mistakes but can't understand!!!
Should I use jit.iter insted of jit.spill???

I'd be very grateful to anyone who can help me
sending big waves of love through the ionosphere,
bless,
kk

jit-boids3d-flyrect

Note that planes are ZERO based, not ONE based. @plane 0 = X, @plane 1 = Y, @plane 2 = Z.

I'm trying to solve the other issue of "containing" the boids inside a defined rectangle, but I think that in its current implementation, the "walls" are just one the many parameters used to calculate the velocity, so depending on the configuration of all the other parameters, the elements just "escape" the walls...

this is what I managed to understand looking at the boids3d source code, but I'm not a programmer.

I guess that modifying the source code to give priority to the bounding rectangle weight in the formula used to calculate the velocity vectors, it would be possible to keep all the elements inside a bounding rectangle. But this goes way beyond my skills...

If anyone can give hints or suggest possible solutions

Right!!! I should've remembered that, 
thank you so much Joshua!

I'm trying to solve the other issue of "containing" the boids inside a defined rectangle, but I think that in its current implementation, the "walls" are just one the many parameters used to calculate the velocity, so depending on the configuration of all the other parameters, the elements just "escape" the walls...
this is what I managed to understand looking at the boids3d source code, but I'm not a programmer.
I guess that modifying the source code to give priority to the bounding rectangle weight in the formula used to calculate the velocity vectors, it would be possible to keep all the elements inside a bounding rectangle. But this goes way beyond my skills...
 If anyone can give hints or suggest possible solutions
it would be really appreciated,
bless,
kk

and if you did make the bounding rectangle more important, you would wind up with birds slamming into invisible walls and sliding along them.

I suggest finding parameters that make the project look good and not worry about whats not possible with the current object.

and if you did make the bounding rectangle more important, you would wind up with birds slamming into invisible walls and sliding along them.  

I suggest finding parameters that make the project look good and not worry about whats not possible with the current object.


jit.boids3d - flyrect???