David Beaudry

Has anyone made a successful networked-based connection (e.g. OSC)between maxmsp & motionbuilder?

Hi,
Has anyone made a successful networked-based connection (e.g. OSC)between maxmsp & motionbuilder?
Thanks,
David


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> Has anyone made a successful networked-based connection (e.g. OSC) 

We did one by writing an OSC plug-in for Motion Builder.

Actually, not exactly: we ended up with a TCP (not UDP) OSC *client* 

in Motion Builder, presumably for hysterical reasons to do with the 

internal driver architecture of MB, so I had to knock up a TCP-to-UDP 

OSC proxy. The whole thing was rather hard work and not very reliable.

> Has anyone made a successful networked-based connection (e.g. OSC) 
> between maxmsp & motionbuilder?

Actually, not exactly: we ended up with a TCP (not UDP) OSC *client*  
in Motion Builder, presumably for hysterical reasons to do with the  
internal driver architecture of MB, so I had to knock up a TCP-to-UDP  
OSC proxy. The whole thing was rather hard work and not very reliable.

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You aren't kidding about it being burried...I feel like I followed all the links and still can't find anything! ;)

We've got a little (non-OSC) UDP plugin that was written here, but it was a one off and had very specific, and limiting, commands that I am not sure I can make work for this application. And the UDP messages are to be 8 byte, composed of 4 16-bit integer! That's been a fun task to handle in java (given my limited java skills).

Just out of curiosity, where were your reliability issues? I've heard that MIDI is a crap shoot with Motionbuilder...but was hoping that a specially built plugin might be a better, and more stable, approach. Reliability is a big issue on this particular project I am working on (like it isn't everywhere, I suppose!).

do you mean over a remote network or a one to one local one?

On 13 May 2007, at 20:11, David Beaudry wrote:

>
> Hi,
> Has anyone made a successful networked-based connection (e.g. OSC) 
> between maxmsp & motionbuilder?
> Thanks,
> David
>
>


over a local network. not one-to-one.
david


I was on a workshop and they used motionbuilder along a rf controled 

3Dpositioning system and it worked fine, they used simple udp and osc.

don't know what the precission was though

On 14 May 2007, at 08:48, David Beaudry wrote:

I was on a workshop and they used motionbuilder along a rf controled  
3Dpositioning system and it worked fine, they used simple udp and osc.
don't know what the precission was though

>
> over a local network. not one-to-one.
> david
>


can you give me any more info on the workshop and who I might try to contact for more info?

networked-based connection between max & motionbuilder