Articles

Get the XRAY Package by Wesley Smith

Wesley Smith is a really smart guy. Many of us know and appreciate his extensive work as a Cycling '74 engineer, including rewriting and modernizing much of the Jitter code and co-creating Gen with Graham Wakefield. Before all of that, Wes got our attention by creating an incredibly useful set of Jitter objects called XRAY. If you are getting deep into Jitter, especially anything involving CV.jit or generative OpenGL geometry, then you'll want to have this package in your toolbox. Although many of them have seemingly esoteric purposes, or require some knowledge of Linear Algebra, the remarkable thing about these objects is that they solve some of the toughest problems you run into when you're deep into a Jitter patch and need to manipulate a matrix in a really specific way. These objects were obviously created by someone with real hands on experience with Jitter.

In my own personal use, I find I can't survive without xray.jit.cellcoords, xray.jit.cellvalue, and xray.jit.grid2tri. I recommend exploring this package, and then letting it sit around and checking it out every time you run into a seemingly impossible problem with a Jitter Matrix. There's a good chance you'll find the solution there. Get XRAY inside the Max 7 Package Manager where it has been updated to support both Windows and Mac (32 and 64-bit).

by Andrew Benson on January 26, 2016

Creative Commons License
phiol's icon

Although this is an absolutely amazing package, it still doesn't seem to work in 64bit mode :-/
Maybe I'm doing something wrong. But I doubt it.
ps. thanks for the heads up on this package Andrew
phiol

vichug's icon

would be pretty cool if the package manager description of a package would include a word about 32/64 bit compatibility :)

LSka's icon

It works on Mac 64 bit (Max 7.1, OSX Mavericks).
Maybe you have old xray externals in your search path?

phiol's icon

LSKA !! I shoulda thought of that. All works fine! thanks dude

Fábio Santos's icon

Hey guys...
Not working on Max8..

doganos wont's icon

windows x64 max8.external is not working. any suggestions?