bump ?

repeat mode wrapping is not compatible with rectangular textures in opengl. max 6 simply handles this better than max 5.

Thanks Rob for the reply.

How is it possible then to get a continuous repeat mode in a system using a 2-pass rendering, given the fact that :

- with @rectangle 0 you get the captured window put in a gl_texture texture sized a multiple of 2^N (which does not match your screen size, in most case), and the results is unwanted border in the texture - with @rectangle 1, you cannot use tex_plane_s and tex_plane_t to resize the texture (which format does match the screen size in this case)

See example patch below if what I explain here is not clear.

NB : I am aware that it is possible to get something better than the "checker" background (e.g. with @defaultimage black), but left if on purpose to make my problem more visible.

hi vincent.

below is a patch demonstrating how to do this with max 6 and jit.gl.node. the trick is to use the "sendoutput" message to jit.gl.node, which allows you to change the default behavior of the output texture, as well as disabling @adapt and setting the dims explicitly.

then you want to use @transform_reset 1 on your first jit.gl.gridshape, so that it completely fills the captured texture.

i'm not sure if this is possible with max 5.

Thanks Rob for the reply.

I am aware that jit.gl.node is a very good candidate to achieve this kind of multiple bus system... * However * (and apart from the fact that i am looking for a Max5 solution at the moment), I remember when I have been testing jit.gl.node that it acts as somehow various opengl "shared context". A consequence is that the way to share a jit.gl.texture bank between various OpenGL busses is to set the context (with drawto) on jit.gl.texture objects at every GL-bus tick.

I have the (maybe wrong) feeling that using a single GL-context and rendering the various pass with the "totexture to render" methode (what do you call it ?) seems more robust optimized.

Any hint on what is the right way to go is ultra-welcome ! aTdHvAaNnKcSe

i'm not sure what you're asking. the patch i posted above is the current recommended way to go about this kind of thing.

FWIW, in theory, one could write a shader in Max 5 which wraps texture coordinates to the modulo range of the texture dimensions even with rectangular textures.

Rob : what I mean is : suppose you have a texture bank filled your favourite pictures, and you want to use these textures in any rendering pass, I guess you solution implies to set all the textures a "drawto" message to all the texture you you in a rendering pass, to set the current context... which I find a bit aukward... Is my purpose clearer ? Or should I send an example patch ?

Joshua : thanks for the idea, I had not thought of it !