Connect Zwobot and Geometrum
Hello everyone,
I have 3 devices that I like.
1) the Zwobot device (left) That allow me to load mp4 videos and to select on or an other with 2) the Exrack (center) by clicking the a knob of the chosen line. 3) And I also have a geometrum device, that make possible to genrate and control nice geometric shapes.
Problem : I'd like to visualize the render of Geometrum in the same window of the others, when I decide to, by click an other line of the Exrack for example. There is probably a patch that can help to to do it.
Or another solution ? It may be possible to create a kind of "super window" that will display the content of all the others?
I'm playing live with ableton, so I can't change the window manually while I'm performing...
Is anyone can help me with it ?
I'm just starting to learn Max 8.
Thanks,
T
My assumption is that Zwobot supports sending to Syphon or Spout, which means you can customize the other device to receive this syphon/spout texture stream and mix it in with that devices context.
The simplest way I can imagine this happening is to send the texture stream to a jit.gl.layer object, use the layer attribute to set whether it renders behind or on top of the existing content, and adjust the color attribute alpha value to fade it in and out.
You will need to install either Syphon or Spout (depending on your platform) from the Package Manager, and add a jit.gl.syphonclient or jit.gl.spoutreceiver to the device, and bang it with the context draw bang, then patch the output to the jit.gl.layer (or jit.gl.videoplane, or whatever geometry you want to texture).
Thanks for your answer. Yes, Zwobot is working with Syphon. I understand the logic of your solution, but I don't know how to do it for now... I'm gonna start lessons soon, and then I'll try it :)