CoverFlow interface

Jordi Puig's icon

Hi all,

Its been a while that I don't come here...
I'm about to develop an interface somehow similar to mac's Cover Flow, to display many images moving right to left, zooming, etc... also i will run some videos in the background.
Last time I worked on max I remember the best way to do that it would be by using jit.gl.multiple and a jit.gl.texture.

I would like to know if anyone has some ideas to best approach such a patch.
Any general recommendations?

Please expert users, drop me a line just to know if I'm missing something important :)

THANKS!
j

ćwiek's icon

i think, that jit.gl.multiple + texture would be great.
personaly only thing that i can reccomend is to put textures to poly :)

Rob Ramirez's icon

i think the jit.anim.path object would be helpful for something like this.

Max Patch
Copy patch and select New From Clipboard in Max.

here's a patch showing the basics.
let me know if you have any questions.

Jordi Puig's icon

Hey thanks so much napentro and Robert!
Robert I'm looking at your patch. It looks like i will get some good tips there.

It is about alpha issues in jit.gl.multiple.
Feel free to have a look at it.
thanks!
j