Load a png in jitter with Max7 on Windows 8.1

taprik's icon

Seems a dumb question but ...
My OS : windows 8.1
Max si Max7 (64 bits)

And I still can't find a way to load this in a matrix.

Is there a way to load an image file with an alpha channel in Jitter ?
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t7i7l70's icon

jit.qt.movie not sure about alpha support though

taprik's icon

Jit.movie does not work (that's the first thing I try)
Please read this post about windows 8.1 and qt.movie
https://cycling74.com/forums/news-about-maxmspjitter-and-windows-8-1/

I also try to import in a jit.matrix, without success.
It's not a windows 8.1 problem as I can load png file or video with alpha channel with the player class of Openframeworks.

taprik's icon
Max Patch
Copy patch and select New From Clipboard in Max.

I have patched for eleven years with Max and I still can't believe that :
The solution is to use a fpic object in this way.

djlbe's icon

UP , I've got the same problem too (Windows 7), and this is really annoying !!!!

Andro's icon

How about loading the png file into jit.gl.texture and sending that to jit.gl.videoplane ?

Rob Ramirez's icon
Max Patch
Copy patch and select New From Clipboard in Max.

on windows 64 bit, you can use jit.mgraphics to load images. simple example patch here:

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

if you need to dynamically change the dimensions of your output matrix based on the dimensions of the image file, slightly more complex patch here:

djlbe's icon

Yes there isn't that problem using 32bit version of max, in fact I knew it, that was the reason I was using max6 in 32bit mode but I had forgotten it

Rob Ramirez's icon

hi guys, FWIW png image loading via importmovie message to jit.matrix will be working again in windows 64 for the next update (not 7.0.6).