Save and recall the state of a matrix +index

    Andro
    Sep 21 2013 | 12:41 pm
    Hi everyone,
    I'd like to be able to output a matrix with jit.bfg (greyscale data, 8 planes) into another jit.matrix and then save the state of that jit.matrix as a preset. Have multiple presets and be able to save and export this data. I saw that I can read and write a matrix file individually but I'd rather just do this with an index system so that everything is loaded at once. I checked the forums but just can't seem to find a solution. And and all help would be greatly appreciated.
    • (karrrlo)
      Sep 21 2013 | 12:52 pm
      [jit.submatrix] might be your friend. or fill a multislider with your matrix data and save the multislider state in your preset system... there is a good example Andrew benson's receipes
    • Andro
      Sep 22 2013 | 9:26 am
      jit.submatrix only allows you to sample a portion of a matrix not save it in any form. I think using 8 multisliders for 8 planes of data would use way too much cpu than I'd need. Any other solutions anyone ?
    • (karrrlo)
      Sep 22 2013 | 7:32 pm
      apologies i ment [jit.marixset] and not [jit.submatrix], my bad
      i don't know you can record 8 planes with [jit.qt.record] but with some workaround you could then read your matrices back as frames with a [jit.qt.movie] also... you don't specify the dimensions of your matrices ?
    • Andro
      Sep 24 2013 | 12:21 am
      Sorry for the late reply. I need to keep all 8 planes of data because I'm using them to distort and manipulate open GL models. so plane 1 is the x co-ordinate of a vertex, plane 2 the y co-ordinate (well thats the idea of it) This is why jit.qmovie won't work as I'll lose all the planes.
      For now I've just used a sel object to bang a read message which loads the matrix state. This works, but I'd rather know if theres an index system or something else that I can use. I tried jit.matrixset but this won't work because I ned to load all the different matrices at start up. The dimensions of the matrices don't matter and vary according to each model that I load.
    • Christopher Dobrian
      Sep 24 2013 | 1:00 am
      You wrote: "I tried jit.matrixset but this won’t work because I need to load all the different matrices at start up."
      jit.matrixset has 'write' and 'read' messages that allow you to store and recall its contents in a file, just as you would do with most presets.
    • Andro
      Sep 24 2013 | 1:15 am
      Christopher, that is such an amazing simple patch ! Thank you so much ! Problem solved :)