Josh Gledhill

I have bit of a problem which I have been trying solve for a number of days and I can't work out a solution so I am hoping someone with have some info to help me.

I am looking into controlling software enviroment by using physical gestrue input from currently a kinect which is running 'synapse' and the max patch 'kinect to synapse'

which allows me to use body movement to control a patch i have created in Max.After some problems mapping to gesture into max It thought about using a Wii Mote to to control the multiple functions which can be assigned in max. This would allow me to control invididual functions by selecting certain buttons on my wii mote which then the parameters of the functions can be controlled by the input to the kinect I.E Function on the wiimote turns on a reverb, I can then control the dry/wet of the reverb by moving my left hand up and down etc..

Basically how to do I get the wiimote to allow me to assign different functions to it but also allow me to use the same gectures again for a different function on the kinect? Is buddy object what I need? I am just a little confused.

I am looking into controlling software enviroment by using physical gestrue input from currently a kinect which is running 'synapse' and the max patch 'kinect to synapse'
which allows me to use body movement to control a patch i have created in Max.After some problems mapping to gesture into max It thought about using a Wii Mote to  to control the multiple functions which can be assigned in max. This would allow me to control invididual functions by selecting certain buttons on my wii mote which then the parameters of the functions can be controlled by the input to the kinect I.E Function on the wiimote turns on a reverb, I can then control the dry/wet of the reverb by moving my left hand up and down etc.. 

Basically how to do I get the wiimote to allow me to assign different functions to it but also allow me to use the same gectures again for a different function on the kinect? Is buddy object what I need? I am just a little confused. 

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Ok it sounds like you want to use the wiimote to change functions (via buttons?) and then use the positional values from the Kinect adjust the parameters of that fuction, correct?

For example, you push the "B" button on the wiimote, which switches the mode to "RGB Shift" and moving your left hand up and down controls the amount of shift. You then push the "A" button on the wiimote, which switches the mode to "Reverb" and the same left hand now controls the wet/dry mix.

This is doable. You can use aka.wiimote to get the data from the wiimote inside max directly from an external object or use Osculator (which has native wiimote support) running in the background like your synapse app and sending OSC data to max through a udpreceive object and (probably) an osc-route object.

Once you have the data from both sensors in max, its pretty easy to have the wii data compose specific messages or route data for the kinect data. You can use sprintf to dynamically change messages, or a gate object to send values to different messages.

Ok it sounds like you want to use the wiimote to change functions (via buttons?) and then use the  positional values from the Kinect adjust the parameters of that fuction, correct?

For example,  you push the "B" button on the wiimote, which switches the mode to "RGB Shift" and moving your left hand up and down controls the amount of shift.  You then push the "A" button on the wiimote, which switches the mode to "Reverb" and the same left hand now controls the wet/dry mix.

This is doable.  You can use aka.wiimote to get the data from the wiimote inside max directly from an external object or use Osculator (which has native wiimote support) running in the background like your synapse app and sending OSC data to max through a udpreceive object and (probably) an osc-route object. 

Once you have the data from both sensors in max, its pretty easy to have the wii data compose specific messages or route data for the kinect data.  You can use sprintf to dynamically change messages, or a gate object to send values to different messages.


How to get a multiple funcitions working with a WIi Mote.