Jeremy Mann

I'm having a lot of trouble figuring out what is causing the particle generator (jit.gen.fireworks) to either generate a black background or somewhere in the chain of it reaching the display window it loses an Alpha channel.

I have been hammering at this problem for a while and am pretty close to giving up, so I thought I would post it here as a last resort. I have attached the Max file to this post.

The audio stuff on the left, not part of the issue. The idea is that the audio drives the particle effect, Switch on the Input Toggles and put the affected audio Amp to 1, turn on the metros, place in your own music or switch the source and sing into your mic if you want to see.

The stuff in the middle, read any old video into that. Its 'behind' the particle generator and I'm using it to see if it works.

The mess of stuff on the right is whats generating the particles, hit Space then Enter to start it. Somewhere in there the problem is being caused, I suspect its "jit.gl.slab.gauss6x party" as deleting it makes both the particle and video willing to share the same layer, but I truly have no idea. Full disclosure, I didnt make any of that, I'm largely pasting tutorials and example pieces together to make a thing.

Bit of a longshot, but hopefully someone can figure it out.

I'm having a lot of trouble figuring out what is causing the particle generator (jit.gen.fireworks) to either generate a black background or somewhere in the chain of it reaching  the display window it loses an Alpha channel.

The audio stuff on the left, not part of the issue. The idea is that the audio drives the particle effect, Switch on the Input Toggles and put the affected audio Amp to 1, turn on the metros, place in your own music or switch the source and sing into your mic if you want to see. 

Bit of a longshot, but hopefully someone can figure it out.


transparencyalpha-with-jit-gen-element

try adding @erase_color 0 0 0 0 to your jit.gl.node @capture 1

Transparency/Alpha with Jit.Gen element.