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Hello everyone, Three quick noob questions:

Why is the attached code producing 5 spheres instead of 4? (N must be >1 for the issue to present itself.)

Why don't the jit.pwindow colors match the sphere colors?

Is there a way to consolidate the the trigger objects? the " t b l" is picky about its sequence.

Why is the attached code producing 5 spheres instead of 4? (N must be >1 for the issue to present itself.)
Why don't the jit.pwindow colors match the sphere colors?
Is there a way to consolidate the the trigger objects? the " t b l" is picky about its sequence.


why-is-a-4-plane-n-array-matrix-creating-n1-gridshapes

the extra shape is because @automatic is enabled on your gridshape, disable that and you will only get the 4 shapes triggered by the bang (you should also probably move the bang triggered by the position message to the left of other messages so that it triggers a draw after setting all attributes)

the color mismatch is due to the difference in plane ordering between jitter matrices (ARGB) and OpenGL color values (RGBA). either put a jit.matrix @planemap 1 2 3 0 prior to the jit.map, or simply a zl.rot 3 prior to prepend color.

Ahh Many thanks Rob, it is working beautifully now.

Oddly the spheres always touch one plane, from the code i would think that they would be randomly distributed across all planes. Any tips how to get the distribution less tangential? (though it is cool)

Any suggestions on how to make this less intensive on the CPU as well?

Ahh Many thanks Rob,  it is working beautifully now. 

Oddly the spheres always touch one plane, from the code i would think that they would be randomly distributed across all planes. Any tips how to get the distribution less tangential?  (though it is cool)

Any suggestions on how to make this less intensive on the CPU as well?


A quick screen grab to show people what i'm talking about.

Why is a 4 plane N array matrix creating N+1 gridshapes?