XYZ position data in Multislider to jit.gl.path…is it possible and how?

rossdr1082's icon

Hello all,

I am new to programming with Max (learned PD in school) and VERY NEW to Jitter. Heres my problem:

I have a sphere that I control with accelerometers that output their xyz position data to flonums that then feed 3 multi sliders, one for each X, Y, Z, (that essentially stores the data of the sphere's movement). I want to then feed the data from those multi sliders into jit.gl.path to then have the sphere retrace its movement.

Am I correct in thinking the jit.gl.path object is the right one to use?

How should I go about connecting the multi sliders to the jit.gl.path object?

Thanks in advance for any and all help!!!!

Cheers,

Dan

Rob Ramirez's icon

if you want the path to control the position of a 3d object, then you should use jit.anim.path. you can visualize a jit.anim.path with a jit.gl.path by setting the anim.path @drawpath attribute to a named gl.path object. this is demonstrated in the help file.

to set the values of the path, use the append, insert or edit messages to anim.path.

rossdr1082's icon

Thanks Rob!

I will check it out tonight and report back my findings.

Thank you very much for taking the time to respond and share some guidance.

Much appreciated.

Cheers!