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Tim Horne

So, I am finding that when I had a certain amount of lights within a scene that when I add too many lights it switches all of them off until I switch the last one off. So it appears that jit.world has a limitation placed upon it for how many lights are allowed to be switched on at any one time.

Has anyone come across this problem when they have a wanted to use many lights and found a way to resolve this, please?

I want to have loads of lights flashing and making g cool patterns so it’s pretty important I find this solution to this one!

Change limit for the amount of jit.gl.light’s within a scene

change-limit-for-the-amount-of-jitgllights-within-a-scene

mr.l

it has been a very long time that I used Max. (Jitter). Just downloaded the new version on a Win10 PC. I want to get a UHD video input, using a Blackmagic Decklink 8k Pro Card. 

Capture Settings should be 3840x2160 25p. Works fine on the Decklink MediaCapture Software.

Trying to capture in Max with Jit.grab -> Blackmagic (using the help patcher) Max crashes immediatly.

Why is that, is there something new I am not seeing?

Hello,

it has been a very long time that I used Max. (Jitter). Just downloaded the new version on a Win10 PC. I want to get a UHD video...

max-crash-trying-4k-blackmagic-capture

Max Crash trying 4k Blackmagic Capture

Deliverer

Max 9 advertised this new functionality in jitter:

"Switch Jitter into post-production and animation mode with new

Sounds good! but I found absolutely no information about this topic. Documentation remains quite scarce. But I'm keen to know more about offline rendering capabilities. I wonder if anyone managed to use this new functionality? is able to explain more about it?

Max 9 advertised this new functionality in jitter:

"Switch Jitter into post-production and animation mode with new"fixed_delta" attribute...

fixed-delta-attribute-for-jitworld

fixed-delta attribute for jit.world

Haotian Yu

Maybe there's something obvious I'm missing here, but I couldn't find anything about this on the forums yet: jit.gl.meshwarp works well with basically any video source (usually even with direct matrix input) but won't display a specific source video I'm sending (which is a standard 4 plane jit.matrix - generated by some basic color controls). 

1) The source video displays fine when I connect it directly to a jit.pworld, also after I put it through a jit.gl.texture - so it's probably not a texture conversion issue 

2) The jit.gl.meshwarp connected to the source video is making a layer as expected, but it's transparent / showing nothing 

3) Basically anything else works - I included a fairly random jit.expr here which displays fine when connected to the same jit.gl.meshwarp 

(Sorry for the badly organized patch, this is pulled out of a bigger patch) 

jitglmeshwarp-doesnt-show-video

jit.gl.meshwarp doesn't show video? 

Martin Daigle

I am building a shape for a PONG game. I want my paddles to have a curve to it so that the ball is thrown at varying angles depending on the collision with the ball.

I have been able to modify the gridshape; however, Modifying the shape of the Phys body remains an issue. am I barking up the wrong tree?

I am building a shape for a PONG game. I want my paddles to have a curve to it so that the ball is thrown at varying angles depending on...

compound-shape-for-jitphysbody

Compound shape for Jit.Phys.body

This is a bit of a niche question, but does anybody happen to know what text encoding system jit.gl.text uses to read from matrices for numbers outside the ascii printable character range? Everything from 33 to 126 outputs the correct corresponding ascii character, but I can't find any information about the higher numbers. 229 outputs a Chinese character; 239 outputs a Korean character; neither outputs are particularly common characters - so far the output seems completely random. Just to check these weren't somehow unicode, I also sent in matrix information encoded in three layers, but found that only changing the first layer char input actually modified the output. I know jit.gl.text can display any character (including non-alphabet characters) directly from a text message object; however, I specifically in this case need it to read from a matrix. 

Asian characters do also give, according to atoi, five-number unicode codes (for example, 日 outputs 26085). I tried changing the matrix data type but jit.gl.text only accepts char, so this five-number string can't be inputted anyways. I don't know of any standard which encodes Asian characters as char (literally impossible given the 1-byte limit), so I'm not sure what else can be done beyond the aforementioned (failed) strategy of sending multiple layers. A bit stuck on this one. 

jit.gl.text - non-alphabet (Asian) characters from matrix char data? 

jitgltext-non-alphabet-asian-characters-from-matrix-char-data

mmeza

I wish I could know which Jitter object could be useful to track the activity of the computer screen, or if any of you has any method to acquire data from the activity on the screen (like drawing for example). I mean any activity, in and out of the Max context. For example, if I use any drawing software, and that I want to acquire the speed, or the duration of the stoke, the x, y, coordinates... Any clue, any help  will bee very appreciated

Dear all, 

I wish I could know which Jitter object could be useful to track the activity of the computer screen, or if any of you has any...

tracking-the-activity-on-the-screen-pixel-by-pixel

tracking the activity on the screen pixel by pixel

Matteo Marson

This is a list of the built-in uniforms available in Jitter shaders in Max 9

type="mat4" state="MODELVIEW_PROJECTION_MATRIX" 

type="mat4" state="PREV_MODELVIEW_PROJECTION_MATRIX"

== the previous frames modelview-projection matrix

type="mat4" state="VIEW_PROJECTION_MATRIX == 

type="mat4" state="CAM_PROJECTION_MATRIX"

 == (gl3 only) Provides the current rendering camera projection matrix; in most cases is equivalent to PROJECTION_MATRIX except in cases where a full-screen quad is rendering, e.g. in a jit.gl.slab/pix (or jit.gl.pass)

== Transforms normalized texture coordinates into rect coordinates

== the spotlight cutoff in degrees (=spotlight angle)

== exponent implied in the reflected light calculation

== gives the values from the @mat_X attributes of the 3Dobj to which the shader is attached.

== (where "n" is an integer number) Nth custom vertex attribute

== time elapsed since the shader has been compiled

== time elapsed since the rendering context has been activated

== time elapsed between successive frames

== view-space normals (rgb) + normalized depth (a)

== The currently active environment map, accessible as cubemap

== 4 layers of depth values (first front-face, first back-face, second front-face, second back-face). Depth is represented by the z coordinate of the view-space fragment's position (negative)

 == the roughness (r) and metalness (g) values. Works only when jit.gl.pbr is used for shading

once in a while, looking inside jitter shaders, I discover some new GL3 built-in uniforms never saw before. Sometimes, they provide the answer to problems I didn't know how to address before. I looked inside the jitter documetation, but I didn't find an exhaustive list of all the avaiables built-in uniforms. I know many of them can be found in the GLSL  documentation out there, but i'd love to have a comprehensive list of what Max and GLSL can offer to let the users build their own shaders. Here there are the uniforms i met so far and what i understood about them:

MATRICES:
type="mat4" state="MODELVIEW_PROJECTION_MATRIX" == P * V * M
type="mat4" state="PREV_MODELVIEW_PROJECTION_MATRIX" == the previous frames modelview-projection matrix
type="mat4" state="VIEW_PROJECTION_MATRIX == P * V
type="mat4" state="MODELVIEW_MATRIX" == V * M
type="mat4" state="VIEW_MATRIX" == V
type="mat4" state="WORLD_MATRIX" == transforms into world coordinates
type="mat4" state="PROJECTION_MATRIX" == P
type="mat4" state="CAM_PROJECTION_MATRIX" == (gl3 only) Provides the current rendering cameras projection matrix; in most cases is equivalent to PROJECTION_MATRIX except in cases where a full-screen quad is rendering, e.g. in a jit.gl.slab/pix (or jit.gl.pass)
type="mat3" state="NORMAL_MATRIX" == it orients the normals in eye space
type="mat4" state="TEXTURE0_MATRIX" == Transforms normalized texture coordinates into rect coordinates

CAMERA:
type="float" state="FAR_CLIP" == Camera far clipping distance
type="float" state="NEAR_CLIP" == Camera near clipping distance
type="vec3" state="FAR_CORNER" == far corner of the view frustum
type="vec3" state="CAMERA_POSITION" == camera position in world space
type="vec3" state="CAMERA_DIRECTION" == camera direction in world space
type="vec2" state="VIEWPORT" ==  the pixel size of rendering window
type="vec2" state="INVERSE_VIEWPORT" == the inverse of the viewport dims

LIGHT:
type="mat4" state="LIGHT_VIEWPROJ_MATRIX0-7" == scene seen from the light position???
type="float" state="LIGHT_RANGE0-7 " == distance reached by the light
type="vec3" state="LIGHT0-7_POSITION" == position on the light
type="vec3" state="LIGHT0-7_DIRECTION" == direction of the light
type="vec4" state="LIGHT0-7_AMBIENT" == ambient light color
type="vec4" state="LIGHT0-7_DIFFUSE" == diffuse light color
type="vec4" state="LIGHT0-7_SPECULAR" == specular reflection color
type="float" state="LIGHT0-7_CUTOFF" ==  the spotlight cutoff in degrees (=spotlight angle)
type="float" state="LIGHT0-7_EXPONENT" == exponent implied in the reflected light calculation

MATERIAL:
type="vec4" state="DIFFUSE" == material diffuse color
type="vec4" state="AMBIENT" == material ambient color
type="vec4" state="SPECULAR" == material specular color
type="vec4" state="EMISSION" == mterial emission color
state="FRONT_MATERIAL" == gives the values from the @mat_X attributes of the 3Dobj to which the shader is attached.

VERTEX:
type="vec3" state="POSITION" == XYZ Position
type="vec4" state="COLOR" == RGBA Color
type="vec3" state="NORMAL" == Normal vectors
type="vec3" state="TANGENT" == Tangent vectors
type="vec3" state="BITANGENT" == Bitangent vectors
type="vec3" state="VERTEX_ATTR" == Custom vertex attribute
type="vec3" state="VERTEX_ATTRn" == (where "n" is an integer number) Nth custom vertex attribute
type="float" state="EDGEFLAG" == unused, ignore

TEXTURES:
type="vec2" state="TEXDIM0" == XY Dimension of texture 0 type="vec2" state="TEXCOORD" == XY texture coordinates

These are the built-in uniforms i know. I ignore the meaning of some entries in this list and I guess I'm still missing some of them. Could you please integrate the list with the uniforms you know? I will edit this first post adding the entries you provide, so to keep everything compact.

It would be very usefull if an analogue list were done with built-it variables.

Hope this could be usefull to you as much as it is to me. 
Thank you very much!

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