Magic Music Visuals

IMG_ macro names work fine everywhere they are actually used, but writing one in a comment stops the shader compiling. If I put IMG_NORM_PIXEL or IMG_SIZE in a comment as a bare word, with no argument list after it, the shader fails to compile, and the errors point at unrelated lines of correct code...

Here's my harness that tests IMG_SIZE of a buffer. In test #3 (the buffer test) it fails in Magic with "0(53) : error C1503: undefined variable "_bufTest_imgRect" but runs in the ISF editor (shows colour). On many cases I can replace IMG_SIZE with RENDERSIZE but not all. img-size-buff...

IMG_SIZE() works fine on declared image inputs but fails on multi-pass buffers. Many ISF shaders that call IMG_SIZE all load — but any shader that asks for the size of a pass target fails to compile with: error C1008: undefined variable "_BufferA_imgRect" I would expect a pass target to ge...

Excellent - initial testing is positive.

What is the logic in which ISF shaders respect iteration# ? Fractal (a built-in ISF) doesn't, Transparency (a built-in ISF) does, all Blurs (extended ISFs) do, many additional ISF do, many don't. Same for Iteration Frequencies. Other internals work and offsets placed modifying an iteration# still ch...

The extended version of the VU shader is shared on the ISF editor website accessible from the link just added by the devs. You can download the .fs from there. Note that, for some reason, the online editor didn't like 'audio' as an input type so I changed it to 'image' to get it on there. While this...

I don't really use MIDI preferring OSC however, I can think of a couple of workflows that you could use. They're not auto-mapping of parameters - Magic doesn't do that (yet), more a library of pre-configured nodes. The first is to have a sort of library project that contains pre-midi-configured node...

Thank you for sharing.

powertrace wrote: I am out of AI points to continue on it.

Yes, I saw in the comments you'd used a whole lotta points just adjusting angles.

I added some extensions...

https://editor.isf.video/shaders/6a7dbff4734c1a00192e9f00

Give you a lot more flexibility.

Maybe include "SingleHighlyDetailed25"

Hi Ciro, It would ultimately be up to the contract you have with a designer. To facilitate this, Magic has passwords for opening projects and for editing projects. A designer could give you the 'open project' password so you could run scenes but not edit them. This would protect your exclusive right...

This is a good example to work from. You're describing a POV - better to specify a shader itself. I would suggest thinking about the resultant 2d output more than an implied 3d environment, though I understand why you'd want to specify feels. You have redundancy and ambiguity in your prompt (you say...

In my 500 scene test project it takes about 6 seconds to enable LASIGM and, based on memory status, takes about 6 seconds for new project. Disabling LASIGM took about 1 second, based on watching the memory status display. LASIGM with with project uses around 6GB or memory.

Sorry about that, I've had that VIDVOX Displace ISF for so long, I assumed everyone would have it. Here's a link:
https://editor.isf.video/shaders/5e7a80 ... 18206ded2e

For a possibly more performant and certainly more flexible Rutt-Etra like effect, you can do most of it in Magic with just a Displace.


To test out other shaders: https://editor.isf.video/

This is my understanding of beats. You can start with.. 1. Filtered audio - filter to a ( very ) specific frequency that reliably corresponds to the beat -- this mostly what I do. 2. Audio analysis - I did some experiments a long time ago and it seems Terry has made some inroads with OSC into Magic....

A stereo source will always available as two channels in Magic. A 5.1 source would be available as 6 channels. It has always been this way. For audio files and stereo sources you will need two rows in Input Sources - if you only have one slot, just add another for the second channel. Screenshot 2026...

Are you Windows or Mac? Loaded audio or sound device? Hardware or virtual cable? If a stereo input comes into magic, it comes in as left and right, it's never mixed it to a single channel.

When a global parameter name contains a substring that matches an ExprTk reserved word (or vice versa), renaming that global corrupts any Expression modifier that references it. The rename operation appears to perform a naive string substitution rather than matching whole tokens, causing reserved wo...

I would be comfortable will all your suggestions, Terry, but I don't have to code it!

In 2015 Eric wrote:Zooming out will have to wait for Magic 2.0 though, as it will require a major UI redesign.(Post)

That didn't happen in 2.0 or 2.5 but, as you know, I forever live in hope.

Ah, yes. I did misunderstand - good that you clarified. So I could replace any drop-down or long parameter with an internal that sets the source count from the number of inputs. That would work where all the inputs were the same.