Magic Music Visuals

A GLOBAL/MASTER "Volume"/"Frequency" sensitivity thingy would also be AWESOME! Especially for people without MIDI controllers, it takes a lot of work to adjust a bunch of parameters everytime one wants to play higher or lower volume. Im using MIDI, and so i already have my assig...

there is a build of milkdrop with spout support on the spout forums.

you could spout milkdrop into magic.

to the best of my knowledge whilst the dxv codec binaries are 'free' in price, the source/headers etc needed to implement (hardware accelerated) support in other players isn't available. interestingly though, I just this minute noticed FFMPEG seem to have committed support for vidvox's free and open...

sometimes I don't even know what text to enter *during* the event

FFGL uses C++. It's harder to learn than GLSL, but gives you a lot more functionality. One pretty awesome exception worth noting: The Spout team recently released this really killer template https://github.com/leadedge/ShaderLoader/ Which allows you to drop fragment shaders straight in and compile....

I've noticed since this change some shaders have a 0.0 alpha set. This doesn't effect magic, but you can trip you up if you're syphoning out etc.

example: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/MlsGRS

particularly if you dual boot you might want to double check your date/time after reboot

I can reproduce this - Yosemite & Creative Sound Blaster X-FI Surround 5.1 Pro (stuck at 48khz) Magic unable to open audio output device.

Magic v1.53

I have a one liner module I use (MDK) with the spectrum sometimes which just switches to wireframe. I'll post the dlls/source for it next time I'm on the machine that has it.

not what you asked for, but for this kind of stuff I can't recommend openframeworks enough. It's surprisingly easy to get into

http://openframeworks.cc/

In a future version of Magic, all GLSL shaders will show up as modules like the LumaKey, so you won't have to deal with the vague X and Y params in the GLSLShader module.

interesting, given any thoughts to implementation? ISF?

or am i thinking in the wrong direction at all, and it's all fake and just imitates looking like actual objects? That's exactly right. The Vertex shader is a quad at the resolution and everything else (fragment shader) is done per pixel with math wizardry and by sampling textures. If you would like...

I found the same thing with depth testing the shader output. I came to the same conclusion as you :) one way that might be easier than editing all the source videos is playing it with something else, applying the mask to the composition, then bringing it into magic with spout/syphon and using the sa...

hrm, tricky one. Tried experimenting w/ alpha with ramp+threshold on the video?

edit: you can't use alpha on a video it seems, brightness perhaps then?

Terry Payman wrote: I always have Compendium Development's free forceWindowVisible utility pinned to my taskbar.

awesome tip!

that's a neat idea!

I started using the invert chains before the shader module had inputs and never really thought about changing it up.

while you cant do proper animated textures atm, one trick I use sometimes for a similar effect is chaining up inverts like so:

http://i.imgur.com/ujfr31l.png

anything that is class compliant midi should give you no problems.

Just remember that things like infinite dials which just send 0 or 127 are going to be fairly useless for magic without any kind of advanced mapping features. Also no midi out so things like lights etc might not work.

I had thought about making a little tool to: run the shader for x frames and benchmark it, average the frames and give a performance rating. screenshots tagging/categorisation etc etc so I could select stuff like 'LED friendly, high performance, tunnels'. I'll get around to it one day if Eric doesn'...

isse could be an option?

http://isse.sourceforge.net/