Hi, I think such a scripting possibility is a must.
Shaders are very - very- nice. They can allow you to modify the vertices (vertex shader) and textures (fragment shader) you send it. Furthermore, you can make it compute stuff, such as even physical simulation, on the GPU. What we need is an extendable way to create those vertices, and to choose the texture we put on it. By etendable, I mean that using a lot of [coll], [list] or so, and then [unpack]ing them is not so scalable. When you have something like 15 parameters on a sprite (a geo with a texture on it), you need something like a scripting language to keep track of the states, variables, changes, and such.
Now, if we call the void gl_lua::render(GemState *state) method of a gl_lua Gem object, and then call a lua function that draws vertices with a texture id (according to the GemState object attributes we pass it, I guess), would the result be drawn in the Gem window ?
I mean using the http://luagl.wikidot.com/ functions. I wonder if calling those : """ gl.Begin("LINES") gl.Color(1, 1, 0) gl.Vertex(0, 0) gl.Vertex(1, 1) gl.End() """" ... would work out-of-the-box. Would it ? If so, that worth it. :)
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2007/9/16, marius schebella marius.schebella@gmail.com:
alexandre, at exactly this minute I was looking at exactly the same stuff, you just posted... a jit.gl.lua for gem (gl) would be cool. or python, but some scripting for gl would be cool. I still did not look into the shader language, maybe I will do this now... marius.
Alexandre Quessy wrote:
Hi! Otherwise, use pix_set, or so. Of course, there could be some kind of QuickDraw-like (tm Apple computer) commands in an object, or an object to which we can send OpenGL-like commands, such as Jitter's http://www.cycling74.com/documentation/jit.gl.sketch ... I might be interested on making one some day. We will see if I get some free time... :)
Actually, I am more interested in a Lua wrapper, from which we could use the OpenGL functions which would be rendered in the same render context than Gem's. Would it be easy? ClaudiusMaximus has started a wrapper for Lua, and I wonder if that would be easy to do. Wesley Smith has done the jit.gl.lua external ( see http://www.cycling74.com/twiki/bin/view/Share/WesleySmith ) which extends really well Jitter. It is not free (neither is Jitter), but it is a proof that adding some script language to a dataflow software makes things way easier when trying to make complex animations !! Calling OpenGL functions in text is nice, you know ! Way faster than using pd messages.
See : http://luagl.wikidot.com/
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