On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 ben@ekran.org wrote:
Mathieu and Gem-devs: I've been doing a lot of matrix related stuff with Gem lately driven by my PSO object, and its a little awkward. (Like interpolating 24*8*5 vertex positions etc..) With Chris's vertex array stuff is there a possibility of using gridflow for matrix operations to be passed onto Gem for attaching to openGL? I would be very interesting in seeing such a connection. Are either party's interested? I have some example patches to show off what I mean by awkwardness if required!
This has been on my TODO list for a long time, but do not trust my TODO list. The next thing I do is more Mac support, upon special request, and then I work on one video performance project, and then I'd like to find time to work on GridFlow features, and there are about 100 features that compete very well with GEM support.
But by mentioning it, you are raising the chances I'll do it soon. =)
Just a quick note: loading PDP, GF, GEM all at once in PD, is loading 47 shared libraries at once. It's nice that it doesn't crash. I'd expect some shit involving signals. It is more likely to happen once I try doing real things with all three together, but I don't know yet.
For now, what you can do is use [@export_list] to convert GF grids into PD lists. I suppose that "GEM support" would involve making a faster link? How slow is using [@export_list] for this?
Mathieu Bouchard http://artengine.ca/matju