On Nov 30, 2005, at 11:12 PM, patrick wrote:

hi d5,

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at present time are there any ports of this

i don't think so, i made it work for linux but i had to contact the author and he told me that the project is not maintained anymore. the new project is called... ah! can't remember, sorry.

pat

Well, thinking in a theoretical context for a moment; how hard would it be to port this idea to other game engines such as Quake 1 or even to be using only GEM ?

In your experience how was the interaction of the 3d modeling engine used for parameters of modulation ? I'm trying to think about this idea in abstraction to hopefully implement in other mediums ! I am very familiar with Quake 1/2 modding/level design but not very with Quake 3 (which seems to be how the original project was implemented) were they world_entities that would send data to a synthesizer ? Surely this is an easy task using QuakeWorld and OSC !?

Your response has already been very helpful. I will post it if I find the current project ...

./d5

On Dec 2, 2005, at 8:07 PM, Malte Steiner wrote:

It should be possible to interface Blender with pd, there are some people doing this but I don't know exactly how. Blender runs on several platforms inclusive your beloved and behated ones, is free oss and has a builtin 3D engine + uses Python as scripting language. Maybe over OSC.

http://www.blender3d.org

I used Blender quite a lot actually.

My question is, if we are implementing synchronous control data between Blender and Pd

how do we ensure portability when the Blender Scene is exported to a movie format ? (.MOV .AVI etc etc)

wouldn't it make more sense to design the scene using GEM ?

What libraries that presently interface with GEM could facilitate the subject of this email ?

./d5