Project Speaking
In this class I had a lot of trouble in a couple of different ways, first figuring out what I was going to do then how to do it, I felt like I wanted to try something completely new for my self so I began looking through PD. Not knowing much about PD a lot of my ideas of how to go about creating a story that could be changed based upon key input just weren't in the correct form for pure data. I started thinking about things in too much of a data laser disk kind of format trying to refer to frames for all of the seeking functions no knowing at the time that I didn't even have a way to add audio to my output.
Learning what kind of commands PD will use was the start, then actually finding the names for those was an even harder task. In the end I discovered that i had to handle audio and video as two separate items and construct a patch that would having them running in parallel. Once I was able to figure out the method that I would need to use I could then start searching through the very large community attached with PD to find the objects by name that I only knew by functions. When I got to a point where I was finding functions that were almost what I needed but just a few clicks off from what would really work for my project Pat would always have an object that was the perfect fit. So once I had all of the pieces that I needed i then focused on trying to clean my project up a little bit and make it usable in the future and not a cumbersome item to try and work with.
I worked on making my PD patch in a modular fashion via sub-patches that were self contained choices that just had to be linked together in the the configuration of your story. I also made a sort of quick version that is laid out in a rows and columns out to 10 choices. If you name your video files in the configuration of the first number as the choice number the second number as the sub patch number in that row (counting from left to right) and the last number defining within that sub patch whether it was the first, second, or third choice. so 373 is choice 3 sub patch seven which would be coming off of an aggressive choice in choice 2 and an independent choice in choice 1 and in my movie it would be the independent choice video on that tree. I my entire goal was to make it something that I could use even after this class.
Something that will also allow me to use this more is a quick way to make a lot of different videos in the same sort of setting with different feels. The people you will see in the short demonstration in class are from a program that advertises its self as text-to-movie from www.xtranormal.com they really helped in getting something done in such a short amount of time. I will try to kind of walk through what my patch does during my presentation and it will hopefully make sense. Thank you for all of your help Pat.
Learning what kind of commands PD will use was the start, then actually finding the names for those was an even harder task. In the end I discovered that i had to handle audio and video as two separate items and construct a patch that would having them running in parallel. Once I was able to figure out the method that I would need to use I could then start searching through the very large community attached with PD to find the objects by name that I only knew by functions. When I got to a point where I was finding functions that were almost what I needed but just a few clicks off from what would really work for my project Pat would always have an object that was the perfect fit. So once I had all of the pieces that I needed i then focused on trying to clean my project up a little bit and make it usable in the future and not a cumbersome item to try and work with.
I worked on making my PD patch in a modular fashion via sub-patches that were self contained choices that just had to be linked together in the the configuration of your story. I also made a sort of quick version that is laid out in a rows and columns out to 10 choices. If you name your video files in the configuration of the first number as the choice number the second number as the sub patch number in that row (counting from left to right) and the last number defining within that sub patch whether it was the first, second, or third choice. so 373 is choice 3 sub patch seven which would be coming off of an aggressive choice in choice 2 and an independent choice in choice 1 and in my movie it would be the independent choice video on that tree. I my entire goal was to make it something that I could use even after this class.
Something that will also allow me to use this more is a quick way to make a lot of different videos in the same sort of setting with different feels. The people you will see in the short demonstration in class are from a program that advertises its self as text-to-movie from www.xtranormal.com they really helped in getting something done in such a short amount of time. I will try to kind of walk through what my patch does during my presentation and it will hopefully make sense. Thank you for all of your help Pat.
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