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[philter5]

ok guys let´make theese patch cables!!!
if you´re interested just join this project and i am sure we will get a good result.
as a starting point here is my osm with my last try, i used the curve-module from exonerates developer toolkit but if somebody has some other ideas how to start i am always open for it!
BTW: see the realted posts here
hope to see you here soon

phil


EDIT:

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the project is still running and getting better and better BUT:
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phil

[sunsynth]

Hi Phil,

great work dude

Now a little Animation when Source/Target changes and hopefully drag and drop with the plugs

Walter

[aliasant]

Hi Phil,

great work dude

Now a little Animation when Source/Target changes and hopefully drag and drop with the plugs

Walter

Yeah. it need mouse over action so that when the mouse is above a cable that cable will dance a little bit to tell the user that this is the cable he will move if he clicks and drags.... Reason ( I think ) had a cool thing similar to that but it moved the cable away from the mouse so that you could see behind the cable. funky!

[philter5]

okay but this is my next problem: using my osm to display the cables and modify the connections with
multiplexers works great BUT i am lost with the dragging thing. if i make the cables reacting on mouse
over it doesn´t really work because the whole module area is reacting on it and not only the cable.
my next idea was to use the "get pixel" module and a color compare to tell me if i am exactly over a
specific cable. but for this i have to render the cables to a single bitmap and i am not sure that this is a good way.
another idea was to make a drag area for each cable. but i think i have to try it out. any help would be really nice!

[sunsynth]

Hmm,

if someone could find 'Patch_Cord_Example.osm'

in his Archive of Feb 2006 this could be usefull...

http://synthmaker.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=1932

[theun]

Yes, Sunsynth, I remembered that one too when reading the earlier posts last week ... I already searched the forum to find this old topic, and finally found autodafé's osm on my own hard disk ....

So here's the osm:

Patch_Cord_Example.osm

(3.56 KiB) Downloaded 348 times

Cheers

PS. I sent a personal mail to autodafé to explain I was going to re-up his file, here's his answer

no problem,
my old osm didn't seem to work anymore on newer SM versions.
(....)
regards,
Antonio

[philter5]

thank you !

[sunsynth]

Yeah, good work Theun!

I know it did not work in our newer SM's...

But maybe we could steal something...

Walter

P.S: 1st try 2 repair:

[philter5]

Yeah, good work Theun!

I know it did not work in our newer SM's...

good to know, i thought i did something wrong
but i can´t figure out what i can steal from this osm, like rl said this osm is a piece of modern art!
(and i am really not good in modding a modern art osm!). i think i´ll leave the dragging thing out and just control my osm with multiplexers . i am a little playing kid (at least with SM and most results i get is with playing and testing till i got it.. perhaps i´ll find a good way in one of my playing lessons. sorry for this noob de3scription but it´s weekend and i ám a bit drunk,hehe)

[philter5]

ok, done a lot of stuff that makes it looking better and better. here is the latest version. not yet finished,
but a step in the right direction .

[exonerate]

Interesting project

How's this for a patch cable?.....

ExoPatchCable.osm

(13.8 KiB) Downloaded 328 times

I hacked this together quite quickly, but I think it seems rather convincing.

It uses the PALines primitive, which is the simplist way of doing it as the curve is taken care of by the primitive. For a much more complex cable you'd have to do it another way ( if you want the cable to move or react when the mouse is over the cable for example.)

Cheers

Exo

[aliasant]

Interesting project

How's this for a patch cable?.....

ExoPatchCable.osm

I hacked this together quite quickly, but I think it seems rather convincing.

It uses the PALines primitive, which is the simplist way of doing it as the curve is taken care of by the primitive. For a much more complex cable you'd have to do it another way ( if you want the cable to move or react when the mouse is over the cable for example.)

Cheers

Exo

Why is it that I cant see the new curvature when I move the curve amount knob?
I have tried to hook different things into the redraw but I only managed to crash it a couple of times.

If one could manipulate the curvature in real time it should be easy to make a hover over nudge cable thing.

[theun]

This mod was easy to do ...
Is this what you did want to see, Aliasant ?

Cheers, Theun

ExoPatchCable_mod.osm

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[aliasant]

This mod was easy to do ...
Is this what you did want to see, Aliasant ?

Cheers, Theun

ExoPatchCable_mod.osm

LOL !!
I completely missed that. 1 simple connection. Must have been the easiest you have ever done
And yes. That should make things easier. If you change the knob so it goes from -1 to 1 instead you can wiggle the cable in the other direction too. To make something that looks real maybe one should affect the cable under the mouse.
One would have to go into the float array before the Pal I think ?

I dont really have time for this right now but I would love to help out later when I finish ( as if I ever will ) my current project. One thing that could be done pretty easy is to make the cables look nicer Make the main color grey or so and then a second one half the with on top of the first one with a lighter color and alpha at maybe 80. Then a third cable also on top but with a black color and alpha some were around 80 too. Those two cables needs to be offset a bit to make it work. Could look cool. I just wish we could blur our lines a bit too. One could even have a fourth cable under the others acting as the shadow. They would all use the same data so it should use much more resources.

[aliasant]

Hmm. Snother thing that probably should be done is to have the curvature depend on the distance between the connectors. The further away from each other they are the greater curvature.
Im no good at this so I cant figure out how to measure the distance....