[PD] gemhead order

IOhannes m zmoelnig zmoelnig at iem.at
Sat Jul 19 19:00:00 CEST 2003


Martin Dupras wrote:
> IOhannes,
> 
> Maybe the gem help files need to be updated. This is from the
> help/gemhead.pd help patch (second paragraph):
> 
> "gemhead takes an argument to determine when it receives the render
> command. The default value is 50. The lower the value is, the sooner the
> gemhead will receive the rendering command (a value of 1 is the lowest
> possible value.) This values becomes important when you are doing alpha
> blending and for certain objects (such as light). "

you misunderstood something:
you cannot give arguments to [separator] to define a execution order of 
sub-gemchains.

however: [gemhead]s have this very argument. and you can even change it 
at run-time with a [set $1( message (replace $1 with the wanted value).
so the documentation is all right.

mfg.as.rd
IOhannes

> 
> - martin
> 





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