[PD] [GEM] map text onto Geo

[B. Bogart]

Hi Derek,

#1. in the future we should be able to render a "text3d" onto an
offscreen buffer (like an invisible gem-window) that creates a texture
(pixels). Then you would be able to texture the text onto an object
rendered into the gem-window on a second pass. James tittle is working
on this stuff and its in the gem CVS (under a different tag Jamie?)

For a stop-gap you can probably render text (as pixels) in pdp/pidip
controlling it live, and texturing that in Gem...

#2. [entry] should be in the pd-extended packages, it sure used to be...
Looks like it is certainly not in 0.39-test5 (autobuild) but gem and
flext externals are also missing. I'm downloading the stable pd-extended
to see if it is in there. Sure enough [entry] is in the "stable"
pd-extended installer. you can always copy the pd_darwin/linux out of
that folder into your (newer?) installer.

.b.



derek holzer wrote:
> This is probably a bonehead GEM question:
> 
> How do you map [text2d] or [text3d] onto a Geo. [pix_texture] doesn't do
> the job.
> 
> Also:
> 
> Is there anything in HC's PD-Extended installer which supports entering
> text with spaces? [symbol] doesn't do the job here either.
> 
> The end goal:
> 
> A bouncing sphere with user-entered text wrapped around it. I did check
> the archives and only found some stuff from Toxy [didn't create
> properly], GriPD (not in HC's installer), or BBogart's [enter] (also not
> in installer as far as I can tell). It looks like the one from miXed got
> close:
> 
>> beware! this is widget 0.1, 19th alpha build...
>> warning (Widget): no file 'setup.wid'... using built-in defaults
>> error (miXed): bad arguments for a widget
>>                expecting "widget <type> <name> [properties]"
>>  widget text
>> ... couldn't create
> 
> 
> But I guess I'm not creating it right.
> 
> Suggestions appreciated!
> 
> d.
>