[PD] Comments on pd as a library to be used in game

[marius schebella]

hi,
I want to help with that project. I would have spend time on research 
and development into that direction also without the apricot game (for 
school), and was looking for a possibility like this. so the combination 
with blender and working on a real project is perfect. who is 
coordinating the efforts?
regarding feasibility, I am not sure how easy the whole thing is. you 
for example will want to do all the sound/driver settings from within 
the game, which means pd has to be able to change this by sending 
commands. as far as I know this is not possible with current core pd.
but all the overall work on sound/patches could be started immediately, 
and network connection to send game parameters is also existing already 
(and can still be changed later).
marius.

Pablo Martin wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Blender foundation together with crystalspace community just started
> making a kickass game http://apricot.blender.org.
> 
> We are thinking about using puredata to handle the music system (and
> maybe also some more cool stuff), but I think it'd be important to be
> able to have puredata as a library to link and control it easier from
> the game (instead of running a separate process and handling all
> communication with osc socket). I think there was some work in progress
> in this direction with desiredata but i cant be so sure... can anybody
> confirm on the status of this or if its feasible at all? My general idea
> on the subject is we should be able to run pd as a game engine plugin
> (instead of our own sound system for example), and handle opening the
> different patches for different stuff, as well of communicating with
> each of them.
> 
> Another thing, i'd like to hear from people who have used pd in games to
> know exactly what you did with it.
> 
> I am one of main devs for the project, and i have great puredata
> experience, so i think it'd be very interesting to work on this, still,
> we are very time pressed so integrating pd should not pose too much
> runtime or distribution basic problems, specially the lib thing
> distresses me (and handling of patches from there). Just so everyone
> knows, we do have osc receiver in the game engine, so we could basically
> plug pd stuff to anywhere from object positions to shader variables to
> do funky stuff, sending osc messages to pd as part of logic also is not
> a problem.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
>  Pablo
> 
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