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Excited! Nearly Finished fmp Last hurdle..

 

All that is left to do is include the real live data coming in.. which I will need to do by collecting data from each station in the tidal and current data section of the noaa site.

And then I will need to merge this with my final patch file, which will involve adding the sound and background, perhaps a glow to the sphere and make the timeline buttons closer to each other 🙂 exciting!

Figuring out start to end of frames to each button

Love my dual monitors and parent’s laptop ^^

Year Navigation Problem..

With some help I have managed to get the cursor to scroll right & left of the timeline..

However I have worked out that there is 88 year buttons and 2554 animation png frames. Distributing the animation frames evenly to each year works out at 29 frames per year which makes that around 1 second long to each year (button).

As this is not appealing to the user, I have decided to group the years into 6 groups. 15 years to each group. That leaves around 425 frames (around 15 seconds) to each group 🙂

This gives the user the option to click from 6 buttons.

Background Audio Problem

I’ve completed the soundtrack and thanks to an example looping v4 file I’ve found, I have managed to get the soundtrack playing in my project 🙂 YAY

I have listened to the soundtrack to see if it loops with no problems and I have encountered the problem of it not looping properly!

Problem :(

After lots of struggling I’ve finally created the button navigation bar, I fixed my problem of struggling to apply several textures, but I’ve finally done it!

So as I created it on a separate canvas, I copied and pasted the code into the final fmp canvas.

Now the buttons aren’t showing! not at all…

Will figure this out..

Scientific Visualization Studio

http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/search.cgi?mission=51

 

This site is amazing! data visuals – nasa – using software geos 5 (which the public haven’t got access to).

 

I will be analysing these videos to help me with my animation of the earth and to be able to understand the balance of waves and temperature etc etc.

Soundtrack!

Halo’s theme soundtrack is truly beautiful and would be perfect for the background soundtrack to my project. Unfortunately I cannot take the soundtrack as it would be copyright infringement, so with this in mind, I will be recreating and sampling it so that I can use it in my project.

Here is my inspiration:

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I will be using Fruity Loops to create the soundtrack.

[ http://www.image-line.com/flstudio/ ]

Here are some Screenshots of the sound creation process:

I recorded the piano sound using this instrument:

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Me and my collaboration partner have created the first draft. I have asked two people to give their opinion on it so that we can make improvements!

Person One:

I like the harmony in the background

Like the aahhh oiiiihh

Like a space movie

Its sick

Oh sh*t it’s getting intense

And now it’s calming down again

And finished

it’ll be on loop in my project

Its sound really good to me

Hmm

Maybe

A little longer to loop it

Or sort of transition back in

oh longer pause at end?

Well its hard to tell

If u do 1 loop

And see how it sounds like when it finishes

And start again

So you want that bit to sound nice

hmmm, so a easier transition back in?

or should i give it a 5 second delay

Ye but its not a loop yet so j can’t tell how it will sound

Do a loop first

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Person Two:

 

keep it as it is

sounds good anyway

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My collab partner has had to take a business trip to Leicester so I’ve had to Skype him. Here is part of the convo:

31st March 2015

[18:22:52] Kavi Amalakumar: i#m just tweaking it send in 5 mins

[18:23:13] Kavi Amalakumar: i can master it properly and make it sound proper high def if you like it, but can’t today.

gonna send it in a sec
[18:34:19] Kavi Amalakumar: it has a drop near the end
[18:34:25] Kavi Amalakumar: not sure if you want it or not, or want to keep it simple

[18:51:58] CamyKumar: sounds good the begining bit, low sound of the spaceship
[18:52:04] Kavi Amalakumar: ya
[18:52:09] Kavi Amalakumar: made it sound like it;s in space
[18:52:20] Kavi Amalakumar: you want me to lower that volume?
[18:52:27] CamyKumar: near the end of it
[18:52:53] CamyKumar: or let me ask friend on their opinion
[18:52:59] Kavi Amalakumar: ok
[19:14:24] CamyKumar: my friend really likes it!
[19:14:30 |CamyKumar: they said the end needs to transition better
[19:14:33] CamyKumar: as it’ll beoon loop
[19:15:06] CamyKumar: we can either have a 10 second delay, or keep it how it is but transitioned better

[19:25:12] Kavi Amalakumar: changed ending of song, same
[19:25:18] Kavi Amalakumar: but has a flute thing
[19:25:22] Kavi Amalakumar: then repeats whole song quickly
[19:25:27] Kavi Amalakumar: so less gap

[19:42:34] CamyKumar: i think at the end
[19:42:38] CamyKumar: fade it
[19:42:48] CamyKumar: because it’s jolty when it loops
[19:43:30] CamyKumar: but middle sounds good!

Inserting image/video into v4 problem

I was able to import images into v4, however I had the problem of attaching a ‘scene’ to each year.

Originally I was going to attach one frame to each button(year), but this is not what I want. I want a scene to each button(year) which consists of 240 frames or so.

So I will be looking into how to insert a video footage to each button(year).

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I have found a page on the 4v forum that tells me briefly how to insert video footage into v4.

http://vvvv.org/documentation/video-input

http://vvvv.org/documentation/video