MoonTrek Display

Through creating a webBrowser embed into touchdesigner I can display moontrek’s website as a pop-up window inside the visualizer screen. The current pipeline idea I have is to have the users select a line/polyline which gives a .csv of elevation profiles. Then the elevation profile will need to be parsed into usable data for the noise generation.

I also want to add an option to add the actual texture of the moon to the visualizer but that seems a little complicated at the moment and I’m not quite sure how I actually want that to look.

Changelog

• web display
• README edit
• MoonTrek WebBrowser

So apparently setting anchors points for a popMenu is the most complicated thing you can do in the world ignoring thermonuclear fusion. After trying multiple methods like setting the coords for the panel and anchoring to a comp in a container (didn’t work), I’ve settled with using win32 to set the mouse directly (which the menu opens on). Thankfully I now have that set and a few other keyboard shortcuts to control the player.

Changelog

• Menu position + key functions and callbacks
• Ship modifications

I’ve developed my basic flow of components needed to strip out channels from the audioanalysis and tweak to smooth and filter to more useable values. The visualizer right now has some basic reactivity to snares and kicks as well as glows and increases in size with spectral density. Unfortunately it’s going to be many a hours to tweak everything to react as I want it to and to fit multiple kinds of songs so I’ve put off the moon surface noise for now, that will likely come in the next ship as I still need to get hours for #lock-in.

Changelog

• analysis tweaks + base reactivity
• Audio Switching, dialog callbacks, display flow

Kinda forgor to devlog for a bit.
Originally I set up the visualizer with low-frequency oscillators to slowly test my pulsing of the sphere. Through some math we remap the surface points of the sphere onto the 2d plane. Some post-processing added to make it appear more reactive, fine-tuned a lot of values until I felt happy with it but these can ultimately be changed later. An important feature I’ve been working to keep is the ability to later edit how much the affect of lows, highs, and kick etc affect the visualizer to really custom-fit how the user wants it to feel. A lot of Derivative’s callbacks get obfuscated in their chain of extensions that call features at the core level so reading into the containers/comps is really important. Some UI is setup with the scripts to set values in the backend once the dialogs and popmenus are complete. The noise from the heightmap of MoonTrek is going to be the hard part to really figure out and is going to complicate this project just a bit, but this also wouldn’t be unique without sooo

Changelog

• Perform Shortcute
• README part 2
• SVG + Dialog Containers
• README part 1
• Performance + Backdrop
• Perform script
• Modular Visualizer
• Init