Hey guys, this is my first post so hope someone can help. I am using processing for the code I will need to talk to an arduino board. My question is really more about the processing side though. I have made 3D animations using 3D studio max and want to use processing if I can, to help display the rendered animations (dog) in some form. Thing is i,m new to processing so could someone tell me if it is possible to do this?????

I was told to use openGL but again i,m new to openGL so i would love anybodys advice to display animations.

ok well i think I read you can use openGL with 3d animations, so if i have the code in processing to read in the signals from the arduino board and then have the processing code talk to openGL (which has code for the animations), do you think that will solve this dilemma? = )

You mentioned that you want to display "the rendered animations." Does that mean you already rendered them? If so, you can import quicktime format movies into processing. You could then manipulate the individual video frames within processing. Alternatively, you could render the animation as a sequence of stills and mess with those as PImage objects.

Also, if you are only doing a camera animation, you could do that inside of processing. Deforming the geometry would be tough.

hi,
processing has a integrate movie class, that you can use..
just load your movies in and play/stop it based on whatever conditions you need..



import processing.video.*;

Movie mov;
Movie mov2;


[in setup]
mov = new Movie( this, "filename" );
mov2 = new Movie( this, "filename2" );
mov.loop(); // set this movie to loop infinitely


[in your mainloop]

if(analog output (from arduino board) is <= predetermined figure 1)
{  
   mov.read(); // read frames
   image( mov, 0, 0 );  // show movie frames
}
else if(analog input from arduino board is <= predetermined figure 2)
{  
   mov2.read();
   image( mov2, 0, 0 );
}

use mov.pause() or mov.stop() to pause and/or stop..

you could use some set of flags to activate calls..
just play with it, see what you can come up with.

i cant help you on the arduino control.. never tried any

Hello Guys!
I am kinda interesting in the "same" import, thou I would like to import 3D objects from 3d studio max,Maya, etc. rather than animation.

So, I am interested in exporting a complex 3D object (OpenGl text format?) file and import its "coordinates" to processing, where I would like to manipulate this object further?

Any help would be appreciated !