Hi,
I'm looking for a way to output OSC data, but the only plug-in I've found (http://sourceforge.net/projects/houdini-osc/ [sourceforge.net]) doesn't seem to work, at least with H10.0+. Is there anything on the cards, or would I be best using some intermediate solution, like network/pipe CHOPs?

hi,
Not sure if that's helpful at all, but Touch Designer (http://www.derivative.ca/), [derivative.ca] supports OSC fluently… using both softwares could be costly though, specially that it seems their chops are no longer compatible to each other. I couldn't pipe in data from Touch to Houdini's chop.


skk.

ps I've just spent a whole new year party, mixing video projections in Touch with iphone. lots of fun … specially after you turn on front cam and sent it on a big wall through Touch

Thanks very much.
Where might I be able to find documentation on the Pipe CHOP data format?

dinkleberry
Thanks very much.
Where might I be able to find documentation on the Pipe CHOP data format?

Unexpectedly it's there:
http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini11.0/nodes/chop/pipein [sidefx.com]

also with example source code:
$HH/public/PPD.tar.Z

I've finally got Chip Collier's OSC CHOP Node (http://sourceforge.net/projects/houdini-osc/) [sourceforge.net] to build and work on my system, Houdini 10.0.734 on Vista. Unfortunately, I was after an output CHOP, not an input CHOP as this is, so I won't be doing any more work on it. I'm uploading a built DSO, my modified source files (I just changed two lines), along with a couple of libs used to build, and a dll needed to run (which I put in c:\houdini\bin). See OscPack - http://www.audiomulch.com/~rossb/code/oscpack/ [audiomulch.com]
and Pthreads-Win32 - http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/ [sourceware.org]

There are a couple of things that I noticed:
- Port is hardcoded to 7000, so don't bother changing that parm.
- The node cooks whenever the frame counter increments (I think it would be nice to cook every time a relevant OSC message is received)

I'll do my best to answer any questions about it, but I'm not the author.

SYmek

dinkleberry
Thanks very much.
Where might I be able to find documentation on the Pipe CHOP data format?

Unexpectedly it's there:
http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini11.0/nodes/chop/pipein [sidefx.com]

also with example source code:
$HH/public/PPD.tar.Z

Is the network mode of this CHOP using the same data model?


thanks

kursad

SYmek

dinkleberry
Is the network mode of this CHOP using the same data model?


thanks

Yes. I'm running Windows so I was using that CHOP in network mode only.