A simple Quartz Composition that displays scrolling texts that you can use with the Reality Augmenter.
See it in action in this video:
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Serato Video Album Art Loader
A Quartz Composer file you can drop in your media crate, and it will attempt to load album art from a shared directory based on the Album name of the current playing track.
The default path for the album artwork is ~/Music/AllAlbumArtwork. You can change it in the file using the AlbumArtworkPath input splitter patch.
You can see it in effect in this video:
Reality Augmenter Release Notes 1.0.4
It’s been a while since the last update, to be honest, I took a bit of a break over Christmas and new year after working non stop for so long! Been getting back on the horse again, new updates and developments to start coming again.
New Features
- Can now add Quartz Compositions as sources as well as processors.
- Saved files now use the extension .rag instead of .binary, files using the old extension will still load.
OpenGL Optimisations
- Better context management means fewer context switches and locks.
- Reduced openGL flushing.
Other
- Reduced use of OSX Cocoa specific code to enable a future iOS release with shared code base.
- Code restructure as part of the above.
- General code clean and removal of outdated code.
Reality Augmenter as Window Display
Reality augmenter, self adhesive frosting, instant window display without precise projector alignment.
Reality Augmenter Minimix
Little indie mini mix with serato Dj and video.
The album art is done by a Qc composition that grabs album art from a folder based on the album name data point, this QC composition is the only item in my Mdeia Crate so auto loads on every track. The reality augmenter combines this via syphon with the interface and projects it onto the decks.
Sorry about the audio, I forgot to hit record for the audio and didn’t have time to rerecord it, i’ll see if I have time over the christmas holidays.
To move the album art to a shared folder, I used Dougs applescript “Save Album Art as folder.jpeg” (http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=savealbumartjpeg). I then I have my own applescript to rename folder.jpeg to the owning folders name (the album name), then used finder to find all jpeg files, and moved them to a single folder. I didn’t base it on the iTunes folder structure as I have lots of compilation albums, and combining artist name and album name doesn’t work as a path when stored under “Various Artists”.
The QC composition then uses the album name data point (kSSV_SeratoDataAlbum) and a string printer to make the path for the image importer patch. The rotation is controlled with the Song position data point (kSSV_SeratoDataSongPosition). A watcher patch on the album names prompts the image importer to update.
Tracklist:
James – Skindiving
Phantogram – Mouthful of Diamonds
Chromatics – Lady
Gorillaz – Stylo (feat. Mos Def & Bobby Womack)
Sebastian – Love In Motion [feat Mayer Hawthorne]
UNKLE – Hold My Hand
Reality Augmenter Setup
How to setup the Reality Augmenter with turntables and mixer in under ten minutes.
Reality Augmenter Release Notes 1.0.3
Changes
- Added snaps to mapping view, corner and edge snapping can be turned on or off with the ‘c’ and ‘e’ keys.
- Space bar deselects current layer in full screen view.
Fixes
- Small bugs fixed pixked up when extending unit testing.
- Outputs view tidied up and updated with more instructions.
Reality Augmenter Release Notes 1.0.2
Fixes
Mostly GUI updates and fixes for this release
- Fixed mapping layers image unit and overlay getting confused if done in certain orders.
- Current image unit no longer available as an overlay in the pop up button.
- Chop area type popover editor table cleaned up.
- Layers inspector view tidied up.
- Fixed typo in help of mapping layers view, add extra paragraph on adding and removing layers.
- Circular warp now properly updates dimensions if image input is changed.
Reality Augmenter Release Notes 1.0.1
Changes
Table cell views no longer render all the time. Although it looked nice, it would play havoc with the render rate. Cell views will update if moved, or if you mouse over the view. The previous functionality can be turned back on in the preferences, but the document must be restarted.
Fixes
- Fixed glitching when using video with a processor.
- Full screen views now exit full screen on document close.
- Fixed various bindings errors in the GUI.
- Fixed some deallocation and observation problems caused during document closing.
- Max texture size increased to 4096×4096.
Reality Augmenter Release Notes 1.0.0
First Release!
It’s been in Beta long enough, time for the first release. Shop is now available to purchase a full copy. Please contribute, I don’t have a job at the moment, and I’m working on this full time with only unemployment benefits to support me!
Other fixes
- Fixed Yosemite crash trying to add Syphon source.
- Fixed Yosemite problem resizing windows causing preview views to glitch.
- Fixed occasional hang on document opening.
- Various small bugs fixed identified in unit testing.