Then there was 16 days……

So with 16days left till my final year project presentation, I’m surprisingling confident. 3 option were open to me for building my Wii-learning drum kit:

MaxMSP

WiiFlash

GlovePie

After a lots of trial and error testing I had decided to use glovePie. Its easily programmable, highly distributable and reliable.

I’ve currently programmed my application for the gesture recognition of the drum strokes, I still need more accurate midi sounds, and arrangment advice from an actual drummer. Sucessfully attached the nun-chucks to the feet(toe end).

FINISHED!!!!

might make more sense now

better

some screen shots

Getting there

Well 3ds max offers considerable faster rendering power, and in my opinion gives better results. Heres a render test again…..

Rendering issues

As always nothing is as simple as you think its gonna be. I’m at the point where I’m rendering scenes. Originally I wanted to use poser 7 for my animated people, unfortuatley I’ve realised that it will take about 1 hour to render 1 second of animation, because my video was going to be around 3-5 minutes long, I’d be looking at around 300-500 hours of rendering time! Not possible. However 3ds max 9’s rendering time is considerably better, only downside is I’m gonna loose the ease of animated people, still pose’s then, or none at all!

Heres some test renders……

Narrative submission

Well this is my video for my Digital Narrative assignment.Its a tongue in cheek advert for my pub, with one message, we are open 3pm-1am. 

Final Assignment Handed In

For my final assignment I investigated WiiJing. My submission consisted of using a Wii controller and nun-chuck midi mapped to Ableton Live. OSCulator was used to connect the Wii controller and output as midi.Files available: My write up, saved OSCulator files, saved ableton files. You should be able to load up OSCulator save, then the Ableton Live save. From this point you should be able to control Ableton via your Wii controller and nun-chuck, as the midi mapping has already been done on both peices of software. I hope this helps someone, as this could have saved my days of banging my head against the wall.Ableton Live OSCulator home writeup.pdf Project