The coordinate system in Animata is in pixels. When you launch Animata it will give you a window of 640×480 pixels with 0,0 in the top left corner. The thing to note is that moving or scaling the layers will change the coordinates of that layer accordingly. I usually set my Animata workspace roughly to 1024×768.

I don’t know how the udp send in vvvv works so I can’t really help with that, but if it works by just leaving it on, leave it like that. There is no real reason to bang it if vvvv sends the message without it.

Sorry for all the posts, it took me a while to find the mailing list. I’ve started reading through the archive, any pointers to where to go next? I want to try and rig a simple face or something and map some data in vvvv (where screen size is -1 to 1) to something animata can use.

Not clear on animata’s coordinate system. oh, and I have a UDP send on/off switch. I’ve tried leaving it on, and making it bang on each time my sytem clock ticks. Not sure how it should be set.

thanks for putting all this out here
John

It’s working because the ‘Lm’ property of my bone in animata is changing with my vvvv signal, and stops when I pause vvvv.

Can’t get my actual .png limb to actually move on screen though… Still just fiddling and trying to figure out animata as I go along…

I’ve installed Animata today and I’m trying to control it with vvvv.

I’ve studied this tutorial and everything else I can find on these pages.
I’ve also been reading some posts on the vvvv forums about how this works:

http://vvvv.org/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?comments_parentId=18386&forumId=7&highlight=osc

Is there anywhere I can get help with how to encode my OSC messages in vvvv? I can send OSC between two vvvv patches ok, but I think I am missing something when it comes encoding the OSC message in the right way for Animata to understand. For now I’m just trying to send a single ‘anibone’ message.

I think my port is set up ok on7110, I’m using floats 0 – 1, have named my OSC encoder address ‘anibone bone1′. Attempted to convert my value to a string. But i’m a bit out of my depth.

Also in vvvv my UDP remote host is left on it’s default which is ‘local host’. I this ok?

John

I have no idea. That’s just a link I got on the mailing list. Never tested it. I saw your post on the list. Someone else might be able to help you there.