VLM 3.5 preliminary video

Just as advertised, a preliminary video showing what VLM 3.5 can do.

-edit- Removed to make way for video 2. Ask if you want to see it, I'll reconnect it. -edit-

It's 110MB, so I'd advise a right-click save as... method of viewing.

Please note that this is still early, one of the first test runs of the new system. In his own words-

"Doesn't purport to show the greatest stacks in the world, but shows that you can get nice results in a few seconds by just dropping the default modules into stacks ;)... few minutes of post-pub twiddling recorded for posterity, hopefully enough to show that there is a living breathing lightsynth already made here ;)."

So yeah, seeing as what's here is just preliminary noodling around, I'm pretty excited over Unity. VLM 3.5 is a part of Unity much in the same way Doodle City was part of I, Robot, for those who didn't know.

James

Awesome, thanks to TNL for hosting this. I'm downloading now.

I guess not too many around here are interested, but here's a torrent of another VLM 3.5 video:

http://onizuka.scm.tees.ac.uk/torren...nt.mov.torrent

so if vlm 3.5 is being included with unity, how on earth will we be able to get audio into the gamecube?

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Originally Posted by epmode

so if vlm 3.5 is being included with unity, how on earth will we be able to get audio into the gamecube?

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Suddenly I want Unity on Xbox. :\

You don't pump audio through Unity as it turns out, you just manually cue in beats per minute and then compose the light using the controller. Get a group of four friends together and you get four people creating a major light show. Pump it through a video projector and you've got a rave.

Not too sure about manually entering BPM, personally. What do I know about that kind of thing? But preliminary reports from the group testing it says it's amazing, so we'll see.

Don't forget, you also get a manic arcade game in there as well. :)

James

That was one wickedly awesome video! Thanks for posting that, James!

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so if vlm 3.5 is being included with unity, how on earth will we be able to get audio into the gamecube?

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Although nothing's been said about this, I think it would be outstanding if VLM 3.5 could stream MP3 files through the Ethernet adaptor, in a similar manner to how some media player applications for PlayStation 2 and X-Box can do this. You'd likely also have to have some sort of host software on the PC side that would make the network "aware" of the GameCube, so that it could send the MP3 files to the GameCube.

This would probably sell more Ethernet adaptors to GameCube owners than Phantasy Star Online or Mario Kart: Double Dash ever could. :D

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Originally Posted by James

You don't pump audio through Unity as it turns out, you just manually cue in beats per minute and then compose the light using the controller. Get a group of four friends together and you get four people creating a major light show. Pump it through a video projector and you've got a rave.

Not too sure about manually entering BPM, personally. What do I know about that kind of thing? But preliminary reports from the group testing it says it's amazing, so we'll see.

Don't forget, you also get a manic arcade game in there as well. :)

James

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oh, i have every intention of buying the game, it's only that it could be so much more. i have an unhealthy fascination with winamp lightsynths, so i'd love to be able to use this one the same way. the bpm stuff sounds nice, but i don't have the patience to time/sync my mp3s.

Check out that new video and see if you say the same thing. I'd put it up here but I think Nick might kill me if I do a second 100MB+ download in one thread. :)

James

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You don't pump audio through Unity as it turns out, you just manually cue in beats per minute and then compose the light using the controller.

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Wow... how shitty.

You know, if youre reading this, Minter, you could do that shit on Xbox and still let people use their own mp3s/CDs.