Hi Omer! Thank you for the feedback.
First I get the motion sensor into values using aka.bookmotion, a great tool located at http://www.iamas.ac.jp/~aka/max/ There, you can get all sorts of interesting input devices to work in Max. Once you capture the values (very simple using the help file) you need to get it into a game. Any game will do… but it’s tricky to send things out of max again - much easier to get it in there. So what I did was use Midiout and then use a program called MidiStroke to turn Midi data into keyboard presses. Then I could just open up an online flash game and use the keyboard presses there. (left, right, up arrow and so forth)
thanks James, with AKA objects it was indeed very easy to get the SMS coordinates into max. Very cool!
Hi again James,
Would you mind sharing your patch with me so I could learn from it? I d/l MidiStroke, but I didn’t manage to get my patch to actually do something with it. plus I got terribly addicted to this lame flash pac man game by paul neave. I spent more time playing then working lately! :)
cheers
Omer
Hi Omer,
I am including screenshots of the Patch, and of MidiStroke. MidiStroke can be very fussy. All of this requires a bit of tipping and tweaking, and a lot of patience. Check out the pictures below and see if that helps:
and the MidiStroke window (this is for one value, but you can extend it to the others as well)
You’re awesome!
Thanks!
No problem. Let me know if you get it running.
Hi James,
I enjoy your website very much.
Would you mind explaining a little about how you got the sudden motion sensor info into max?
I want to try to make a patch like yours so I could play with it too :)
Thanks
Omer (Israel)