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It is my great pleasure to announce immediate availability of the μ [myu] Max-Unity Interoperability Toolkit version 1.0. μ [myu] is designed to simplify communication between the Max/MSP/Jitter http://www.cycling74.com and Unity3D http://www.unity3d.com rapid prototyping environments. Utilizing the TCP network packets, μ [myu] allows for easy bi-directional control of Unity3D and Max/MSP/Jitter assets, as well as importing of dynamic Jitter textures into Unity3D scene. Apart from the Jitter-specific texture communication protocol, μ [myu] relies upon the netsend/netreceive framework, thus making it also compatible with Pure-Data http://www.pure-data.info.

Max/Msp/Jitter and Unity3D logos are trademarks of their respective owners.

WHY μ?
Max/MSP/Jitter and Pure-Data offer unprecedented flexibility in digital signal processing, particularly audio, as well as easy integration of external controllers and sensors, video, and 3D assets, while Unity3D is an advanced scalable and optimized 3D gaming engine with integrated intuitive scene editor and physics engine. By coupling their strengths μ [myu] aims to expand their rapid prototyping potential with minimal integration overhead.

μ [myu] was developed at DISIS http://disis.music.vt.edu and is available for download from the DISIS website http://disis.music.vt.edu/main/portfolio.html

For a YouTube tech demo please visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=137huPA9sto
A high-resolution video available at http://disis.music.vt.edu/main/portfolio.html

COPYRIGHT
μ [myu] copyright DISIS 2008.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the version 3 of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

For additional info on the GNU General Public License see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/

Questions, Comments, and PR Contacts: ico@vt.edu

11 months ago
tohm

You are my hero! I had been fighting with this and had given up months ago.

This is fantastic! I will let you know how my trial goes once i get a chance to work with it.

11 months ago
Anthony Palomba

Wow, I gotta say this is fantastic! I have used Unity3D on some
game titles and it is a great environment to work in. The thought
of having it integrated with Max has my mouth watering. I would
love to be able to do live visuals that tell the narrative of a
musical piece. Kinda of like a film score in reverse. Doing
this in Unity would be awesome. I am on Vista so I will have to
wait for 2.5, but I will definitely be giving this a try.

11 months ago
tohm

First... This is great, works wonderfully...

Thank you very much for including the JitRecieveTexture Alt... Along with Windows users comment in your help file, that change of file allows those of us with the Unity Indy License to use it as well <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_smile.gif" border=0 alt="Smile">

Have you noticed a substantial change in performance with using the non-plugin version, or is it tolerable?

11 months ago
ico

Thank you all for your kind comments!

Regarding the alt texture mode, unfortunately it is considerably less efficient (although still useful) than the C plug-in version simply due to the way Unity3D deals with low-level texture processing inside C#. We had contacted Unity3D developers in hope they would expand their API to provide a more efficient way of addressing textures and although the particular developer we were in contact with agreed that there was room for improvement, as of right now we are not aware of any such changes in this area.

Hope this helps!

Best wishes,

Ico

11 months ago
ico

Once again, many thanks all for your interest and kind words!

Finally got around to posting another video, this time showcasing [myu] in a real-world setting.

Part of the Revo:oveR collection, "elemental" is an interactive communal soundscape installation that premiered last November (2008) in Roanoke, VA (USA) as part of the grand opening of the Taubman Museum of Art. The exhibit ran non-stop for approximately 5 months and relied upon a bi-directional communication between Max/MSP/Jitter and Unity3d.

For those interested, a brief online preview of the exhibit can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA-9BOgc1gk

Best wishes,

Ico

11 months ago
tohm

Ico,

I am having a blast working with this... getting some great results <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_smile.gif" border=0 alt="Smile">

I can't figure one thing out though... I have been able to send and recieve all sorts of data both to and from max... But I can't figure out how to send something like a onMouseDown/ onMouseUp to trigger something in max. I think it has something to do with the true false statement being sent. Right now the code is set to float, but I need to change to bool? Maybe? The code would have to be in the JitMessenger.cs code, right?

I don't speak C#, hahaha, and that might be part of the problem. Any help would be most appreciated.

Thanks for all your great work on this, I'll post an example game I'm working on as soon as I can get past these few thing I need to figure out.

Cheers

10 months ago
ico

Glad to hear you found myu useful. I think you are right, we did not explicitly include bool data type as one could easily describe those in int/float terms as 0 and 1 with negligible increase in bandwidth overhead. So, I guess one way would be to translate those kinds of calls into 0 and 1 and then send them via myu.

Hope this helps!

Best wishes,

10 months ago
Axiom-Crux

shouldn't this be in the jitter forum?

10 months ago
ico

Interesting point. Although, if you ask me I'd say given that [myu] pertains to Max as a whole rather than just Jitter (even though it does provide some jitter-specific features) it may be more appropriate here.

Best wishes,

10 months ago
Anthony Palomba

No actually, I think this is definitely appropriate for this
list. I am very interested in musical visualizations and
am very excited that Myu is available.

10 months ago
Axiom-Crux

maybe just posting a link to this thread in the jitter forum would be nice, so that jitter users that dont check the max thread would find it.

Im about to try it out, Ive been waiting to try unity for a long time now in hopes that someone would make something like this, im super excited that you have!

10 months ago
kirilll

hey, is the download link broken?
I can't access http://disis.music.vt.edu/main/portfolio.html

cheers,
k

10 months ago
ico

AFAIK the link should be ok (at least it connects ok from this end). Are you still experiencing problems accessing it?

Best wishes,

10 months ago
kirilll

yes, I got it now,

cheers

10 months ago
Mrboni

Hi all,

I'm having trouble using the connecting to the network port using the provided max patch.

When I try to connect using the netsend object (port 32003) I get a message along the lines of - "stream connection failure (error 61)"

Anyone have an idea what to try to get this to connect?

I'm using Max 5 and OSX Leopard

Cheers,
Will

9 months ago
ico

If you haven't changed anything in the patch and/or Unity file, my guess would be that your firewall might be on. Beyond that it is difficult to know without having access to additional information.

Hope this helps!

Ico

9 months ago
Mrboni

Hi Ico, I get this error before making any modifications.

With the original Unity and Max files open I click the 'connect localhost 32003' button in the Max->Unity control patcher and receive the following two error messages in the Max window -

'netsend: connecting to port 32003'
'netsend: connecting stream socket: Connection refused (61)'

I'm using OSX Leopard and have tried setting 'Allow Incoming Connections' in the firewall section of system preferences to no avail. As I understand it, this should disable the firewall.

Any ideas, or more useful info I could provide?

Cheers,
Will

9 months ago
ico

You need to start the Unity program if you are opening it in editor. Alternately, I am not entirely sure what might be causing problems. Is there perhaps something else using the said port?

Hope this helps!

Best wishes,

Ico

9 months ago
Mrboni

Ok, sorry. I hadn't tried running the unity program before connecting... It's working perfectly!

Thanks

9 months ago
vjanomolee

Hello All,
I have been working with Max/msp - unity interoperability since before this toolkit came along but it completely opened the doors for what I was trying to achieve. And for that I say THANK YOU VERY MUCH ICO!and all that helped create myu

After a years worth of work.. I present to the Unity and Max Community:
http://www.iSensorii.com

iSensorii is currently on exhibit in the Dallas Museum of Art.
I have made my standalone Max , Unity and iPhone apps available for download.

Would love to have more testers if anyone is interested.

3 months ago
Mrboni

Hi. This looks very interesting. I don't have an iphone but I'll have a play.

Is there any way I could have a look at you Unity source project? I'm trying to do something quite similar with Max and Unity, but am not as far down the road as you.

Cheers
Will

3 months ago
vjanomolee

Will,
got anything to trade?
I'm still no pro at max , so I would love some good patches or externals. Perhaps you have a nice collection going?
I would've put up all source projects for everyone but I spent over a year of my time crafting them. I'm sure you can understand that.
Consider this an open invitation to everyone that I am willing to trade
~All best

3 months ago

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