Using the computer lab

Also, Massive is now installed on
PC21 , PC22, and PC23 in the computer lab. (I'm assuming they are ones in the back room)

Session 3

Hi everyone,

Just a reminder that for tomorrow you are to present a quick example of your first Sound Agent. (As I mentioned its fine if you work in pairs on this) The focus should be on smaller numbers of agents and focussing on the ways that they (and especially their geometry) interact.

Afterwards we will be looking at VISION as another source of sensing for the agents. (I'll post the example files a bit later)

see you tomorrow

Nick

License errors again....

Well, this time it's me. I can ping the license server so connection is OK I think.

Nick, it's unlikely that Massive/AA Sysadmins have a fix for this so I would suggest the following:
First run a test to see what happens on the client when the lic server is reset. If it just hangs until the license can be re-established (ie. no crashing/no work is lost), then I think we could ask the AA sysadmins to set up a job on the server that kicks the lic server/mhost every 12 hours (or even shorter intervals, like every 2 hours).
In my experience this can sometimes be the only temp workaround when dealing with crap homebrewed licensing software. What you think?

I can't prep for class now (although admittedly it's late) - I just wanted to do a batch run through the tutorials and it worked earlier in the week. It's going to be very frustrating to have to schedule one's work around when the license server is up and running. Getting more licenses won't neccesarily solve this I think.

Best,

Henrik

Session 2

Hi everyone,

Here is the link to download the agent files we will be looking at this week:

Session2 files

We will be reviewing some topics from last week as well as:

-More advanced uses of sound (Priorities and multiple decisions)
-Variables and expressions
-Beacons and frequencies
-blendshapes and controlling geometry



See you tomorrow,

Nick

software and tutorials

There are two visiting students in this class who had to miss the first week. Can anyone help guide us to getting the software and tutorials? I assume Nick has them but I haven't heard from him about it.

Thanks, David + Andrew

license working again!!

Thanks for your suggestion, queue moan and rolling eyes did work. I went to the computer room, they restart the server and after that it is working at the school and at home. They said that the reason could be that there is more than 10 people using the program and there is just 10 licenses.

license error

I still have a license error at home and at school so I can´t open Massive. I tried to uninstall and install it again but does not work. Which could be the reason for that???

Session 1

Each of you should have received an email invitation to be an author on the blog. If not let me know. I would suggest that you subscribe to the Atom feed of the blog by adding the link:

http://mindplusmatter.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Its important that you look through the manual and the tutorials to begin to get a better understanding of how the program works as there's a lot to take in. The main difference between programming with "fuzzy logic" rather than traditional boolean is that you set up a network of possible outcomes which evaluate to certain degrees rather than to set values.

Important to Review in the Manual

Intro to fuzzy logic in massive
Input Nodes
Output Nodes
fuzz nodes
And nodes
defuzz nodes

In the tutorials Have a look @

1-1 basic skeletons + skeleton01.mov
1-2 basic channels
2-3 placing agents + place01.mov
2-5 sound + sound01.mov (this shows you how to make the agent from today)


For next week each of you should have produced a variation of the sound agent by either adding to the form or adding new logic OR BOTH!

As I mentioned, any questions or discoveries should be posted here and I'll be adding new things along the way as well