And do you have to?
I can get great visuals going in G-Force in iTunes. I haven't tried Standalone yet. I downloaded Darkroom to output my visuals as Quicktime, but there seems to be no way to do it without writing a successful script, which I have no experience at. I even opened up "Just A Spectrum", the example script, and changed a few parameters for the waveshape, colormap, and flowfield, saving it as a file under a different name. Nothing happened when I used this script.
Is there a quickee way to capture your settings in G-Force and then use those settings in Darkroom instead of running a script? If not, are there guidelines somewhere on this website that will help me write a script?
Using G-Force and Darkroom - how do you write a script?
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The simplest "scriptless" way, is to select the Boot.text file in your G-Force folder as the script source for Darkroom. You will have no control over what you get, but it will be a way to record your output.
Creating a scriupt is a little more time consuming. My method is to run G-Force while listening to the song I want to use, and save the configs I like (Control-Shift-key). Then I open an existing script to use as a template and copy paste these configs into the time increments. Then I listen to the song again while looking at this script file and change the time markers to sync to elements of the song (chorus, beat changes, solos, etc), And then when complete I save the script with a unique name [TIP: if you save the file with the exact name of the song as listed in your iTunes library, when that song plays the script will run—thus giving you a preview of the output from Darkroom without the wait).
When I like the output, I set the song and script up in Darkroom and set it to record while I do something else.
Creating a scriupt is a little more time consuming. My method is to run G-Force while listening to the song I want to use, and save the configs I like (Control-Shift-key). Then I open an existing script to use as a template and copy paste these configs into the time increments. Then I listen to the song again while looking at this script file and change the time markers to sync to elements of the song (chorus, beat changes, solos, etc), And then when complete I save the script with a unique name [TIP: if you save the file with the exact name of the song as listed in your iTunes library, when that song plays the script will run—thus giving you a preview of the output from Darkroom without the wait).
When I like the output, I set the song and script up in Darkroom and set it to record while I do something else.
Thanks for the info. I'm using a Mac, though, and I don't see any way to adjust the sensitivity or responsiveness in any of the example scripts. Sometimes the script just produces a black screen.
I went back to the old way of doing it - playing G-Force on my snappy G5 mac and recording it via video out onto my older G3 mac through a DV camcorder.
I need to control the output as I'm using the visuals as an element in the surround-sound DVD of our band.
I went back to the old way of doing it - playing G-Force on my snappy G5 mac and recording it via video out onto my older G3 mac through a DV camcorder.
I need to control the output as I'm using the visuals as an element in the surround-sound DVD of our band.