POIBOT ~ v0.5 Has arrived

That's F'ing awesome!
Must find time to play with it
:5

Matt- thats fantastic, a brilliant achievement- haven't played with it much but from what I've seen so far this has so much potential (and realised potential)

Now I've just got to get it working on my phone and I can plot patterns on the tube

Chut

i wish i had a computer that played flash properly so i could play with this porpperly now. im gonna sneak onto my dads later and have a play there i think

sounds kicking though

although you do realise im not gonna be happy til its got style you reckon its possible to program style? seems to me thats mostly what poi is about though.

maybe you could giveit a brain and it could learn style. i remember a while ago rev was telling me some science dudes had managed to link a few bbrain cells up to a flight simulator and eventually 'the brain' taught itself to fly. or i think thats how the story went...

That is most impressive

Dude, that is awesome, plain and simple

does anybody else get a weird stop and flash when the pattern loops? Maybe it is because of mozilla... It shows up some weird shit over the top left and right guys too.

looks great! With loadVars, you mean loadVars(url)? I might be able to help with that, it's been a while. Why not use xml instead? I can send you a wrapper class to use that makes using xml really easy in flash if you'd like. Send me a pm if you want matt. Great job tho, still needs some work(the math needs some refining), but is definitely a great start. Did you use a 3d to flash program(like swift or illustrate) to make some of the animations? Thanks for doing this.

Those arms look pretty uncomfortable
Could you possibly have an option to switch the path from following directly from one input to the next, to following a kind of fitted curve drawn out by the inputs? It might make it look a bit less 'robotic', not that it's always a bad thing...

horizontal / floor plane is a bit fucked....

Hey matt i love it man. I like the idea and i see you have a great love for programming Flash MX Just like me.

I would love to help you with it ill show you some of the stuff i made.

Latest Game...Volcano Runner :: http://img122.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img122&image=bouncermxfinalagain0vb.swf

Easing :: http://img122.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img122&image=easing2qy.swf

Easing Varation :: http://img122.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img122&image=easing16tp.swf

Another Varation :: http://img122.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img122&image=easingrandom6au.swf

I also love API. Thats where you make thinkgs using only code. Here check these out. Just copy and paste straight into your actions panel

Change Background Colour to BLACk
Change FPS to 25
Change Stage Width to 550 and Height to 100

Copy and paste

[code:1]
sw = Stage.width;
sh = Stage.height;
side = 12.7;
function addBo) {
addedBox = createEmptyMovieClip("box"+i, i++);
addedBox.lineStyle(1, 0xFFFFFF, 0);
addedBox.beginFill(Math.random()*0xFFFFFF);
addedBox.lineTo(side, 0);
addedBox.lineTo(side, side);
addedBox.lineTo(0, side);
addedBox.lineTo(0, 0);
addedBox.endFill();
addedBox._x = sw-30;
addedBox._y = Math.random()*sh;
addedBox._rotation = Math.random()*180;
addedBox.xspeed = Math.random()*3+7;
addedBox.yspeed = Math.random();
addedBox.rotation = Math.random()*5+10;
addedBox.up = Math.random()*1<0.5;
addedBox.left = Math.random()*1<0.5;
addedBox.onEnterFrame = function() {
this._x -= this.xspeed;
this.up ? this._y += this.yspeed : this._y -= this.yspeed;
this.left ? this._rotation += this.rotation : this._rotation -= this.rotation;
if (this._x<0) {
this.removeMovieClip();
}
};
}
setInterval(addBox, 100);

[/code:1]

A Varation to this is

[code:1]
sw = Stage.width;
sh = Stage.height;
side = 12.7;
function addBo) {
addedBox = createEmptyMovieClip("box"+i, i++);
addedBox.lineStyle(1, 0xFFFFFF, 0);
addedBox.beginFill(Math.random()*0xFFFFFF);
addedBox.lineTo(side, 0);
addedBox.lineTo(side, side);
addedBox.lineTo(0, side);
addedBox.lineTo(0, 0);
addedBox.endFill();
addedBox._x = sw-30;
addedBox._y = Math.random()*sh;
addedBox._rotation = Math.random()*180;
addedBox.xspeed = Math.random()*3+7;
addedBox.yspeed = Math.random();
addedBox.rotation = Math.random()*5+10;
addedBox.up = Math.random()*1<0.5;
addedBox.left = Math.random()*1<0.5;
addedBox.onEnterFrame = function() {
this._alpha -= 1.75;
this._x -= this.xspeed;
this.up ? this._y += this.yspeed : this._y -= this.yspeed;
this.left ? this._rotation += this.rotation : this._rotation -= this.rotation;
if (this._x<0 || this._alpha<=0) {
this.removeMovieClip();
}
};
}
setInterval(addBox, 100);
[/code:1]

Another Varation which looks cool is

[code:1]
sw = Stage.width;
sh = Stage.height;
side = 12.7;
aa = Math.random()*6;
ab = Math.random()*6;
ac = Math.random()*6;
function addBo) {
addedBox = createEmptyMovieClip("box"+i, i++);
addedBox.lineStyle(1, 0xFFFFFF, 0);
addedBox.beginFill(col);
addedBox.lineTo(side, 0);
addedBox.lineTo(side, side);
addedBox.lineTo(0, side);
addedBox.lineTo(0, 0);
addedBox.endFill();
addedBox._x = sw-30;
addedBox._y = Math.random()*sh;
addedBox._rotation = Math.random()*180;
addedBox.xspeed = Math.random()*3+7;
addedBox.yspeed = Math.random();
addedBox.rotation = Math.random()*5+10;
addedBox.up = Math.random()*1<0.5;
addedBox.left = Math.random()*1<0.5;
addedBox.onEnterFrame = function() {
this._x -= this.xspeed;
this.up ? this._y += this.yspeed : this._y -= this.yspeed;
this.left ? this._rotation += this.rotation : this._rotation -= this.rotation;
if (this._x<0) {
this.removeMovieClip();
}
};
}
setInterval(addBox, 100);
_root.onEnterFrame = function() {
red = Math.sin(aa += .02)*127+128;
green = Math.sin(ab += .05)*127+128;
blue = Math.sin(ac += .09)*127+128;
col = red << 16 | green << 8 | blue;
};
[/code:1]

Those are a few i have loads more varations.

Heres a few more

Change Background Colour to BLACk
Change FPS to 30
Change Stage Width and Height to anything you want

[code:1]
sw = Stage.width;
sh = Stage.height;
aa = Math.random()*6;
ab = Math.random()*6;
ac = Math.random()*6;
i = 0;
function shapecreate() {
shapey = createEmptyMovieClip("shape"+i, i);
red = Math.sin(aa += .02)*127+128;
green = Math.sin(ab += .05)*127+128;
blue = Math.sin(ac += .09)*127+128;
col = red << 16 | green << 8 | blue;
with (shapey) {
i++;
lineStyle(Math.random()*5+10, col, Math.random()*50+50);
moveTo(Math.random()*sw, Math.random()*sh);
lineTo(Math.random()*sw, Math.random()*sh);
shapey.onEnterFrame = function() {
_alpha -= 2;
if (_alpha<=0) {
removeMovieClip(this);
}
};
}
}
setInterval(shapecreate, 100);
[/code:1]

Also I was bored so i made a few text tools.

A program which counts the number of letterts in some text :: http://img122.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img122&image=codewordcount1at.swf

And a program which does all the ceaser shifts to some text :: http://img122.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img122&image=ciphershifterfinished5xn.swf

Well thats it i have loads more experiments to show but it would take up to much time. so thats it.

If you like anything contact me at

Hope you like it

~Amish

Matt, that's fuckin' awesome.

I'm Natas, a buddy of Matt(NYC). I did 3D computer graphics and virtual reality programming for 7 years. So if you need any help with the 3D algorithms, let me know.

Getting the arms to move naturally is a pretty tough problem (solving multiple simultaneous equations with constraints), but doing the move from the text description is doable, just need a little parser with the basic patterns defined.

Adding some trails of variable length would be cool to see where the poi have been, to look sort of like zuni poi, or those trails you see when you're.... yeah, whatever.

Damn nice work!

Find me on AIM if you wanna chat

I think Director's harder, at least in the programming environment, Lingo is alot more difficult to use than javascript.

Hey matt, it looks like Shockwave understands IK rigging from 3ds max, so in theory you should be able to import your constraints from your IK rig, just means a little less programming in the end. If you need a fully rigged human body, I'm probrably not the only person here you could get one from, from the sounds of things

This page also has a link to the shockwave export plugin for 3ds max.
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/director/articles/char_anim.html
main index page
http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/work_3d/models_use_in_sw/index.html

Ahh, here we go. Lingo Bones, an api to program Bone rigs. That seems to be what you'll need for director.

here's the entire scripting ref, I found lingo bones buried in the 3d objects area
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/director/mx2004/release_update_en/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm?href=20_3d_a3.htm

Hope this helps, you may well already be past this :twisted:

ahh, thats great man..I was wondering wtf Havok was until I saw that reactor is made by havok. Pretty nifty that you can import all of those physics dirtectly from 3ds. Reactor's a great plugin

Does the latest version of director allow you to script with languages other than Lingo?

I think the one advantage that javascript over lingo is how it's a bit more object oriented, one big preference for me anyways. You have it rendered in shockwave?? heh, you definitely get props for adding the stretchiness of socks. Hyperloops will be a bitch to implement methinks

1st damn
2nd DAMN

looks awsome matt
can u make it downloadable?
iv can only use it for a min before the browser cuts out and i lose whatever iv been simulating. also some times the arms fuck up (they go through each other) no biggie tho.

yeah once some of us get used to using it then it won't be 2 long before we nail all the basic patterns.

nice work

Well Damn! 8O

This is so sweet! Just found it as I seemed to miss it while on my holiday!

Great work!

***Garth hangs head in shame cause he said he'd do something like this and never got around to it***

Sooo Much better That I caould have done. You have the programming skills and the artistic talent. My programs always look like crap and I never finish them!

No we just need an addon that translates Revs posts to moves on the poibot!

(Just kidding Rev I'm starting to understand some of your posts now after finding my own way there. Still way behind you but looking back on some of those earlier posts I got confused on I'm starting to see the light. Anti spin rocks! Although you have moved on since then! )

Nice work Matt!

Hey mat you wouldnt by an chance want to release the fla for poi bot would you. You knwo so we or i could take apeek at the programming??

how did i miss this shit?!!??

matt, you seriously rock dude

cole. x