omino pixel blog

Excerpts from a personal five-evening whirlwind tour to get up to speed on some “modern interactive graphics.”

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A minor revision to the Reason Rack Extension WBL5515 is available in the Propellerhead Shop. This version corrects some subtle bugs with track automation and note recording, and adds some responsiveness to incoming notes. Also, a small gold star is visible on the rear-facing panel. Enjoy.

Just a quick note that we are branching out into audio plugins, as well. Our first free Rack Extension for Propellerheads Reason will soon be available.

Omino Plug-in Suite has been updated!

Most importantly… it installs correctly for AE CS6. (*yawn*. Sorry for the delay.)

Put most excitingly, scripts for omino_python now let you name the parameters. Earlier versions just named parameters like “float 0” and “color 2”. Now, each script can define the names of the parameters it uses.

Before:

Which is a bit overwhelming. Most of those parameters don’t do anything.

But now, by including a second callback ompy_params(d), you can show only the parameters you use, named as you like:

def ompy_main(c):
    ctx = c.layer_out_context
    ctx.set_source_rgb(c.colors[0].r, c.colors[0].g, c.colors[0].b)
    ctx.move_to(c.points[0].x, c.points[0].y)
    ctx.set_font_size(c.floats[0])
    ctx.rotate(c.floats[1] / 57.29577951)
    ctx.show_text(str(c.floats[2]))

def ompy_params(d):
    d.floatDescs[0].name = "font size"
    d.floatDescs[1].name = "rotation"
    d.floatDescs[2].name = "value to print"
    d.pointDescs[0].name = "print position"
    d.colorDescs[0].name = "print color"

Produces:

Download the Omino Plug-in Suite (for Mac OS X only, alas) absolutely free at Omino.