Re: first impressions of QC

the debug node that was in pixelshox is gone? is there another way of monitoring the values of several
nodes at once? you can hover over a input to get it displayed in realtime but not several nodes
at once, any solution?

You could create your own debug macro patch that has several inputs, concatenate their values into a string using string printer, then displays the result on screen through String From Text and Billboard

also to my dismay, many of the controller nodes like delay, memory, differential are gone now? I guess you can emulate them with _javascript_ and plugging the output into the input of the _javascript_ node but I'm wary of a performance hit with running millions of different _javascript_ nodes. Maybe I'm missing something, I would like to store past values with a delay is there any way with the current patches that are in QC?

No, it's not do-able in the current Quartz Composer. First release was mostly targeted as deterministic contents creation (because of QT compatibility), so patches that make rendering a frame depends on the previous one are mostly not there.

it would be even cooler if you could drag a folder into the editor window and have that appear as an "folder images" patch. Also could "folder images" be extended to allow quicktimes as well as images? (or maybe this should be a seperate node?)

you're right, that's something missing

the handling of quicktimes and images is inconsistent and confusing. quicktimes are loaded with a path in an input value field while the "image importer" patch has no input field, it's a "setting" instead? the "image downloader" takes a URL and not a path so you can't drag and drop an image into the input field. it's just a bit odd, I would have thought these would be handled the same?

you're right, it needs to be simplified.

However, contrary to Image Downloader or Image With Movie, Image importer saves the image within the composition file. That's why, it goes through the Settings inspector pane - the image data becomes part of the patch's settings.

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	>first impressions of QC (From: Roger Bolton <email@hidden>)