Regarding the sunsetting of Quartz Composer, Sunsetting Quartz Composer in VDMX6 — VDMX - MAC VJ SOFTWARE :
I’m hoping we can get Cube Map.qtz back in some way, or would be great if someone could point to an existing viable alternative for its functionality.
Cube Map 2.fs.zip (1.7 KB)
Added a bunch of face flips and X Y position adjustments.
Lmk if it works for you.
Seems to work really well. Above and beyond. Bravo!
No problem.
Maybe others can comment on this post with other QC FX that they miss and we could see about turning them into .fs FX if they aren’t already!
Thanks!
I would love an updated Rutt Etra plugin, thanks.
Yep, it’s built in to the latest version of VDMX
Thanks for the updates about Rutt-Etra. I missed that one.
I’ve been missing the datamosh most. RGB Delay and the distortion from Analog Glitch would be nice to have back too, although I didn’t use them as much.
Yes, Please, i’d like to also request-
HSL Edge Overlay.qtz
Impossible Tunnel.qtz
Cube Map.qtz
Accordingly, if any of these FX are relatively trivial to convert from ISF to Metal or VUO, a tutorial with someone talking, while screen recording, their way through the process of making the conversion into Metal would be nice to see and learn from.
Cubemap was posted in earlier in the thread as an isf file.
I was a big fan of Quartz Composer ever since it was PixelShox Studio. At the time, I happened to work for the company that acqui-hired PixelShox and its developer, and was pleased to see Quartz Composer integrating nicely. The original concept was so strong it didn’t appear to me to need a ton of work beyond the initial polish that came from the PixelShox → QC transition, and it seemed pretty well positioned to last a decent while (by Big Fruit’s standards anyway ;).
I don’t think it had to end that way for QC. My impression was that the bulk of the work and the concept were a labor of love from Pierre. He hung around for several years after the acquisition, evangelizing QC during that time, but after he bailed, QC didn’t seem to change appreciably, so it was only a matter of time. Honestly it lasted longer than I thought it would (… and I guess I’m sorry for having low standards?)
I once attended a little show-and-tell preso Pierre did about Quartz Composer for the internal software engineering audience. I remember being impressed and thankful for Pierre’s enthusiasm about QC and the key patterns and concepts behind it. After the session I hung around and eagerly showed him a QC comp of a Mac OS X screensaver wherein some of the denizens of Bikini Bottom would periodically appear doing characteristic things - SpongeBob was blowing bubbles that drifted around; Gary would inch across the frame periodically, never looking anywhere other than directly into the camera; Squidward was wailing on the clarinet, and I had some musical note ‘particles’ generating based on analysis of microphone audio. Pierre was not unkind, but probably wishes he could have spent that two minutes in some other way :)
Randomly, I looked him up just now to see what he’s doing these days. I guess he was the CTO of Weight Watchers until recently. I don’t know him at all, but even so, I found it a bit perplexing, until stumbling on some info that could explain why somebody with that level of enthusiasm and ability would choose to be a CTO for a large corp in a totally unrelated domain.
Separately, let me also say that it’s great to see you investing in Vuo integration. Spiritually, it seems like a great match. Team Vuo correctly predicted QC’s eventual demise, and despite operating with an astonishingly smaller budget than that of Big Fruit, I predict Vuo will easily live longer than QC did. Sustained effort over time, and a sufficiently permissive license, eventually outweighs the significant but fleeting, time-boxed efforts of even the world’s largest fruit vendors, since anybody who sells that much fruit must necessarily also be allergic to open source (except under very specific circumstances).
Cheers!
