Hi Charlie, I am sorry, but I don't know of such a book (or any books about Quartz Composer) :-/
But I think you may be interested in having a closer look at: - Timeline Patch: switch the time base from "local" to "external" by contrl-clicking the patch. This gives you an extra input value where you can push in the animation time. Anyways it is much more flexible than the interpolation patch. - Stop Watch Patch: to start/stop/reset your animation - Network Broadcaster/Network Receiver Patch: Don't know if this is the answer to your networking stuff, but worth a look. You can control several compositions over a local bonjour network with it. - Java Script Patch: If I have a complex logic I prefer to write it in Java Script rather than implementing it with complex conditional patches. Best, Achim Breidenbach Boinx Software On 25.08.2010, at 18:46, Charlie Francis wrote: > Hi, > > I'm pretty new to QC, but I've been reading up and experimenting with things > to try and get to grips with it. > > My main aim is to be able to animate/fade in/fade out/shrink/grow sprites > around the composition, and then hopefully I'll be able to link this to > commands. Sending UDP broadcasts to the composition to control certain > actions. > > I have setup some simple animations, but so far I can only do them using > conditional patches reading the patch time, and then going through an > interpolation patch. > > I know that QC isn't really an animation tool, but is there any books or > articles that anyone could share that would help me achieve my goal? > > Regards, > Charlie > _______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > Quartzcomposer-dev mailing list ([email protected]) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/quartzcomposer-dev/achim%40boinx.com > > This email sent to [email protected] _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Quartzcomposer-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/quartzcomposer-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
