August 2018 - chuck-users - lists.cs.princeton.edu

Chunity (ChucK for Unity): Release!
by Jack Atherton 29 Jul '22

29 Jul '22

Dear all, Hello! I'm happy to announce the initial official release of Chunity (ChucK for Unity)! http://chuck.stanford.edu/chunity/ http://u3d.as/1bvM Chunity is the integration of ChucK in Unity. (For those of you not familiar with the Unity game engine, Chunity gives you the ability to do realtime sound + music generation natively in Unity, tightly coupled to interactions with graphical objects.) You can use most (possibly all?) ChucK features, run new ChucK code on-the-fly at any time, and communicate between Unity and ChucK using "global" (new keyword!) ints, floats, strings, Events, and 1D int and float arrays. (More types to come!) You can even run multiple VMs that share the same strong timing! Check out this video of things people have already made with Chunity: https://vimeo.com/263613454 And check out the original description of Chunity in this NIME paper: http://chuck.stanford.edu/chunity/files/2018-nime-chunity.pdf We want to know what you all do with this! Please feel free to send works in progress, bug reports, feature requests, finished works, etc. to the chuck-users mailing list! We are also planning to send a sparse series of follow-up emails covering tutorials, new features, and cool projects that people in the community have created. Please see the tutorials, documentation, etc. at the official Chunity website: http://chuck.stanford.edu/chunity/ Thank you and happy ChucKing!! Best, Jack + the ChucK team Music:Computing:Design @ CCRMA

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Shred blocking main shred
by Gonzalo 28 Aug '18

28 Aug '18

Hi, I'm working on a big project (www.whole-play.com), tons of classes, tons of calculations happening at various points. My problem is that some of these calculations take too long, up to a few seconds. I thought if I run them in their own shred, the main shred would be unaffected, but it's not the case, and the music stops during those processes. Maybe I'm doing something wrong. I can't post sample code because it's many classes interacting, but I thought maybe someone has ideas on how to tackle this issue? Thanks! Gonzalo -- http://dense13.com http://www.whole-play.com

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chuck 1.4.0.0, global keyword.
by Dana Batali 02 Aug '18

02 Aug '18

Hi all - I'm not sure if this is more of a developer question, but I'll try here first. I'm investigating integrating ChucK into a custom app and am intrigued by the new chunity integration. The key aspects of chunity (for my purposes) are the new global keyword coupled with the ability to send/recv values (and events) from a controlling application. I have two questions: 1. does the new global keyword actually work? In miniAudicle 1.4.0.0 (on windows), i have a one-line script: global int myvar; This produces an error message: [untitled]:line(1).char(33): syntax error which goes away with the removal of the global keyword. 1a. i do see a special branch of chuck called dac-ugen-replacement which may be hold the answers to my question. Perhaps it's only a matter of the windows build being a little behind (due to the grammar change)? 2. is there a github repository for the chunity plugin? I don't see it in the standard chuck github. It's possible that the global keyword is only activated for special builds of chuck and I might be able to get to the bottom of that question by inspecting the chunity builds. Incidentally, I see that ChucK Racks addressed a set of similar problems in a different manner (by extending the chuck environment directly via PluginHost). My impression is that these two activities occurred in parallel and that there may be an advantage in combining the two approaches, perhaps ultimately producing a publicly available .so/.dll as part of the chuck distribution. Advanced thanks for any comments or pointers on these questions! And the usual giant kudos to the ChucK devs for producing such a cool thing!. Regards, Dana Batali

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