Comments on: Animata

Animata

Blazecock Pileon — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:46:02 -0800

Animata is an open source real-time animation software, designed to create animations, interactive background projections for concerts, theatre and dance performances.

By: Marisa Stole the Precious Thing

Marisa Stole the Precious Thing — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 02:02:27 -0800

Looks like I have my afternoon planned.

By: lekvar

lekvar — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 02:17:52 -0800

Cross-platform? I may be learning a new skill soon.

By: louche mustachio

louche mustachio — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 02:43:15 -0800

Newtoynewtoynewtoynewtoynewtoy! I have plans for this. Fun plans.

By: Jimbob

Jimbob — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 03:13:06 -0800

I don't like open source projects that aren't available for Linux. * grumbles as I reboot to Windows... *

By: Marisa Stole the Precious Thing

Marisa Stole the Precious Thing — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 03:47:23 -0800

You can compile it from source. Doesn't seem to work so well in Wine, though.

By: ancientgower

ancientgower — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 06:11:13 -0800

I'm seeing nothing on a MacBook Pro. Anyone else?

By: podwarrior

podwarrior — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 08:25:36 -0800

Works on my MacBook Pro. It would require reading to understand how to hook things up and make them work. I clicked gravity and my skeleton just dropped out of sight. I can't get HELP to work though and highlighting what is in use with a bright yellow box over white text isn't helpful.

By: Pope Guilty

Pope Guilty — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 09:14:47 -0800

You can compile it from source. I thought you had to code specifically for platforms- can you just compile code for any platform?

By: demiurge

demiurge — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 09:37:38 -0800

It looks like it uses FLTK and OpenGL, so it should be fairly easy to compile on other platforms.

By: Kalthare

Kalthare — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:35:37 -0800

According to the developer docs it works under Linux. I've found that most cross-platform open-source projects don't provide binaries for Linux, leaving that task to the various distributions. The only build requirement they list is fltk, but given that the build command is 'scons', I'd guess that list is not quite complete.

By: fuq

fuq — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:37:36 -0800

Seriously, what is up with open source software that is only available for windows? It's open source... but not that open source. I want to play with this but the only windows I have keep the rain out.

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:46:08 -0800

This is great! I know what I'm doing when I get home.

By: niles

niles — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 08:35:39 -0800

Get this: It's available in a Windows binary, but it uses some form of Cygwin to access your hard drive. And it's full blown too - you have to dig around in cygdrive and all that great stuff.

By: Kalthare

Kalthare — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:16:01 -0800

fuq, it's available as binaries for both Windows and Mac OS X, and works fine in Linux if you compile it. What's the trouble?