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Here we go again. It’s been almost three weeks now I’ve started working in our new studio based in Bordeaux. Me and fellow Mike spent the last three months mending the whole place, from building an entire room to revamping the inside decaying walls. It was hard times but we finally achieved our labour and we are now enjoying ourselves in this lovely place. High roof, genuine vault, old rocks, space!, no doubt all of these elements are very inspiring and calling for some happenings to be held there in the near future.

On a more virtual side, I’ve kept on improving Vision Factory, I am now relatively satisfied with the direction it took and hopefully it will be soon ready for a public release. I’ve been working on integrating Javascript more deeply at different levels in the application :

• Window management. Easy fullscreen mode & change display mode.
• Files managing + sockets programming through jsio.
• Sqlite supported through jssqlite.
• Xml integration. I just discovered this one in Spidermonkey, combined with file managing, it’s now damn easy to load and walk through xml documents thanks to E4X.
• GUI interface, rendered with openGL. Write some xml interface description file, then the engine takes care of creating javascript objects for you. It’s then made easy to implement widgets callbacks in your script for parameters binding purposes for example (screenshot)
• Integration of some Javascript libraries implementing some useful classes : events managing, commands design pattern, …

This video is a sample of an animation I created for the visuals of my friend Sevenfive. We worked together to synchronise animation and music through the use of midi messages an again javascript was there to ease the process of linking events to animation parameters.
Overall I am not fully satisfied with the result as the whole thing looks flat and a bit cranky. Anyway, this was a nice start for our future (and promising) collaboration. As usual, more to come !

Photos are courtesy of Michaël Zancan, Music on the video by Sevenfive.