Hi, day1 into POPs // bug spotted on the Normalize POP

Yooo

Hi everyone I’m so happy to be there starting to play with the POPs
I just started yesterday and I spotted a bug I think


To be said I just started playing in total chaos mode exploring random nodes and trying random stuff without understanding everything! I’ll read later alot
This is so cool how different and close it is from the SOPs and what I achieved to do in my first session,

SO the bug I spotted is in the normalize POP,
I wanted to export values from a chop to the parameter mode1 / mode2 and mode3 to put the use in a random chaotic mode but I cannot export to mode2 and mode3 parametter, everytime the export goes to mode1.
Ofc I do understand this kind of par isn’t meant to change at a big frequency but that’s exactly what I tried to test LOL !

++ I wanna put a special spotlight on the Math Mix node, I really feel it will be a key node to make crazy things but I really didn’t understand how to use it, my main ignorance is in the combine tab the A / B and so on stuff I imagine a bit but we select atribute here and I rly don’t understand which input OP is used and how, I’ll give some research on it in the next days, what I saw tweaking par like a kid not understanding was rly rly interesting !

So far I just feel I need to understand what exactly are attributes and what we could do after having the knowledge, I feel this is the key.
I havent played much with pointcloud top stuff before I felt all the things were too cryptic for me to learn (and give time to it to achieve only one specific aesthetic that I am not really a big fan) BUT now I feel POPs are the simplifier crazy shit that will get me to a whole new land of visuals that I’m so happy to explore !!

To be said this october I want to give alot of time experimenting in TD with the POPs doing the Touchtober 2024 (each day I create a visual)

AND I do it on stream so if some of you wanna chat about POPs and see me working in TD (crazy glitch artist, it’s a trigger warning) I’d be so happy to see you say hi on my twitch chanel (I’ll stream every day at different timings depending of the other thing in life)
https://www.twitch.tv/f_lse_no
replay of the long yesterday stream : https://dashboard.twitch.tv/u/f_lse_no/content/video-producer/edit/2265490908 (I streamed the installation process at the start lmao)

AND if you just wanna see the art output each day it’s on my insta : https://www.instagram.com/f_lse_no/?theme=dark

I’ll try to make future post to storytell a bit here my exploration of the alpha along of my touchtober challenge, next stream I’ll start with the exemples to read some use of some nodes, we’ll see where the inspiration will come :smiley: obviously I’ll try to glitch it,

I hope trying to break thing will be helpfull for the Alpha :smiley:

Seeya,
F_

Hello @F_lse_no ,
Thanks for for the feedback! The bug you spotted on the Normalize POP is related to resizable parameters in general. We will look into this. In the meantime, you can use work around for your workflow. You can expend the parameter and bind/export to the rows added under the parameter.

The main idea behind the Math Mix POP is that it pulls multi-POPs together and gives the conglomerate of attributes unique names, which subsequently hides which POPs the attributes come from. You can then map these attributes to A, B and C and do operations with them. For more details, you can check the wiki.

Understanding the concept of attribute is indeed really important to grasp how POPs work.
You can check the Attribute section on Learning About POPs if you want to learn more.

I look forward to see what you’ll be cooking with POPs this month!

Cheers

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Soo coool
A ye exportint to the line below works fine ! I’ll try it.
Merci for these links ! :smiley:

Hi Benoit, yes that’s a bug that you can’t export onto the second or third menu. We will fix that.

I highly recommend that you learn about Attributes and Math Mix in the Overview.toe file and Leaning About POPs page.