GNU Rocket ========== GNU Rocket is an intuitive new way of... bah, whatever. It's a sync-tracker, a tool for synchronizing music and visuals in demoscene productions. It consists of a GUI editor that runs on Microsoft Windows, and an ANSI C library that can either communicate with the editor over a network socket, or play back an exported data-set. Compile Editor -------------- GNU Rocket compiles using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. Open editor.sln and select "Build" -> "Build Solution" from the menu to build the editor. Compile Example --------------- GNU Rocket contains an example client called example_bass. This is a simple Direct3D 9.0 and BASS audio library application, that demonstrates how to use the GNU Rocket API. Before compiling the example, you need to make sure you have a recent Microsoft DirectX and BASS SDKs. These can be downloaded from the following web-sites: http://msdn.microsoft.com/directx/ http://www.un4seen.com/ Once the prerequisites are installed, the example can be compiled much like the editor; by opening examples.sln and selecting "Build" -> "Build Solution" from the menu. Using the editor ---------------- The GNU Rocket editor is laid out like a music-tracker; tracks (or columns) and rows. Each track represents a separate "variable" in the demo, over the entire time-domain of the demo. Each row represents a specific point in time. Each row consists of a set of key-frames, which are interpolated over time according to their interpolation modes. Keyboard shortcuts ------------------- Some of the GNU Rocket editor's features are available through the menu and some keyboard shortcut. Here's a list of the supported keyboard shortcuts: Up/Down/Left/Right Move cursor PgUp/PgDn Move cursor 16 rows up/down Home/End Move cursor to begining/end Ctrl+Left/Right Move track Enter Enter key-frame value Del Delete key-frame i Enumerate interpolation mode Space Pause/Resume demo Shift+Up/Down/Left/Right Select Ctrl+C Copy Ctrl+V Paste Ctrl+Z Undo Shift+Ctrl+Z Redo Ctrl+B Bias keyframes Shift+Ctrl+Up/Down Quick-bias by +/- 0.1 Ctrl+Up/Down Quick-bias by +/- 1 Ctrl+PgUp/PgDn Quick-bias by +/- 10 Shift+Ctrl+PgUp/PgDn Quick-bias by +/- 100 Bugs and feed-back ------------------ Please report bugs or other feed-back to the GNU Rocket mailing list: rocket-users@lists.sourceforge.net Patches or technical questions can be sent to the developer-list: rocket-developers@lists.sourceforge.net