Hi all,

I'm fairly new to this so please forgive me if I don't make much sense!

I'm trying to figure out how you can stream performance data from any game engine and receive it in pure data. After watching tutorial videos about Reactivision on youtube I'm guessing one way to do it would be sending the data in form of lists that can be unpacked in Pd.....

but a) how do you send txt files that continually update themselves from a game engine and how do you create a patch in Pd that will acknowledge anything sent from a game engine as an input?

If there are tutorials on this could anyone please point me in the right direction? Just really struggling to find anything on this area....

Thanks in advance guys!

You should look into libpd : http://gitorious.org/pdlib

It's made to embed pd in other applications, for instance a video game. This way you can design and prototype all your engine with pd and communicate with the other app through the classic way pd deals with messages ([send] and [receive]).

There's a wiki with examples and a forum http://noisepages.com/groups/pd-everywhere/forum/

Have fun !

Might be worth emailing Leonard J. Paul. He hacked the HL2 engine to output OSC and parsed it in Pure Data. See here