Hello everyone!

How to actually use [multimodel] in Gem?
I managed to load some models but only one is displayed. How can I choose which of the models stored in [multimodel] should be rendered?

I'm still quite new to PD and especially Gem and I didn't find any examples or information on this topic.. The help patch doesn't show how to do it.

Thank you!
mbbmbbmm

@mbbmbbmm
For more help you need to look at the help file for [model]....... as it says in this [multimodel] help file.

To have more than one model you will need a [multimodel] for each one (or a [model] for each).
A [gemhead] for each as well as [gemhead] renders the object.
You will see in [gemhead] help that a number argument can be given which will determine the rendering order of each one.
That lets you determine which model will be on top.
You might like this...... https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/12033/multimedia-programming-with-pure-data
It is a good and free book for working with GEM in Pd.
David.

Thanks for the explanation! I think you've slightly misunderstood my question but you put me on the right track: I figured it out by looking at [pix_multiimage] which is also linked in the help file. The workflow is very similar in that the second inlet of both can take a number as index to chose the "submodel"/"subimage"

The [pix_multitexture] help mentions that input and also shows it in the example while weirdly the [multimodel] help does not... (and [model] doesn't have that inlet anyway)

I thought that was among the stuff I had tried before but apparently not

Thank you again for the link to the book, looks very interesting