Hi,

I have a friend who is working on programming a game in C++. I was wondering if it is possible at all to somehow get Pd running inside of a compiled C++ program, essentially functioning as an audio engine. I found the thread about running Pd alongside a C++ app, using its variables (http://puredata.hurleur.com/sujet-249-punoogle), but I am interested in if there is any way to run them in the same app.

The main reason I think this might be possible is that I saw a presentation on the music for the game Spore, which was done using Pd. The audio team may have had to compile a new version of Pd to get it working inside the game engine, but they apparently did get it working.

Does anyone know anything about doing this? Are there any good tutorials for something like this that are lying around?

Thanks so much!

• David

As far as I know, EA did in fact use a customized version of Pd in the game (I think they even called it EAPd). I have no idea how, though.

(im about to post with something that has very little to what you want i think, but i still find it interesting and you might)

Speaking of pd and spore, these articles could be of interest.

this one on "dynamic music" (i think they mean procedural)

and this blog of one of the sound guys from spore where he talks about eapd and the systems they used.

theres some names and links in those that might be of more assistance in your search.

"Cyril Saint Girons, engineer extraordinaire, who ported Miller Puckettes' pd and added a great many custom objects for us to use. "

you should hunt down this guy.

Awesome. Thanks for the help, I'll have to keep chasing this. These articles look really great!

It looks like it's probably going to require more effort than we're willing to put in to get a version of Pd to do this.

We're still hoping to get something running where we have total control over synthesis/dsp/algorithms in the audio engine. Do any of you know if this is possible to do in any of the other popular sound programming languages, like, say, Supercollider?

Thanks again!

i think there is a libscsynth, or you can talk to scsynth with OSC, but the supercollider language is a big part of supercollider usage normally. Supercollider is GPL, which might not be what you want, too.

Vessel might be an option too? http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/~wakefield/lua~/lua~.htm#publications