Hello..
I hope someone can help me, i have to build a "postprocessor" capable of producing something near to a credible audio output of an impact event, i am using Impact Finite Element Program to simulate the event, honestly, i don't know where to start to send/translate the output in order to have PD able to handle it.
I don't want the solution, just want to know what i have to learn, because i know that there's a way of doing it...i feel a lack of knowledge , and i need somenone to tell me where to find resources to learn how to do it on my own.
Sorry for broken english.

Yop,

IMHO, schematically, I'd say that you could want to record a time series of pressure calculated at a given node of your model, that could be seen as putting a tiny omnidirectional microphone at this node.
I don't know if you can tell to your software to compute such quantities and output them, as the documentation only mentions ".res" and ".msh" files. I don't have one, but what I understood from the manual is that every time step a kind of array is added to the ".res" file, giving values for nodes. I guess you'll have to select values computed for the node of interest, maybe some of it's neighbours, and find a formula to compute a sound pressure vector similar to an audio signal.

Nau