@ingox it is possible to use curly brackets in the "textwindow" from ofelia, but no idea how to implement that in another external...

@jancsika you made something in this thread: https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/8836/dictionary-object-in-pd-extended/26

@JackOats you also do not need to record the whole screen but you can record several windows...
https://obsproject.com/wiki/OBS-Studio-Quickstart

@JackOats i use https://obsproject.com/ for that...

@ddw_music my mistake. i was not thinking in the fast prototyping way...
maybe was irritated by:

if type(window) ~= "userdata" then;
  window = ofWindow();
end;
;

do you still need that if you have an [of.window] object?

and:

"It turns out the real problem was a mistaken variable-name change in the fragment shader file. Once I corrected that, it went back to normal."

i feel you, that is one of my most common errors...

@60hz that is true, too.

@ddw_music you always need a reference to the main ofelia object, something like:

local a = require("$0-gameOfLife3d");

see ofelia-object-help.pd -> variables.

and do not use M as a reference, because it is the same as ofelia...

It is working. Made with Ofelia, shaders and the Open Frameworks addon ofxVolumetrics: