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1. Sending OSC

   Sorry to bring this up again, but can you provide an example for the sendosc node? Will the "arguments" become OSC messages? I know you said it's finicky and experimental but it would be INCREDIBLY G…

   wurmston From the old forum

   1 reply

   26 Feb 2015 by Frederik

2. Data Duplication

   I am experiencing a very weird issue. I am relatively new to Nodebox 3, but I am have got a pretty good grip I think. When grouping nodes together to form a network, the data is being duplicated many…

   rory From the old forum

   3 replies

   25 Feb 2015 by Frederik

3. Nodebox 3.0.42 no longer exports movies

   I am running NodeBox on Mac Yosemite. Just upgraded to 3.0.42. Everything seemed fine until I tried exporting a movie (mp4). The export looked OK and ended without any error messages, but no file was…

   john From the old forum

   5 replies

   18 Feb 2015 by john

4. Extract Column Headers from a CSV file?

   I am visualizing CSV files. I can slice and dice the data but would also like to display and manipulate the column headers. For some projects I need to do generic lookups without having to hand-code…

   john From the old forum

   6 replies

   17 Feb 2015 by Frederik

5. Python code for built-in nodes

   I'm getting started writing my own nodes, and it would be super helpful to look at / edit / build upon the built-in nodes. Where are they stored? Thanks, Will Urmston BFA Graphic Design '16 Rhode Isl…

   wurmston From the old forum

   1 reply

   17 Feb 2015 by Frederik

6. Property Nodes?

   This is either a noob question or a feature request... I find myself creating lots of colorized rectangles with carefully calculated properties (height, width, position, fill color, etc.) that change…

   john From the old forum

   3 replies

   14 Feb 2015 by Stefan

7. Animating Spawning Points from a center point in Nodebox3

   I'm stuck trying to do something that I would have imagined to be easy. It's quite possible that I've over complicated things for myself. I feel like I need something like a for loop to do this but I…

   kurtzwrk From the old forum

   10 replies

   5 Feb 2015 by kurtzwrk

8. Errors on startup after update

   as soon as I try to do anything: java.lang.NullPointerException at nodebox.handle.FourPointHandle.mousePressed(Unknown Source) at nodebox.client.Viewer.mousePressed(Unknown Source) at java.awt.AWTEve…

   Rodolfo Oliveira From the old forum

   4 replies

   1 Feb 2015 by Frederik

9. Mac distribution requires an older version of Java

   I had been using Nodebox 3 but since I updated my java version the program won't run. Are there any updates coming? Thanks!

   hermes_2507 From the old forum

   15 replies

   28 Jan 2015 by Maxim

10. OSX Lion

    Hi guys, I have looked for a while but didn't find anything; is there an executable for OSX Lion? Would be a shame if not. Thanks for any help, Max

    flodereisen From the old forum

    3 replies

    27 Jan 2015 by Frederik

11. Centroid Node Accuracy

    Hi there! I just noticed that for unknown reason the Centroid nodes aren't really accurate, I mean, the center point of the element is always offset and sometimes is very noticeable (images attached)…

    Alejandro León From the old forum

    3 replies

    20 Jan 2015 by Frederik

12. OSC support in nodebox 3

    Hi there, I was wondering wether it is possible to have OSC in nodebox 3, i've found some posts about support in nb2, but that's about it… Otherwise if not; is it possible to deal with this by import…

    steyaert.pieter From the old forum

    2 replies

    19 Jan 2015 by steyaert.pieter

13. Appmap example / Metal Words

    Hi, playing around with Nodebox for a few days and i keep running into an error I can't understand: If I increase the number of items to be arranged in the outer circle in either the Metallica exampl…

    sebastianahrens From the old forum

    1 reply

    18 Jan 2015 by lievenmenschaert

14. Data connection / linking in a circle

    Hi there, I’m a bloody newbie so please forgive me for any silly questions, but after several hours I’m too desperat to keep trying on my own: I’m trying to set up a circle shape which links connecti…

    ravena From the old forum

    14 replies

    24 Dec 2014 by ravena

15. Image Import for NB3

    Hello : Recently discovered NodeBox and finding it very useful. I work in video compositing / motion graphics, highly interested to learn if importing images remains a planned feature? A thread (link…

    Nathan Stueve From the old forum

    6 replies

    27 Nov 2014 by Rodolfo

16. Bug generated when I choose 'Check for Updates'

    Hello, Thank you for making such a wonderful tool for expressive visual programming. I'm not really sure what's going on but I had to manually download the latest version and this error message still…

    Ala' From the old forum

    3 replies

    21 Nov 2014 by Frederik

17. Hacking nodebox on Windows with Eclipse Luna

    Hello, I am interested in hacking nodebox 3. This means that I intend to write code in Java to give nodebox enhanced functionality. I plan to do this using the Eclipse IDE (version LUNA). Can I have…

    craigugoretz5 From the old forum

    2 replies

    19 Nov 2014 by craigugoretz5

18. "Delete" node causes a crash. Ubuntu 64-bit

    I have had Nodebox crash on me repeatedly when trying to follow the "animation" tutorial. It always happens when I create a "delete" node (where the tutorial indicates "In order to remove the parts w…

    Kevin From the old forum

    1 reply

    29 Oct 2014 by Frederik

19. Huge CSV

    Hi, I'm working on a project that has a huge CSV file (1.3 Go), and I'd love to use NodeBox, but I can't seem to make it work. I already augmented the memory in Info.plist <string-Xms512m -Xmx4096m -…

    Raymond Lanctot From the old forum

    No replies yet

    28 Oct 2014

20. Getting the color of a shape

    Hello! I love nodebox! As far as I can tell, it's impossible to get the color of a given shape. I need to import an SVG and manipulate it. Am I missing something? Thanks, Will Urmston BFA Graphic Des…

    wurmston From the old forum

    1 reply

    16 Oct 2014 by Frederik

21. Displaying JSON

    Hi, I'm trying to get a JSON url and display the tweets contained in it ( ideally animated) . I can sort of do it, but I want to sort of create a "group" of username, tweet, date etc and then rotate…

    Tom Smith From the old forum

    3 replies

    11 Oct 2014 by lucasnijs

22. Image Quality

    My vectors in Nodebox are pristine, but whenever I export the file, I end up losing image quality. Any reason for this?

    madie From the old forum

    3 replies

    23 Sept 2014 by madie

23. Image capture questions

    Hi all, I am an absolute beginner in Python but I've been reading about pygame and such libraries, and I've dared trying to implement it as a node with no success... so I was wondering if anyone, wit…

    Rodolfo Oliveira From the old forum

    2 replies

    19 Sept 2014 by Rodolfo

24. combining pie chart with text label

    I'm trying to create pie chart that takes values from two columns in a CSV (Name, Percentage), and have the pie generated and the label rotated the degree length to match up with the pie wedge. I hav…

    chris From the old forum

    4 replies

    8 Sept 2014 by chris

25. connect the dots

    I'm working on a number of connect the dots and am trying to 'burn' in the point numbers so I wouldn't have to manually add them later. Any thoughts?

    chris From the old forum

    5 replies

    6 Sept 2014 by chris

26. Cannot Resize Canvas

    I downloaded NB 3.0.39 for Mac and am having two related problems. When I would create an image in previous versions and export to PDF, the PDF image was cropped to the exact outer boundary of my ima…

    Charles McLane From the old forum

    5 replies

    2 Sept 2014 by Charles

27. Scale Does Not Scale Stroke (Border Width) of Rect

    In NB3 I have created a 400 x 400 rectangle with a 20 pixel stroke border. I use the Scale node to scale height and width by 50 %. The rectangle shrinks to 200 x 200 but the stroke appears to remain…

    Charles McLane From the old forum

    2 replies

    1 Sept 2014 by Charles

28. linking data in an ellipse shape

    Hi, I have data containing a number of concepts and the paper (represented by a number) they appear within. For example: transparency, 15 transparency, 3 data, 15 data, 12 I am trying to visualise th…

    Judie From the old forum

    5 replies

    14 Aug 2014 by lucasnijs

29. Creating a canvas Node

    Is it possible to create a Node that uses canvasHeight & canvasWidth? I'm trying to create a background node. thanks

    MikeMike From the old forum

    1 reply

    23 Jul 2014 by Frederik

30. How to automatically generate a png export from a .ndbx file in a command line (with a script)?

    Hello, I made a nodebox 3 file (.ndbx) that generates a dashboard of a production status. It is based on csv files that change every day. For the moment, I have to open each day the nodebox file manu…

    Gilbert Perrin From the old forum

    2 replies

    30 Jun 2014 by Frederik