Programming design: Richard Porcher, sound design: once11

Komandos Project - Real-time Audio Performance Environment
Navigate architecture

Komandos explores the application of computer game technologies to navigate Architecture in digital environments.

The aim is to investigate implications of experience through digital space in relation to generative and informative parameters of design, as to movement, transformation and sound events. All these are strategies that enable the participant to shape a space in real-time. Users can jam live using the dynamics of the game, playing as an audio instrument.

Komandos uses ‘.vmo’ file format (Virtools application) for real-time 3D interaction.

Komandos has:
2 view cam (around cam and panoramic cam)
1 Quake cam

To navigate:
keyboard (actions)
mouse (zoom)
View cameras
(around cam and panoramic cam)

keyboard (actions)
mouse and joystick (directions and zoom)
Quake cam

Interaction effects:
light on/off
light color
diffuse color
sinusoidal movement
rotational movement
3d revelators


Instructions:
1. Install Virtools Web Player at: http://www.virtools.com/downloads/playerie2.1.asp
2. Wait for the download of the application.
3. To start: press the ‘space bar’. Use the ‘space bar’ also to change cameras.
4. To interact: use ‘S’, ‘L’, ‘R’ on the keyboard and the numbers 1 to 9 on the numeric keyboard.
5. To zoom always use the mouse (left click).
6. Use the mouse to navigate the Quake cam (you can also use a joystick)...