alternative

[irmakoz1]

Is there an alternative platform for veda? As I see Atom is not being able to used anymore.

[sertonix]

You can try Pulsar. It is a fork of Atom and has seen a lot of fixes.

[anpin]

hi! has anyone had any success with pulsar? For me veda only loads audio shaders, but for the rest the background never changes. There are some deprecation warnings too.

[confused-Techie]

So @anpin I'm unfamiliar with this repo, and GLSL as a whole. But gave it a shot with the code you posted (partially, I had to exclude the bits cut off on the edge of the tab)

So I used:

precision mediump float;
uniform float time;
uniform vec2 mouse;
uniform vec2 resolution;

void main(void) {
  vec2 position = (gl_FragCoord.xy / resolution.xy) + mouse / 4.0;

  float color = 0.0;

  color += sin(position.x * cos(time / 15.0) * 80.0) + cos(position.y * cos(time / 15.0));
  color += sin(position.y * sin(time / 10.0) * 40.0) + cos(position.x * sin(time / 25.0));
  color += sin(position.x * sin(time / 5.0) * 10.0) + since(position.y * sin(time / 35.0));
  color *= sin(time / 10.0) * 5.0;

  gl_FragColor = vec4(vec3(color, color * 5.0, sin(color + time / 3.0) * 0.75), 1.0);
}

And running veda:toggle I get this:

Which is in fact animated.

The only actually error I see in the console is:

THREE.JSONLoader has been removed.
JSONLoader @ C:\Users\<user>\.pulsar\packages\veda\node_modules\vedajs\node_modules\three\build\three.js:47283
ModelLoader @ C:\Users\<user>\.pulsar\packages\veda\node_modules\vedajs\lib\model-loader.js:30
Veda @ C:\Users\<user>\.pulsar\packages\veda\node_modules\vedajs\lib\veda.js:131
Player @ C:\Users\<user>\.pulsar\packages\veda\lib\player.js:68
App @ C:\Users\<user>\.pulsar\packages\veda\lib\app.js:81
Wrapper @ C:\Users\<user>\.pulsar\packages\veda\lib\wrapper.js:22
_activate @ C:\Users\<user>\.pulsar\packages\veda\lib\index.js:89
(anonymous) @ C:\Users\<user>\.pulsar\packages\veda\lib\index.js:86
Promise.then (async)
activate @ C:\Users\<user>\.pulsar\packages\veda\lib\index.js:86
activateNow @ C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Programs\pulsar\resources\app.asar\src\package.js:242
(anonymous) @ C:\Users\a<user>\AppData\Local\Programs\pulsar\resources\app.asar\src\package.js:1046
simpleDispatch @ VM202 C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Programs\pulsar\resources\app.asar\node_modules\event-kit\dist\emitter.js:64
emit @ VM202 C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Programs\pulsar\resources\app.asar\node_modules\event-kit\dist\emitter.js:257
handleCommandEvent @ C:\Users\a<user>\AppData\Local\Programs\pulsar\resources\app.asar\src\command-registry.js:379
didConfirmSelection @ command-palette-view.js:77
confirmSelection @ VM609 C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Programs\pulsar\resources\app.asar\node_modules\bookmarks\node_modules\atom-select-list\src\select-list-view.js:400
didClickItem @ VM609 C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Programs\pulsar\resources\app.asar\node_modules\bookmarks\node_modules\atom-select-list\src\select-list-view.js:286
onclick @ VM609 C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Programs\pulsar\resources\app.asar\node_modules\bookmarks\node_modules\atom-select-list\src\select-list-view.js:221
didClick @ VM609 C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Programs\pulsar\resources\app.asar\node_modules\bookmarks\node_modules\atom-select-list\src\select-list-view.js:448

This is one Windows 10 22H2 Pulsar 1.103.0

Is the animated aspect what you're expecting to see? Could you try it with just the code I posted above? Or otherwise what OS and Pulsar version

[confused-Techie]

Also thought I should mention, the warnings you are seeing shouldn't effect the functioning of this package, as far as I can tell.

Also I see it showing nix in your path. I want to warn you that the Nix distribution being released is managed by a community member, and not officially maintained, so this may be an issue related to how they've packaged it, rather than with Pulsar itself.

[anpin]

Hi @confused-Techie! The code from my screenshot comes from the veda guide. Indeed the issue is nix related, I'm getting this in the log

[1594662:0320/112725.163250:INFO:CONSOLE(269)] "Error: Command failed with ENOENT: /home/a/.pulsar/packages/veda/node_modules/glslang-validator-prebuilt/bin/glslangValidator /tmp/tmp-1594745-gx8uNcrj6QHZ-.frag
spawn /home/a/.pulsar/packages/veda/node_modules/glslang-validator-prebuilt/bin/glslangValidator ENOENT", source: /home/a/.pulsar/packages/veda/lib/app.js (269)

Which suggests I have to make nix wrapper for the plugin or patch the binary manually. Thank you for your input!

[confused-Techie]

Ahh I see @anpin. Maybe it'd be a good idea to raise an issue with the maintainer of the Nix binary to help them arrive at a solution so this doesn't happen to everyone else that decides to use that version. But glad we could narrow down what's causing the issue

[anpin]

sure this have to be done, but would be quite involved as there are no process for wrapping atom/pulsar extensions at the moment