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Tutorials This is where you're supposed to get started. The tutorials build on top of each other, so a linear execution of the tutorials is recommended: Video Tutorials Basic Tutorials Introduction Hello World Herr Inspektor Spread them Data I IOBoxes Spread them Data II User Tutorials Advanced Tutorials: Geometry Morphing Pixelshader for Newbies How To Project On 3D Geometry

Manual After you have gone through the tutorials listed on the left side you should find additional, more detailed information in the following manual sections: Installation TroubleShooting How to find Help The User Interface Spreads Subpatches Modules GDI Rendering DX9 Rendering EX9 Rendering of Effects and Shaders and Geometry TTY Rendering the console Audio Midi Video XML Boygrouping Client/Server render cluster FreeFrame Video Plugins and Tracker Timelining with TimelinerSA Glossary

Helpful Topics & FAQs

The recommended way of asking questions is in the forums but our users occasionally move the best questions and answers here. Note that these pages are preliminary. Most of the material will finally go to separate howtos or chapters of the manual.

Usage User Interface FAQ Commandline Parameters Installing and Deploying FAQ HowTo Use IRC Patching HowTo Optimize Performance Patching FAQ FUN - Frequently Used Nodes Custom GUI Method Collection Converting from Textual Programming Creating Feedback Loops How to use the Debug Mode Mathematical Backgrounds Graphics Audio/Video FAQ MultiScreen FAQ Codecs FAQ DirectX Rendering FAQ Typography FAQ How to prepare Textures HowTo prepare X Files Everything about COLLADA in vvvv Tricks for handling Rotation Angles in 2D Animations Detailed Discussion about Drawing Modes, DepthBuffer & Tranparency Links Electronics Links Software Tool Links Video and Optics Links Forums Ask Questions and Report Bugs in the vvvvorum

Hardware & HowTo connect things System Recommendations => to a specific port/bus DMX .... node08.workshop.DMX .... DMX.Hardware .... DMX.Artnet .... DMX advanced MIDI RS232 I2C? EIB-KNX? Gameport => to a specific hardware Arduino 01 - 02 - 03 - 04 - 05 Lemur - a tangible multitouch interface => to a specific software EyesWeb Pure Data MAX/MSP Processing? Flash Ableton Live => to a specific protocol OSC UDP? TCP? => to whatever Relais Lamps Motors Sensors anything else to vvvv Things to Make and Do how to make a FTIR multitouch surface Developers AddonPacks Writing FreeFrame/Video plugins Writing VVVV plugin nodes Diplomas

Reference Pages

Everything you know is wrong. Read the fine print.

Usage Pins and Data Types Keyboard Shortcuts Included Files Graphics Supported Shader Semantics

Node Reference The vvvv Node Reference Conventions HelpPatch Node and Pin Naming CodingStyle for C#,Delphi,etc

Contributions

If you can contribute to any part of the vvvviki you are very welcome. To start a new page or edit an existing article, see How to use the vvvviki page. All volunteers integrating more text, images and links to these pages would be welcome.

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Translations

Some User have contributed translations to some of the more important pages. See

DE - eine Einführung in die vvvv Tools tutorials by tf
JP - vvvv toolkit by skipform
KR - vvvv (external site)
FR - vvvv un outil à finalité multiple introduction by sanch

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