Using [Queue]

vvvv beta question
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Hi folks!
Im trying to get some sort of trail of a moving object. (either its a 3d object or a video texture)

The logical way for me is using Queue Transform (or Queue Texture according to the situation).But It makes a Queue of the inmediate frames.

Is there a way to make it look for other frames than the inmediate?

I guess I could make a really long quede and then getSlice, but when its workng with textures it gets reaaally slow.

Any idea?

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hey parabola,

i am having the same problem so i press my thumb somebody can help,
also using your method with higer framecount and getslice.

cheers

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it sounds to me like you’d simply have to activate the Insert of the Queue not every frame but only at a regular interval. or am i missing something?

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Hey joreg, thats an aproach I’ve not think of. But, imagine that you want 3 textures with 1 sec. delay each, runing continuosly. you should store 180 (on a 60fps basis) frames and then getslice just the ones you want. Right?
I was just wondering if there was a way of storing just each 60th frame, avoiding storing a large amount of textures.

Anyway, It seems there is no that much of a performance drop.

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This is what I’ve come to. (11.1 kB)

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if you want to have a continuous delay of course you have to store all the intermediate frames.

yes, that is what i described above. but in that case you don’t have a continuous delay anymore.

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Many ways to do what Joreg said, here are 2 examples, 1 counting vvvvv frames (you need a steady mainloop for that) and the other one is simply banging the queue with an LFO set to a certain time interval. This will save you some performance, beacuse you are not filling up the queue all the time.

And perhaps Tonfilm’s https://vvvv.org/documentation/tonfilm-patches#motion-blur is wjhat you are looking for.

myVideoDelayTestCase2.v4p (14.7 kB)