fdiv.net » Xcode Template for Custom Quartz Composer Patches

Create a new Xcode project with this template Okay, so, now that the Game Research and Immersive Design Lab’s infamous first-responder project is finished, I’m getting back to work on Quartz Composer hackery.

Frustrated with the tedium of going through all the Xcode project files in a text editor and manually replacing all of the identifiers and filenames when creating a new Quartz Composer Patch, I decided to finally figure out how to create a new Xcode template. It’s pretty straightforward, actually, given Karsten Kusche’s instructions.

I started with QCJP’s Custom Patch code, made it a little more generic, and substituted macros for all the specific names.

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Download the installer.

To make a Quartz Composer Patch, now all you need to do is:

Create a new Xcode project with this template
Give the project a name
Build the project
Move the .plugin file into /Library/Graphics/Patches/
Launch Quartz Composer

And, of course, modify the code, if you want to do something other than draw a triangle.

Holy Crap! :) Nice job

Really nice work. All I need to do now is learn c/c++/objective-c!!

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Thanks for this. I’ve got one patch written but wasn’t looking forward to duplicating and fiddling to create another.

Hi, I wrote SocketReaderPatch that reads strings from TCP Socket, thanks to your work. http://blog.deadbeaf.org/socketreaderpatch/
It was so easy to make a custom patch, thanks for your great work !

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