Hello, I am pleased to release my second Add-on publicly. This Add-on allows you to bind properties to OSC events in real-time in the viewport.
Update 22 oct 2015: The new version 0.14 is now as easy to install as a normal Blender Add-on. Just grab the zip file which contains everything.
Read my page for all the informations: http://www.jpfep.net/pages/addosc
Update 28 jan 2020 : I am working on a new project for Blender 2.8 with OSC support here:
Great that you made an OSC version as well! Iâm waiting for the âeasierâ versions of both plugins (and some time where I can integrate it into my workflow!), but Iâm really excited about this.
Thank you so much for sharing this addon!
I have downloaded the âpython-osc-1.5â source archive, unpacked it and copied from it the âpythonoscâ folder into my Blender USER configuration directory under âscriptsâ -> âmodulesâ
so the full path in my case on OS X is â/Users/username/Library/Application Support/Blender/2.76/scripts/modules/pythonoscâ
your addon placed in â/Users/username/Library/Application Support/Blender/2.76/scripts/addons/AddOSC.pyâ
Iâm happy to say that the addon works for me without the need for the full python install described in your web page 
Hi, I am going to release the new version (easy to install) very soon now. I wanted initially to bundle the BGE framework with the next release but I will do another release for that.
Anyway you can do right now like iondev12, you should be able to download and copy by yourself the directory âpythonoscâ in whatever place listed by âimport os ; os.sys.pathâ (in the Blender python console), the add-on should find the module and work as expected.
Hello, the new easy to install version is ready for general consumption. 
The module python-osc is now bundled with the Add-on. Just grab the zip file and do âinstall from fileâ in Blender. Thatâs all.
Hi there,
is there a module to control the BG camera thru your add-on, i want build a realtime previz system with a Kincet2 and based on the NextStagePro software which can stream the camera position in realtime and i want to drive the BG camera in sync with a loaded film set. Possible?
Thx,
Mark
Yes, it should be fairly possible with the new BGE module I was working on. I have been kept busy by other things, but itâs mostly finished and just need some testing. I will try to release it in the next days (it will be bundled with the addon). In the meanwhile, do you know how are sent the X,Y,Z coordinates ? I mean are they bundled as a whole like â/camera x y zâ or are they sent as separate values like â/cameraX xâ â/cameraY yâ and â/cameraZ zâ ? Do you know if there is some documentation about this ? And btw, will you need too to get the angle values ?
I have sent him an email asking about the data format and what I intend to do, stream the data live into Blender and sync the viewport camera, i actually dont need the Blender game engine just a model with baked texture, this is extremely fast as nothing needs to render just move the camera around. The only thing he mentioned is that the Kinect only streams 30fps per second so if i shhot in 24p i need a way to scale the data by 0.8 to run in 24 instead of 30fps, is there a way to do that per python? If i record the data and import into Blender this is not a problem Blender will scale the data (Collada File) automatically to 24p but streaming is always in 30fps.
If you want to receive the stream in real time in the viewport to move the camera, you donât need the BGE module and the Add-on is the way to go. The Add-on can deal with a refresh rate as low as 1ms. Thatâs 1000FPS but I doubt the display can follow. For indication at 30FPS, a frame lasts 33ms or so, and a refresh rate of 10ms would do fine if you want to capture the stream. But the major problem is that the Add-on cannot cope yet with several values sent at once for an OSC message. It seems that the Next Stage Pro just does that. Their FAQ says : âEach tracked frame is sent as a single string containing the Kinect TimeStamp, the Kinectâs Position, itâs Rotation in quaternion values followed by the rotation in euler values.â So you would need for now to use an intermediate software to break the flux in several messages, then send them in Blender.
Yes, i got the same answer from him about the data format, is there a solution to that problem, maybe over Unity with UniOSC?
Thx,
Mark
Hi, JPfeP
First thank you for the add-on! Itâs so easy to listen osc message with it in blender.
Iâm working on a project with a visual artist who want to make some simple shapes to move and deform based on the osc messages from an Emotiv Epoc. I would like to know if I can listen osc message in the BGE and how I can do this. Can you help me?
Thanks in advance
Hi, Akuattro. It seems that there is an OSC application for the Emotiv Epoc: http://emotiv.com/product/mind-your-oscs/
So, theoretically it should be possible to link them. However if this application send the various data packed at once to the same OSC address then AddOSC wonât be able in its current form to dispatch them to several Blender keys.
It is something annoying that I wish to resolve. The BGE OSC support suffers from this too. It is a little bit why I havenât released it yet, as it supports only simple message too (one OSC message to one single BGE property) plus the fact that I had a very demanding freelance job. Now this job is over and itâs propbably time to get back to theses personal projects.
Hi,
At least I have found the time to finish the OSC module for the BGE. Please see this page, there is even a .blend file to test it with your smartphone:
http://www.jpfep.net/pages/addosc-bge/
It seems to work as expected here but it is a first release. The great news is that it can work with complex messages like lists of coordinates. I am going to see now how to do the same with the normal Add-on in the Blender UI to address the handling of existing devices, as some of you asked.
Just grab the zip on github as usual.
I am testing it for few days for Blender normal environment (not BGE), so far it works great and I could easily send message in and out, few things though:
Hi, it is possible to bypass the Keying Set mechanism to import your own properties using a script of your own. I have to write some documentation to explain that. I will investigate the issue you report for the next release. The multiple values support has been already coded a few weeks ago. I need some time to finish it. I am currently in âholidaysâ but I intend to work on it on my free time. Another news is that before leaving for the south of France I made a smartphone application, well a working prototype, to use AddOSC remotely.
Hi, back to Paris very briefly.
There is a new version on github fixing the problem for the bones (and for some other properties with a long path).
Another news is the preliminary support for list messages. It works only in receiving mode right now. There is a new parameter âIndexâ for each prop, that you can see in monitor mode, to play with.
If a message â/blender 1 2 3â is received, the index allows you to pick one of the 3 numbers (0 is the first). Since you can have the same address for several properties, you can then route the 3 numbers to the 3 properties of your choice.
Note: Right now if a an index is >0 there will be no sending from Blender to avoid absurdities. But it shouldnât be a problem for now as most of the time list messages are received in situations like using Kinect and FaceOSC. However I intend to support sending as well in the near future.
I hadnât time to fix a long standing issue with updates of the tool panel happening only when you move the mouse. Will try to address that next week, and may be it will be the occasion to refactor the GUI a little bit, with more flexibility.
Meanwhile (I am off another week), I will try to write the documentation of the API so that you can write scripts for using the addon without having to import a Keying Set, and therefore allowing sharable âdriversâ for special OSC devices and various other duties.
@JPfeP, hi. I´m working on Blender on a PC. I installed your addon, runs accordingly to the video. I installed TouchOSC app from google play (bought it) on my android. So I launch blender, on the AddOSC Settings > Listen on: (198.168.2.1) which is my local ip. I also add a simple X translate (position) to be used as Imported Key Set. All fine until now.
I installed OSCBridge on my computer, so it will send the port signal (in or out) to the OSC device (my android phone).
But nothing works. I can´t send OSC commands to Blender (x64 windows 7) from my phone.
What other step am I missing?
Thanks.
@sirdavid32: in AddOSC the input IP is the one of the interface you listen on. If 192.168.2.1 is the IP of the ethernet card and you get the data from a wireless device, it wonât work. You have to discover the IP bound to the WiFi card, may be in the configuration panels of Windows. In the meanwhile you can use 0.0.0.0 as the input IP, it will listen on all the interfaces. It is a little less safe, but unless you have a NAT route set in your internet box for the input port, it shouldnât be a problem. Please tell me if youâre making progress. You shouldnât need extra software, is OSCBridge intended for a special purpose in your case ?
To all, I seize the opportunity to announce v0.16 that is already available on Github since a few days. It solves the refresh problem of the monitoring feature, and as well the one with the index (when >0) preventing the monitored value to be displayed.
Thanks for the reply @JPfeP, This is what I´m doing: (From your post I understand I need to know what the wireless IP on my cellphone is, so I go to cmyip.com but this reveals the IP of my internet provider to me - not the phone wireless IP). OSC bridge uses the PC network and routes to wifi over to TouchOSC (app) to my phone. So I thought I needed to install that).
Your video example is on MAC, so I´m running this on PC.
Step 1: AddOSC Settings > OSC Settings > Listen on (ip.number.of.wifi.phone?) ; destinantion adress > (ip.number.of.pc?)
Input port: 9001 output port : 9002. START.
Step 2: Drive some parameters via listen commandsâŚ
Help me out on this one please.
Also, I don´t know how do I install this for blender:
Thanks.
