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Il Buzzo · Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 12:51 am Post subject: DeleD Irrlicht Screen Saver

Hi guys,
I've almost finished my last madness Wink

, an Irrlicht screensaver that loads randomly your DeleD levels and have different camera movements, as well as skyboxes.
I'm refining user options (screen resolution etc...) but to show you what I intend, give a look to this:

Please let me know if you have some ideas to implement prior this release (it's my current screensaver Wink

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Bye and see you soon Wink

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P.S.:
Maybe I'll be in chat tomorrow (I hope so).

Paul-Jan · Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 8:18 pm Post subject:

Hi Il Buzzo,

I kinda new you were working on this one, but a great project it is!

I really like how you got the preview going, that would've been my first request (lots of screensavers don't support it) Very Happy

Things on my wishlist:
- a nice and simple installation process.
- even if some keys might be used to move the camera / toggle options / whatever, it should be really really easy to quit the screensaver. If a screensaver is inconvenient most people are very quick to uninstall it...
- make it a WinAmp plugin, too Wink

<- j/k there

Can't wait to play around with this new toy!

trucker2000 · Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 3:18 am Post subject:

That looks pretty interesting.
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Il Buzzo · Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 9:15 am Post subject:

Hi Guys,
@Paul-jan
Thanks for suggestions.
I've lost lot of time to make it work with full support of Microsoft options, in fact when you'll click settings... it could be configured as standard Microsoft plugins.
For the moment I don't know if camera will be controlled by user (anyway a screensaver is intended to be used during pauses), but rather you'll have it randomly placed over map (at prefixed times) or better it will follow a path.
I'm working on this now.
As for installation it will come as a Setup.exe that will guide you through setup (ssaver goes in windows\system32 and your options will be mantained).
Concerning WinAmp I'm currently downloading SDK... we'll talk of this in chat this evening.
Bye Wink

Il Buzzo · Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 2:26 pm Post subject:

Hi Guys,
Breaking news, I've just introduced audio in my screensaver.... Wink

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It load a casual mp3 or ogg or wav or what else I'll support in future in a dir and then it play casually a song until it's ended. Then it continues.....
I've used audiere.dll to support (it's a great piece of soft Wink

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Well, release is approching .... bye all Wink

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Paul-Jan · Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 8:13 pm Post subject:

Ah, more goodness, great!

Request: please give us an option to turn off the audio as well. I once had a demoscene screensaver (with loud techno music) installed, and left the pc on while I was gone to work. Oh, and I had been playing some games the night before with headphones on so the volume was set to Really Loud (tm). When I came back from work the neighbours weren't exactly happy with the noise that had been coming through their walls for 8 hours straight Very Happy

Il Buzzo · Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 8:28 pm Post subject:

Hi Paul-Jan,
Did it in the afternoon (it happened to me too Wink

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Bye

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Il Buzzo · Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 11:10 pm Post subject:

Hi Guys,
Good news, I've just finished audio implementatio now my screensaver supports:
-mp3
-ogg
-wav
-aiff
-mod
-it
-xm
-s3m
-flac
I hope is enough for audio. I was now thinking of camera movements....
In a first moment I was thinking to implement a standard movement based on level extension with camera pointing at centre of scene (really simple implementation but not good for every scene).
But now I'm thinking to write camera positions and rotations to a file using a little app I'm writing so you can personalize your camera path (I'll write defined paths for DeleD predefined scenes) but it will be more time consuming for user....
So give me an opinion on this option in the pool...
Bye all Wink

trucker2000 · Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 11:28 pm Post subject:

If the camera is going to have a path, it would be nice to have a simple way to make that path for users. This is looking great. Smile

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Paul-Jan · Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 10:06 am Post subject:

Actually, I'd like it best if the program suggested a camera path (randomly generated or whatever) and then enables me to modify it.

This is pretty much advanced functionality for a screensaver Smile

Il Buzzo · Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 10:13 am Post subject:

Well,
I think this will be the best way of doing it Wink

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I'm starting to code Wink

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Paul-Jan · Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 10:20 am Post subject:

Cool

I was wondering, are you planning on opening up the source? I completely understand if you don't (makes sense), but if you get this semi-automated camera stuff up and running I'd definitely be interested in taking a little peak at the underlying code Wink

Il Buzzo · Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 3:15 pm Post subject:

Well,
I don't know if I'll release all source code now but I know I'll release an Irrlicht Screensaver template after this and sure camera movement code (if it works as I'd like Wink

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Anyway if I get requests I'll sure release it as opensource (maybe zip license that is Irrlicht one).
Bye Wink

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Paul-Jan · Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 6:27 pm Post subject:

Ah, all of that would be cool Smile

pfo · Member Joined: 07 Nov 2005 Posts: 11

You should allow people to embed that path in the level via the tag info data. That would make it really easy to create some cool screensavers quickly