Warrior of the Light

2nd November 2002 13:48 UTC

new pack: iNFiNiTY 1.1 beta version
ANY suggestions before I publish it?

No is an answer too... ;)

Who will be the first to respond?

Yaz aka Kaze

2nd November 2002 18:15 UTC

Not bad...
I like it, most of them are nice and comlplete, but some of them needs more work, ie: add a alpha blend to intro preset to hide that what DM creates in background. Also some of them could be general more smmoth (personaly I dont like sharp shapes). Finaly... keep experimenting with the code, this is the only way (I think) to make your prests unique and top notch.

Greetz and good luck :)

PS. Sorry for my english... :)

Jaheckelsafar

3rd November 2002 05:18 UTC

Hey, you've really improved. :) I liked angel of darkness the best, but shifted scope and relax were good too. Some I'd seen posted here before, but that's cool. A little suggestion though. If you're going to release this to the public, don't include presets from previous packs unless they're substantially changed.

Keep it up man, you're starting to take off.

Warrior of the Light

3rd November 2002 15:56 UTC

First: thanks for all the replies

Yaz: you don't have to aplologize for your English; at forums, we're used to have that... And BTW, your's isn't that bad - I'm Dutch, so if I can read it, so can most of the others ;):D
And for Alpha blending: I haven't really begun on that, learning coding bit by bit. Will try it some day.

Jaheckelsafar: The reason for having older presets in my pack, is because it is my 1.1'st pack. Not my first or second, my 1.1'st. A bit of the old pack (which by the way was never published anywhere else than here) and some new ones. i intend on publishing this one, but got a bit confused when i noticed that i have to make a installer for it...

Kagnar

6th November 2002 22:23 UTC

Can't
I couldn't get them to work

Kagnar

6th November 2002 22:28 UTC

Can't
It ends up being saved in a compressed folder and there isn't anything inside it!

Warrior of the Light

6th November 2002 22:34 UTC

All i can think of is that the ,-c gives errors.

earlier i used the original ;-c and that gave even more errors.

try this one and tell me if it works:

uNDefineD

13th November 2002 11:03 UTC

Not bad, not bad at all. I'm working on the detailed review at the minute, so I'll just say that it'a well made pack and quite innovative in places.

However: the intro preset looks susiciously like my Meant To Be from NDD2. :weird:

Warrior of the Light

13th November 2002 20:32 UTC

Originally posted by uNDefineD
However: the intro preset looks susiciously like my Meant To Be from NDD2. :weird:

uNDefineD

17th November 2002 04:28 UTC

Okay, Ratta, if you want to be called that. :) Here's my detailed review:

intro: This is nice, but the same problem that plagued my Meant To Be preset is also prevalent in here: it's just too damn static. 2.5/5
Dreamz: Innovative use of the colour clip. A bit cliched, but nice overall. 2.5/5
Kiss: Now THIS is original! Great work. I can't for the life of me figure out how the hell you did that. 3.5/5
Moving twisting and spiralling scope: A cool mix of n00b and beyond with the simple MPs and the complex movement. Interesting is all I can say. 2.5/5
New moving twisting and spiralling scope: This is a good improvement on the original. Perhaps a bit too "staccato" (not a very good way of saying it, is it?). 2.5/5
Optical - Squashed Fly: Very good coding, and an awesome output! Still, some additional dynamics wouldn't have hurt. 3/5
Optical Ring: Again, this preset just doesn't do enough. It is okay though. 2/5
Optical Scope: Interesting use of colours, and the DM was a fine example of coding. Dynamics are slightly better. 3/5
Radioactive B: I think you're cabaple of better than this. 1.5/5
Relax: Very relaxing indeed. Sometimes the preset SSCs are just better. Great job with this! 3.5/5
Shifted Scope: The "layered" colours give a great effect, even if the movement is overused. 3/5
Soft Yellow: Quite true, the easier is sometimes the better, as this shows. I would've put the mirror at the top, but that's just me. 3/5
Burning scope and snow: That's quite a contrast, but it makes for a good preset. The MP flashes in the centre of the screen are also a nice touch. 2.5/5
In my mind: The dynamics in this one are definitely better. The feedback around the main renders are especially well made. 3.5/5
Classic non-rect DM: An extremely nice pattern! Very relaxing, and a great example of code. 4/5
Angel Of Darkness: This is a great preset. I'm not sure what the Convolution Filter was doing that a blur couldn't, but anyway. Great use of colour again. 4/5
Optical - Landscape: Fairly plain, but a nice looking preset nonetheless. BTW, you can use pi=acos(-1) instead of 3.14159... 3/5

The verdict: A very nice pack in places. Some things to remember: use dynamics a lot more. Nothing is more boring than a static preset. And keep coding! You had some very nice pieces of code in here, so keep at it! Overall, a pretty good pack.

Aesthetics: :) :) :) :( :(
Originality: :) :) :) :( :( 1/2
Overall: :) :) :) :( :( 1/2

Warrior of the Light

17th November 2002 17:04 UTC

thanks a lot for the detailed review. It really helps me what to do or don't

And for rhe ratta/rattaplan/;-c thing... I use ;-c in my presets, Rattaplan is basically an old chatname i used, but i changed it into ;-c because it was already used in a lot of chatboxes, but when i got on this forum, for the very first time ;-c was already in use, so i added the rattaplan part... And since Ratta is short for Rattaplan, i don't really care what to be called. Most people call me Ratta/Rattaplan already around here, so i accept both...

Note that some of the presets are really old (relax is more than a year old (! :eek: !) ) my next pack (don't ask me when it'll be finished, haven't exactly started) will be a lot more shiny and dynamic in the style of the newest ones.

nobady

19th November 2002 18:43 UTC

I like them only some of them are a bit fidget.
Good luck for the next one
:igor:

dirkdeftly

19th November 2002 23:09 UTC

Ratta, why don't you just not use that ;-c or anything in the first place?

Intro: 2.5 stars
Not very dynamic, and the background shape is kind of boring.

Dreams: 4 stars
Nice, I think it could be made better somehow; maybe not so much zoom on the beat?

Kiss: 2.5 stars
Again, fairly non-dynamic, and very repetitive

Spiraling scope: 2.5 stars
This one could be made a lot better; more dynamics, less back-and-forth movement, and the scope needs more detail

Spiraling scope 2: 2.5 stars
Ditto...

Squashed fly: 3 stars
I really don't like those fast-changing, non-linear warping movements, but you did a fairly good job with this one. Again, it could be made a lot better.

Optical ring: 3.5 stars
It's good, but it gets really repetitive really fast.

Optical scope: 2 stars
I can't see a damn thing... :weird:

Radioactive B: 3.5 stars
Nice idea, but it needs to be more dynamic

Relax: 1.5 stars
I REALLY hate it when people use the example scopes: it's unoriginal, boring, and extremely distracting to the rest of the AVS.

Shifted scope: 2.5 stars
That bump really doesn't do much for the vis, and it slows things waaay down. Other than that, it's not really unique or original....

Soft yellow: 3.5 stars
Same as Radioactive B

Burning scope...: 2 stars
Same as Relax

Classic...: 2.5 stars
You could make that DM look a whole lot better

Angel of darkness: 3.5 stars
Good, but it could be made better

Optical landscape: 2.5 stars
Again, those fast non-linear movements don't really appeal to me.


Aesthetics: 2.5 stars
Technical: 2 stars
Ideas: 3.5 stars
Originality: 3.5 stars
Overall: 3 stars

Warrior of the Light

20th November 2002 09:59 UTC

Originally posted by Atero
Ratta, why don't you just not use that ;-c or anything in the first place?

dirkdeftly

20th November 2002 19:14 UTC

It's not Windows' fault, it's yours. Also, weren't you the one telling me to change to fit the majority?