zamuz

14th December 2002 18:37 UTC

New pack
Hey guys I'm new at this forums... but i need some help with my new AVS pack... I just don't know if I have enough presets... please help me out... you won't be dissapointed :up:
Thanks!

zamuz

14th December 2002 20:04 UTC

Please guys... at least download it... For those who don't know (maybe that includes everybody) i'm the author of pack like "Gonzalo's AVS Again" or "Gonzalo's OverRMXed Pack".... yeah... guess who... I'm Gonzalo. So if you downloaded any of these pack, i guarantee you'll see some cool things here. :)

dirkdeftly

14th December 2002 23:42 UTC

Don't expect people to download it within 2 hrs of upload - especially not on this forum :)

Wow, man, you really know what you're doing - 4 star pack here. They really look like they could be sped up, but otherwise they're (mostly) original, aesthetic and (despite their lack of optimization) fairly fast. Three things though: If your preset needs an APE, include the APE (in the preset and the pack) and credit the author; number your presets and make your own installer; and make more presets - 10's kind of small for a pack.
BTW, how long have you been AVSing?

Good luck, man :) I hope to see more from you.

Nic01

15th December 2002 00:40 UTC

Pretty much what ATero said =P

Great presets... the intro have one of the most realistic clouds that I've seen, and how long have you been AVSing?

Looking forward to more presets from ya =)

nixa

15th December 2002 01:00 UTC

Nice :)
The 3D Cilinder and Brain Whash I really liked and the other presets are cool too but like Atero said you really need to optimise them.

Jaheckelsafar

15th December 2002 09:05 UTC

I think Brain Wash was the best of the bunch. It's a very decent pack and worth the download. GJ.

Xenibalt__

15th December 2002 17:13 UTC

Hei great work man. I really liked Brain Wash and Signs is cool imho. :cool: good job!

zamuz

15th December 2002 20:00 UTC

Thanx!
Thanks a lot you guys, this really means a lot to me... now I know what to do next. I had some more presets ready just in case anyway... I've been AVSing since the beggining of this year, and I've relased 5 packs. Expect some cool aplha blending effects and such. Thanks a lot guys, you really gave me reasons to keep on doing this! Can't remember who said this, but, "Keep this digital art alive!" or something like that... Thanx, you guys rule :D

dirkdeftly

16th December 2002 07:02 UTC

Do you have a deviantART account?

zamuz

16th December 2002 17:08 UTC

No I don't... would be cool, though :up: ......why?

dirkdeftly

16th December 2002 18:06 UTC

Cos then I can download the rest of your packs :)
go to www.deviantart.com and register (free)

zamuz

16th December 2002 20:49 UTC

Don't be so lazy... just search for Gonzalo in the Winamp 2 plugins section... There are all kinds of presets for y'all. Enjoy. What use can I give to a Deviant Art account anyway...?

zamuz

23rd December 2002 18:29 UTC

Hey guys I have some presets for the pack... They're lookin good, but just tell me if I should upload the whole pack again or just the new presets... Ok that's all.

dirkdeftly

23rd December 2002 23:00 UTC

deviantART is a way to get your presets noticed (better than WA imho); same with deskmod. it takes maybe two minutes to sign up, and two minutes to upload anything you damn well please ;)
and the WA search engine isn't working for me, it never has.

and upload something, man; we don't care if you re-upload the whole pack or not :p

zamuz

23rd December 2002 23:57 UTC

Ok thanx man... Here they are, 4 more presets.

zamuz

24th December 2002 00:00 UTC

Hey man I'm just chilean, so wtf does "imho" mean...?

KiD cHaMeLeOn

24th December 2002 00:33 UTC

Wow your right i wasnt dissapointed. lol
They are great nice new pack :up:
Wish i could do it that good:rolleyes:

Jaheckelsafar

24th December 2002 07:10 UTC

Swirly Squares crashed my comp. :( But I liked the star one :up:

imho: In My Humble Opinion

Tuggummi

24th December 2002 12:05 UTC

Aah, great pack GMF, great indeed! Visually appealing and technically good.

The fact that these are the first presets i see from you, impress me even more. Or... wait... i think i have seen your OverRemixed pack (or something like that), but i don't remember much from it and since i have deleted it from my avs folder... :rolleyes:

Anyway, good work and hope to see more of it!

and btw. I know one female avser! Her name is daftcunt and you can find her at http://daftcunt.deviantart.com

btw2. Yeah, maybe you should make a couple more presets, so there would be more eye candy for the viewers :)

zamuz

24th December 2002 17:50 UTC

Thanx a lot guys!:D Swirly Squares also chrashed my Winamp a couple of times, but lately this stopped... Just keep trying :up:
Ok now I get the "imho" thing, thanx there... but now that "btw" thing... between?

KiD cHaMeLeOn

24th December 2002 17:57 UTC

Swirly Squares did it the first time but now its good :D :D

dirkdeftly

24th December 2002 19:06 UTC

btw = by the way :)

The star one is excellent; the fire effect is nice; but the other two aren't up to par with the rest of the pack (especially since one persistently crashes).

zamuz

24th December 2002 19:52 UTC

Thanks there too :up:... I don't know why it crashes... Maybe the Color Map? Anyway... I think that Bumpy Carpet looks quite cool, but I'm not goin to discuss with Atero about me likin my presets or not... hehe. Ok I just need to know why don't you like Bumpy Carpet, cause the other one is out... Maybe I should optimize them? But they turn too slow, and that's exactly what I have to improve... Speed-up tips, anyone?

And thanks there Tuggummi for the info too, I really think that female AVSers could be a great thing...

zamuz

12th January 2003 17:19 UTC

Improved Bumpy Carpet and made a cool fractal... Enjoy.

anubis2003

12th January 2003 17:55 UTC

Include the pictures with the zip next time. I got them out of your previous zip but it would be nicer if I didn't have to.
Bumpy Carpet is alright. The carpet effect is nice, but it should change some or else the preset gets boring quickly. Also, the bubble stays centered on the screen; try making it move some.
Fractalish Colormania - The fractal has been done before, but I like your twist on it. The color effect is real nice.

Keep up the good work zamuz

VisualAgnosia

12th January 2003 19:51 UTC

There are some very lovley crisp presets in there. All I can say is keep on keeping on. I'm a sk8r but I didn't quite get the Space vert one it just looked like starfields to me with a darker patch in the middle.. mabe I was missing an ape(check my avatar)or something???

The brainwash preset blew me away 5 stars 4 that one.. They're my fav type of presets that have some real substance..

PROPS:up:

VizAgnostic:weird:

[edit]my IMG code aint working 4 some reason??[/edit]

Jaak

12th January 2003 20:12 UTC

uuuu...
This is what I like, werrrry GOOD.
3D Cilinder : i love it, bit boring but i didnt say its bad...
Bitform Tunnel : :igor: (i dont feel so good)
Brain Wash : One of my favourits (it just washes the brain)
Cromatized Slumps <= I just love the movemest :eek:
Signs : Bit boring, make it more soundresponsible.
Snowy Abstraction : neat (i feel gold [well its -24 C outside])
Vision : cute on

Allready waiting for asom stuff from U...

zamuz

12th January 2003 20:46 UTC

VisualAgnosia maybe the pictures aren't where they should be... check if hpipe.bmp and squares.bmp are in the AVS folder. Signs is only beat-responsive, I don't know how to make it more sound-responsive cause i'm no good at superscopes and i'm too lazy to learn, and there's no other effect I could think of to get that result. I think that's the thing that most of my preset kind of lack... the sound response. Brain Wash seems to be the most popular preset... That Biform Tunnel thing... I included it cause it was my first DM attempt, but it's kinda lame... that one's out. Thanks everybody for the support.

dirkdeftly

14th January 2003 06:12 UTC

gonzalo, fix the alpha blending on Bumpy Carpet; right now the edges are *really* ugly. and always use specific names for your bitmaps - don't just do 'squares.bmp', instead do 'gnzlovisions-squares.bmp' so as to avoid any cloning :)

VisualAgnosia

14th January 2003 07:00 UTC

naa dont have those bmp's, can you give me some advise on how to use texer. is it able to link a bmp with points on SSC?

anubis2003

14th January 2003 12:33 UTC

He has those bmps included in one of his previous posts, but here they are for you to download.

zamuz

14th January 2003 20:59 UTC

Thanks there Anubis... and Atero yeah it looks ugly but I'm not too good at that... I'll do what I can, and I'll try to add more movement to the bump cause it's really static. The bitmap issue will be fixed when I relase the pack. I have a new version of 3D Cilinder ready, I think it looks a lot cooler... Enjoy.

anubis2003

14th January 2003 21:03 UTC

The surface has an interesting shine to it, but I liked the squares that changed colors a little more as opposed to a bitmap. Still really nice though.

zamuz

20th January 2003 01:53 UTC

Here's the best I could get out of Bumpy Carpet (the bubble moves a little, but it's always circular...) and a new preset that looks really cool but kinda lacks something... Enjoy.

Raz

20th January 2003 02:05 UTC

Nice work, good preset but maybe you could get it to move the lens around a little more. Artsy messy isnt bad, i made something similar a yesterday, i didnt think it was good enough but had potential, i ended up ruining it and not saving it, could use a little something else, like something more going on inside the lines or in the white bit. Anyway the rest of them are great, very nice work.

anubis2003

20th January 2003 05:54 UTC

I like bumpy carpet now, although I still think it would look a bit nicer if the shape of the carpet texture changed. The bump is now a circle, but it barely moves.
Artsy Messy is kinda boring. The color effects are nice, but it looks like I'm seeing the same thing over and over again.

dirkdeftly

20th January 2003 08:53 UTC

Artsy Messy is good, but not as good as your other stuff. Bumpy carpet...I don't know what you're doing here, but somehow I know it's not necessary. I'll try to figure out how to make a round bump-shape movement, if you'd like...

zamuz

20th January 2003 14:53 UTC

That would be really cool!! Cause I'm still learning and, having seen your AVS, I know that you can do amazing stuff... Please help me out. Thanks a lot in advance!! :D

dirkdeftly

21st January 2003 03:30 UTC

This should work...


Since I'm too lazy to update the attachment, replace the Beat section of the last dynamov with this:
rix=rand(100)/50000-0.001;
riy=rand(100)/50000-0.001;

anubis2003

21st January 2003 03:34 UTC

Nice Atero, the bump moves! Next improvement I think would be to let the camera's angle with the surface decrease a little more.

zamuz

21st January 2003 03:52 UTC

:eek: WOW!! That's exactly what I was looking for! Thanks a lot for that Atero, really :up: :D

And Anubis, I didn't quite get what you're saying... Sorry but sometimes I don't understand cause I'm not too used to English yet...
(btw i never thought this thread would even get close to 2 pages...)

dirkdeftly

21st January 2003 03:54 UTC

Not only does it move, it smooths out so that you don't *have* to alpha-blend it (allowing it, among other things, to move freely).

zamuz

21st January 2003 04:02 UTC

Yep, that's more noticable if you disable the blend in that DM...
I just have one question: Atero, are you really 14 years old? Cause I am, but you know way too much maths...

Phaze1987

21st January 2003 12:19 UTC

hey!
Nice presets dude ! Really like them ;)
Heh,i can see most of you guys are 14-15 old...Me too :)
Good luck with your presets ! :)

zamuz

21st January 2003 14:33 UTC

New version of Artsy Messy ready... This time I made sure that I included the required APE. Enjoy.

Raz

21st January 2003 16:00 UTC

wow, very nice, like the way it blends slowly between things while moving around, good job :)

anubis2003

21st January 2003 21:17 UTC

Much nicer, I love the blend from dark to light. Very soothing. I don't really like the moving particles though, but they are alright now.

Raz

22nd January 2003 02:08 UTC

Got bored and made a slight remix, not much changed, just added a little something and its somewhere to put my 100th post Senior membership, yeah :blah: anyway enough about my poxy pointless membership here it is ;)

dirkdeftly

22nd January 2003 05:07 UTC

god, raz, that's senior membership in less than a month

you're worse than me ;)

anubis2003

22nd January 2003 14:44 UTC

I like the addition raz, I would reccomend using a velocity(change it on-beat) to control the bar instead of using sine. This way, it would keep on moving and wouldn't follow a fixed path.
Btw, I got senior membership in less than 3 weeks.

Raz

22nd January 2003 16:17 UTC

thats cos you got 7.15 posts per day :p

zamuz

22nd January 2003 18:08 UTC

That looks cool Raz. and congrats in your Senior :up:
Edit: Just figured out that it looks cooler if you put the Set render mode and the Superscope under the DM, so it applies to the whole thing, not just the white part.

Raz

23rd January 2003 03:38 UTC

wow that does look good.
have you released the pack yet? If not repost a full zip of what you are going to so we can see what youve got.

zamuz

23rd January 2003 14:35 UTC

Ok here it is... The current Visions pack, by Gonzalo Munoz.

anubis2003

23rd January 2003 14:49 UTC

Have any of these changed from the original version except for the changes you posted? I would consider throwing out space vert unless you can make it look a bit more like a halfpipe (going in between the two sides of it might work). Right now it just looks like a piece of wood floating around.

Raz

23rd January 2003 17:27 UTC

Very nice, Excellent pack. Annubis is right about space vert though, it just looks like a big glowing orange line IMO. Otherwise great.

zamuz

23rd January 2003 17:40 UTC

That post was made to see the pack progress, so there are no new changes... and about Space Vert, yeah the halfpipe look is... well lame. But I don't know how to improve it, as I've said before, I'm no pro. I'll try, of course, but don't expect too much.

zamuz

24th January 2003 22:30 UTC

New preset for you to enjoy... Some things to play around with:

- If you want to see more action one slower songs, set the inner-most Fadeout to none. If you see way too much chaos, set that same Fadeout to something higher (Not too much though, cause you'll ruin the whole effect using too much Fadeout).

- For some speed up, try disabling the 2nd effect list and the Brightness.

Enjoy.

anubis2003

25th January 2003 00:54 UTC

It's alright. I like it much more without the second effect list and brightness. Also, try changing the SSC from the default to a customized one(gets boring seeing the same ones over and over again).

Raz

25th January 2003 01:06 UTC

Not bad, its not as good as your other presets, like anubis said, use a differect more interesting superscope.

zamuz

25th January 2003 04:22 UTC

...And I was here thinking "Wow! I finally made a dynamic flow movement! And a cool color combination as well!"... I know nothing about Superscope coding, so I guess if I can't figure out some improvements for this one, that should be the end result (and maybe another preset out of the pack).

And... I give up on Space Vert. I've been experimenting and thinking a lot to figure something out... but "3D" presets are just too much for my little mind. From now on i'll try to focus more on design... Sure, when get more knowledge (studying from other AVS artists and actually understanding the maths needed) i'll give it another shot.

anubis2003

25th January 2003 05:05 UTC

Here, I remixed the file some. What do you think? Include it in your pack if you want to(just give me some credit). Also I think I fixed an error in your DM (changed s2=a1+(s2/1.06); to s2=a2+(s2/1.06);).
You definitely should include your preset in the pack. It has some really nice color fx.

zamuz

25th January 2003 15:35 UTC

Hey, that superscope is indeed really cool! I'll include both presets in the pack :up: And thanks for ponting that error too.

anubis2003

25th January 2003 15:39 UTC

Thanks zamuz. It wasn't much of an error in terms of the end result. It still looked the same. My remix kinda looks like a spiderweb, no?

zamuz

25th January 2003 16:38 UTC

Now that I think about it, it does! And I just looked at the superscope effect list, and... I'm just amazed... Creating that kind of SSC actuall takes some time...

anubis2003

25th January 2003 17:00 UTC

Yeah, but I actually wrote a c++ program to output the superscope formulas for any polyhedron, given the coordinate list for each face - this helped a lot with my 120-polyhedron(120 faces,62 vertices). It still takes a long time to copy and paste, though.

Raz

26th January 2003 06:05 UTC

yeah but worth it, wow very very nice preset there
:down::):up:

zamuz

29th January 2003 20:12 UTC

Made some changes to the DM's from Flowy and Fractalish Colormania... They're a lot more dynamic now: In Flowy the DM switches on-beat randomly between 8 possible movements (but 2 of them appear most of the time), and in Fractalish Colormania the fractal changes its shape on-beat. Enjoy.

Edit: I think I'm done with this pack, cause I think it has enough presets, and this thread is way too big. Am I right?

anubis2003

29th January 2003 20:59 UTC

In fractalish colormania, I don't like how the smaller fractal stays almost completely black. Still looks nice though.
You're up to about 12 presets aren't you? I would go for a total of about 20.

3dino

29th January 2003 21:08 UTC

nice!

zamuz

15th February 2003 02:30 UTC

Ok I was out of town for 2 weeks so I couldn't post these presets... I'm posting them now but I'm leaving again for another week so I'll have to wait to read your replies... But I got some beautiful thingies here... Check out Purple Sunset, a realistic yet beautiful and really good looking preset, I think. The others are two versions of my renderless experiments. Enjoy.

Raz

15th February 2003 10:58 UTC

nice, these look pretty sweet. Purple sunset is the best though, that is amazing 5 star preset there. Simplicity is too simple :rolleyes: you need to incorporate more shapes and change the colours a little more. Simplicity 2, same with this, it needs colour, this one looks a little better shapewise though. Good work overall :up:

dirkdeftly

15th February 2003 19:33 UTC

Simplicity2 is a bit grainy, and the purple sunset needs to be a bit more dynamic and synced - the sky and sea are completely seperate ;)(nice use of bump tho). Simplicity is quite cool. I recognize the DM from something else you did....can't remember what it was

Phaze1987

15th February 2003 21:31 UTC

Purple sunset is a 6 stars preset! It is G R E A T :) Simplicity 1 and 2 are a little...simple.Try making it a bit more dynamic and make the background rotate a little ;)

anubis2003

15th February 2003 22:12 UTC

Simplicity(1 and 2) - Too simple IMHO. Need something to make them more complex.
Purple Sunset - Could be amazing, if you made the water and sky textures change. Also the sky texture isn't tileable, although the split isn't very noticible.

zamuz

24th February 2003 01:10 UTC

I'm back! :D
Those Simplicity presets are supposed to be that simple... I'll try to make them more interesting, but not more complex, to keep the original idea. And Purple Sunset is not synched cause I tried to make it as real as possible... You're supposedly not between two planes, just traveling through the water and the clouds just go where the wind leads them (maybe too fast, but it looks boring with a slower movement). Yeah, the sea and clouds are static, but I can't figure any way to make them move... They were made through static grains, but using moving grain looks ugly... Anybody has ideas on how to do this? Oh, and the DM on Simplicity is based on the Shiny Star alpha blend thing.
Thanks for the support everybody.

anubis2003

24th February 2003 01:15 UTC

Zamuz, I would still do something to the simplicity presets. They are just too basic for me(it is all very predictable). Maybe if you had the shapes morph some more it would be better.

zamuz

25th February 2003 02:34 UTC

Made some changes... Lots of colors in Simplicity, and moving sky and sea textures in Purple Sunset. Well... they kind of move... it's more noticable without sound. Also, the movement range of the sea part is limited to prevent ugly edges between tiles (that didn't work for the sky though...) To make the clouds change shape slower, go to the inner most Custom BPM and set the arbitrary BPM to something lower. Enjoy.

dirkdeftly

25th February 2003 04:02 UTC

/me thinks you should release the god damned pack and be done with it - then post an entirely different thread about it cos this one's HUGE

anubis2003

25th February 2003 04:26 UTC

They are lovely, zamuz.
Simplicity still has the same basic simplicity, but with an added level that makes for a very nice effect. - 4.0
Purple Sunset - The sky isn't static which is great. It kinda flashes some, but it is still very nice. - 4.0

zamuz

25th February 2003 05:33 UTC

Thanks there. And yeah this is a huge thread so I'm finally relasing the pack. Thanks everybody for everything. :up: