Integer Spin

28th May 2003 15:47 UTC

Hello Everyone!
Hi all!

My first post on the board, won't be anything groundbreaking, but hope you enjoy them...

Feedback would be nice, but be kind :)

Three presets included:

Beacon - Simple, but pretty. Have some decent loud music on when you start it.

Pentagram - Nice little pentagram that occasionally gets angry... well, give it 10-20 seconds, anyway. Good for those of you with a darker side :cool:

Flowers - Polar coordinate flower trace aliasing makes nice spiky things that change on beat. Variation makes it good to watch for a while.

By the way, I've just remembered that my screen is twice as dark as anyone elses, so you might want to whack a brightness filter on it or something if it seems too bright.
And yes, I like the water effect too much. Sue me.

Finally, if you could tell me what sort of fps' you get, that's handy too... they're designed to be viewed at about 30 or so.

Raz

28th May 2003 16:21 UTC

Hmm, kind of nice, a refreshing change from the usual noob presets anyway. Reminds me of newpicks but with water instead of fadeout. I can see you're experimenting with simple scopes which is always good, very nice work on these for a noob. I would advise checking out the forums, using the search feature to find threads that contain useful bits, the two tips and tricks threads and Atero's primer. Always nice to see new people ineterested in AVS, welcome to the forums :)

Phaze1987

28th May 2003 23:34 UTC

Welcome to the forums IntegerSpin :) Nice presets you have here,pretty relaxing and a not the usual n00b stuff.Whats wrong with the screen?Have you tried using the buttons on the monitor?Maybe brightness could help.:confused: :D
FPS rate-> 25-30,pretty fast.
Have fun AVSing!

hungryskull

29th May 2003 01:54 UTC

Decent presets. It would be nice if the colours in Pentagram changed though.

Integer Spin

29th May 2003 08:37 UTC

Colours change in the pentagram? Well, really easily fixed, but dude, it's... a pentagram. There's just something about the classic satanists symbol in red, y'know :) What other colours would you have it in?! Also a nice touch to add a circle round it, if you can be bothered. I've got one with a circle lying around if anyone wants it.

My screen? It's just old. Screen burn I guess. It's on the brightest setting already. It's also really blurry...

It's funny though, I have a 42 inch plasma TV screen that I want to use as a monitor (that would rock), but I don't have a graphics card with a tv out. In fact, come to that, I don't have a graphics card at all... I should probably get round to getting one one of these days, but I just never get round to it.

Mmm... bacon...

uNDefineD

29th May 2003 08:44 UTC

Beacon actually works a lot better with soft rock on, especially Boa - Duvet. Good work!

Jaheckelsafar

29th May 2003 09:21 UTC

Not a bad set there. It's good you're experimenting. It's the best way to learn.

I liked beacon the best, despite the complete lack of music reactivity. I dunno, it just looked the nicest.

edit:
oops, there is music reactivity, I just didn't notice with the song I was playing.

Calrobowiz

29th May 2003 09:40 UTC

I like how you have done these presets. My favorite is Beacon. I does go well with any music as long as it's loud. Good job and keep up the good work!

Raz

29th May 2003 09:54 UTC

actually the satanist symbol is this:
http://www.landosmiles.com/pentagram.jpg
What you have, is a star :p

[Ishan]

29th May 2003 10:51 UTC

Nice presets there for a start:up: and i would suggest same as Raz, try the Atero's primer ,its really helpful.
And welcome to the forums:)

Integer Spin

29th May 2003 12:18 UTC

Star shmar. It's the satanists symbol, you just... erm... clearly don't have a high enough resolution to see all the symbols I programmed in... er... hmm...

Or the water effect made them invisible... yeah, that's it...

Anyway, sometimes you have to sacrifice detail for simplicity for the sake of style. I'm sure the devil knows that as well as anyone, so (s)he won't mind too much :)

Jaak

29th May 2003 13:37 UTC

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Integer Spin

29th May 2003 13:42 UTC

Yeah, that's the one Jack!

See, someone agrees with me!

Raz

29th May 2003 13:43 UTC

Yours is a regular pentagram, the satanists symbol is an upside down star.

Jaak

29th May 2003 13:45 UTC

i know, i know, but still... yea... nvm

Integer Spin

29th May 2003 14:36 UTC

Yeah, here's one with a circle around it if anyone's interested. And I put in some colours around the outside of the rim, which is kind of cool...

Oh, and since people are all talking about the matrix atm, I made something that would be good in the background of something in the matrix style... just an idea, needs something more in the foreground... but I'm not good enough at seperating layers yet. I don't know how it is done... I'm not sure it's possible, the movement trans thing is a bit powerful. Anyway, see what you think.

[Ishan]

29th May 2003 15:42 UTC

you can always use effect lists for layers.:)

Integer Spin

29th May 2003 16:00 UTC

That doesn't work at all... ?

The layers still affect each other. Unless I'm missing something?

[Ishan]

29th May 2003 16:27 UTC

what exactly do you want to do?tell me first so i can help you:)

Integer Spin

29th May 2003 19:47 UTC

Right; we have our swirly background layer that has movement transforms on it. Then we have a seperate foreground layer that is unnaffected by the movement transforms that affect the background layer... its output just replacing whatever is below.

So for example we have a scope spiral with watery effects or fuzzify or whatever that produces a nice haze in the background, then a sharply defined moving particle in the foreground that isn't fuzzified.

I think maybe buffers do something like this? No idea.

Jaheckelsafar

29th May 2003 21:18 UTC

background stuff
effect list with ouput set the buffered blend
...foreground stuff
...buffer save

Integer Spin

29th May 2003 23:21 UTC

Yes, that works!

But I'm suffering HUGE fps losses! Really chronic ones!

Is there away around this? I'm not even using very complicated components...

I'm also getting music skipping... big problem.

[Ishan]

30th May 2003 08:19 UTC

If you can post the preset here maybe i can see what's the problem:)

Raz

30th May 2003 08:24 UTC

The problem is, AVS is slow, deal with it.

unripeLemon

31st May 2003 15:27 UTC

Nerw people, and promising as well! You certanly know your SSCs. There are so many new people now, it's great:D

unripeLemon

31st May 2003 15:29 UTC

and another londoner;D

[Ishan]

31st May 2003 16:06 UTC

you could have used the edit button:)

unripeLemon

31st May 2003 18:31 UTC

Screw the edit button:D

WHCode RED

31st May 2003 21:39 UTC

I would call the forum police on you but i wanna join in. I mean.. uhh.. i didn't mean... *runs*

unripeLemon

1st June 2003 11:19 UTC

I'll remember that code red, what does it matter if I didn't use the edit button:(

[Ishan]

1st June 2003 17:54 UTC

Nothing actually happens if you dont use the edit button, but its just that some people like to post pump.......

WHCode RED

1st June 2003 19:14 UTC

yea, look at my post count!







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Tuggummi

2nd June 2003 14:13 UTC

Quite nice change from the standard newbie presets, but i don't like your use of the water filter, example: Beacon has some really clever & nice scopes, but the water filter messes it up i think.

Welcome to the forums :up: