Magic.X

23rd June 2003 15:44 UTC

Nullsofts supersecret superhidden AVS stuff! // Codename "LASER"
Crawling through the AVS-related windows i found some mysteriously named, hidden elements on the "Display" config screen.

I got curious and tryed to reveal them. Finally i succeeded but none of those damn things seem to work.

If you like, see yourselfes i uploaded a small app that will show you.

Anyway, this shows that there is at least something going on.

I could imagine that "LASER" is some sort of VJ'ing upgrade. On the other side there is a checkbox sayin' something about database stuff.

I have no real clue jet, but this is definately a function that's already included but still not ready, otherwise they'd just leave crap in their code and make the download bigger.

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shreyas_potnis

23rd June 2003 16:06 UTC

i think this has been discussed before.

Magic.X

23rd June 2003 16:18 UTC

Oh, sorry, just saw it.
Had'nt thought of searching, as it's quite hard to detect.

Forget about it then.

Yathosho

23rd June 2003 16:20 UTC

there was even an mpeg in the forums. link is dead though.

Magic.X

23rd June 2003 18:49 UTC

Yeah just found it by searching. Although there is still no clear information about this. maybe this will get a usefull function somewhen.

mikm

23rd June 2003 18:52 UTC

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....ighlight=laser

this is nothing new when I hacked 2.6 and it came up, I checked 2.5.1 too, but it was still there

Magic.X

23rd June 2003 19:03 UTC

Yeah, you found out by hacking, i scanned through the window handles with winsight.

Ok, lets leave this.

anubis2003

24th June 2003 03:42 UTC

That mpeg was cool. Too bad the LASER thing isn't actually included yet.

UnConeD

24th June 2003 16:35 UTC

Um, how would it be useful except to people who actually HAVE a laser and have the compatible interface with their PC?

As far as I can see, it's just regular AVS except that only line-drawing components are included. The line drawing commands are then passed to the laser, the image generated by AVS itself is just so you can preview it on the PC too.
In the MPEG, you could see the component list, which was much shorter (and of course, no effect lists).
You could see a regular superscope, plus a bigger set of 'standard' effects (precoded stuff that can be tweaked, like osc-star or such).

It's still cool though, because the kind of stuff we've been used to (freeform, real-time pluggable effects with infinite customizability) is actually majorly rare in the VJ'ing business, which still relies much on videoloops. The last big party I was at with projections did feature some sort of geiss-clone and wildtangent stuff, but it gets boring quick (yes, the wildtangent stuff works exactly like we think it does: it gets people's attention at first, but then they go 'um , boring!'). Usually 'real-time mixed and captured' means having a camera on the audience and using that in some way.

anubis2003

24th June 2003 17:14 UTC

The laser thing would be awesome to see at a party though. Too bad lasers capable of using something like this are really damn expensive.

Rovastar

24th June 2003 20:30 UTC

Lets leave this hey.

geez even *I* knew this was a thread a few weeks back.:p