Woodwizzle

27th June 2003 10:10 UTC

My First AVS Preset
Wasn't too happy with the matrix visualizations available for AVS so I made one. Came out pretty nice for my first AVS. The font isn't mine, I donloaded it off the web. The font (and the accompaning readme) are included but you still gotta install them seperately.

Here it is

All comments and critiques are welcome, I realize I'm a n00b and have a lot to learn.

Wizzle

[Ishan]

27th June 2003 16:46 UTC

Toooo slow and too many fx lists used and kinda buggy.

Jaheckelsafar

27th June 2003 17:52 UTC

That actually pretty incredible for a noob preset. Ishan is right though. Too slow, and you could probably loose a few effect lists.

Woodwizzle

27th June 2003 20:42 UTC

Thanks for advice, I knew it was pretty slow but I liked it too much to cut back before :), I got rid of the most exspensive onBeat effect, one of the streams of text, and some of the background text. It's alot faster now but still pretty slow! I updated the zip file, the new and improved preset is called reloaded2. Do you guys have any other tips to speed it up? maybe faster ways to get the same general effects done? And what do you mean by buggy Ishan? Are you refering to how the vertical text stretches when you run at higher resolutions? Any tips on how to fix that too?

Keep the comments coming!

Raz

27th June 2003 20:50 UTC

Remove the DDM, it just looks so, so noobish, and the onbeat clears, they just anno me for some reason. The text looks awesome, nice work.

Woodwizzle

27th June 2003 21:08 UTC

The DDM *is* gone. Reloaded2.avs is the updated preset, reloaded.avs is the old one left in the zip file for comparison. Maybe that was confusing. I'll re-upload the zip with ONLY the new file from now on.

Woodwizzle

27th June 2003 22:22 UTC

Another quick update. Got the background text in there just by fudgin' with blending modes which looks a lot better. I moved grain and blur outta an effect list and I also toned down the onbeat clears but they're still there. Any better?

[Ishan]

28th June 2003 06:07 UTC

still too slow for me, i get 7 fps at 400x300.
and woodwizzle , by buggy i mean the bug in the render/text which fills the blue colorchannel when used additive blend.

Woodwizzle

28th June 2003 06:21 UTC

Ahh, i don't seem to get that but:) And I get about 20fps at 400x300... I just changed all the additive's to replace. Does that fix it?

[Ishan]

28th June 2003 06:29 UTC

i guess so....

Woodwizzle

28th June 2003 10:48 UTC

WHOOPS! I think I was uploading my zip file to the wrong directory. My Bad. I fixed it though. Should be considerably faster than the last version that was up there. *doh!*

Pixelcraft

30th June 2003 03:27 UTC

You don't have to put the font in the fonts folder - it doesn't even let me put it there on my computer. If you put it in the avs folder (like everything else), it will work there.

If you took out all of the effect lists that have just text in them, it will be the same image except exceedingly faster. This is because you have copied the same text repeatedly and it won't be any different because they will be in the same spot, just overlapping each other. And the matrix screen it supposed to have a black background, does it not? UnConeD mentioned this problem in his matrix preset from the first Whacko pack.

He tells you how to avoid this in the following comment:

there's the falling letters effect. This should've been a lot easier if it weren't for a weird bug in the text-renderer that causes the blue-colorchannel to be filled slightly. Very annoying if you want to do additive texts. The workaround is to cut away the blue channel and then clip all yellow to white again.