UnConeD

16th December 2003 21:39 UTC

Final Whack
Whey, go and see at Deviantart.com.

Probably at Winamp.com too sometime in the future, once the submission process gets fixed :weird:.

Jaak

16th December 2003 21:52 UTC

allready told everything :D

Raz

16th December 2003 23:45 UTC

I KNEW IT!

;)

I found myself muttering 'genious' on more than one occasion. Loved Seismogrid, Tokyo Bullet and Don't trip and drive the best.

Shock Value

17th December 2003 00:22 UTC

In one word...

WOW.

In many...

Yum - Yummy indeed. Very nice color scheme. Great superscope-created texture. The TV theme works very well here. Excellent choice for an intro.

Blueprint Isometrica - Very cool tile preset. There's some kind of illusion of depth going on here and I like it.

Isometrica - Cool, but not very dynamic. I liked the Blueprint version better.

Rainbow Ball - You're right, it does look organic. Sweet colors, like oil in water or something.

Goldie - This preset is godlike. Best 3D object preset ever. Best spectrum preset ever. Best use of color in a preset ever. Magnificant. I appreciate the work done to get the planes drawn in order too.

Goolicious - Extremely impressive technical preset. The DM looks hella-complicated. Colors aren't bad either.

License to Chill - Hahaha, what a cheesy name. Sweet as hell preset though. That dancer is really convincing. Awesome work.

Daedalus - Great use of math to make cool shapes. Very mystical (as I'm sure it was intended to be). This one is easy to look at.

Insane Architect - AAH too much! I liked the origional better, but the colors aren't bad on this. The proplem is that even soft music makes the scope go fucking insane!

Stick Around - Love the coloring. The texture in the orange areas is awsome. Very effective illustration of depth.

Seismogrid - Possibly my favorite preset ever. Texer and scopes go together PERFECTLY. Amazing wavelike movement. Colors add so much to this movement. You got this effect nailed.

Fiber Optics - I've seen similar presets, but this is my favorite. The texture is what sets it apart. Great visualization of the inside of a fiber optic cable.

Rusty Curls - Cool texture. Interesting colors. Not the best of the pack though.

Phoenix - Very simple and nice. However, I think you should stick to the more original, creative, and/or technical stuff UnConeD. This just doesn't compare to what other AVSers have done with these types of presets. Stiff, it's not bad.

Come Fly With Me - Another effect nailed perfectly.It eally feels like a cartoon. I don't have a lot to say about this, except that it is a truly original preset that works just like it should. Great work!

VJ Chmutov - Amazing. I love how you make this DM look like a solid shape. The camera moves perfectly too. The red tone works excellently too. It seems to slow down in framerate when the camera isn't pointed at the opject though. Odd. Still sweet as fuck though.

Hello Light - Very cool. The colors aren't perfect though. I see what kind of scheme you were going for with the aqua and red, but it could use a bit of tweaking. I prefer the original, but this isn't bad either.

Silk Strings - This looks so effortless (and yet I know it's actually a product of hours or work). Perfect colors, amazingly smooth movement. I love it.

Bipolar - This is cool. A nicely lit, colorfully blurred preset. A little too fast for me though.

Tokyo Bullet - Sweet! This is a huge improvement over the original. Very creative signs and whatnot. Great, smooth movement. So much work went into this and it SHOWS!

Elevation - Ha, thanks for mentioning me! I know I've said this before, but great preset. This is what I had in mind when making Claustrophobia.

Don't Trip and Drive - Normally I wouldn't like these outrageous colors. But considering the fact that this whole preset is outrageous, I like them a lot! Great interactivity, and awesome technical work.

Around the World - This is a great way to end the pack. The way the flags are created is awesome. The patterns are perfect. Great wavy movement, as usual for you. The BG actually adds a lot to this preset too. Great choice of coloring for it.

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"Hopefully I will have caught you by surprise by releasing this pack. I said there wouldn't be a Whacko AVS VII, and in a way it's still true: this pack was created with a different mindset.

Whacko AVS was about making your eyes jump out of their sockets, Final Whack is about me doing what I want with AVS and creating really weird, wicked presets. Maybe the end result is somewhat similar to Whacko AVS, but I still think there's a difference."
-UnConeD

Pixelcraft

17th December 2003 04:01 UTC

What do this pack and the matrix reloaded have in common?

They are both technically insane, and after they are over, you have to take a deeeeep breath. :D

IT IS DA BOMB! IT'S TEH GRANDMASTA ATOM BOMB, G!

I was actually laughing from the unbelievable things that I just saw done in AVS. These visuals are so...intense, that I just started to laugh at their craziness.

Pretty good way to start out the revolution of AVS, I must say. :up:

5+5*5^5 stars.

:winamp: :winamp: :winamp: :winamp: :winamp:

Warrior of the Light

17th December 2003 07:07 UTC

I really mean this:
If there ever were a pack on this planet that was worth 5 stars, this would be it.

One word: [Bart Simpson voice] Dude... [/Bart Simpson voice]

Tuggummi

17th December 2003 12:57 UTC

Hmm... So when you made your packs before you did them for... what reason? To prove some technical point that "avs can indeed dig it" O_o

The minute you started to make presets you like and not for making a point, you started making stuff that is better than any of the previous whacko's alltogether.

My absolute favorite is Goldie, i just love it to death. I'll probably go blind staring at it while playing my playlist through :D (btw. should be pretty fitting for the rap you see on Mtv :p "too bad" i don't listen to it :blah: )

3dino

17th December 2003 14:05 UTC

sehr geil!

Deamon

17th December 2003 17:17 UTC

two words:

1. *drool*
2. Awesome!

:D

Jaheckelsafar

17th December 2003 17:32 UTC

There's no Canada in Around The World. I feel so left out. :p

Sweet pack man.

UIUC85

17th December 2003 20:16 UTC

I'm really impressed with the voxel usage in Don't Trip and Drive. That looks really damn good man. Silk Strings looks incredible. Fiber Optics is also a very nice effect you pulled off. Seismogrid is one of my favs of the pack but I like it with a toned down texer image. Daedalus looks pretty damn good and mathy and god knows I love the mathiness lol. Never was a fan of the dancing people presets but it looks cool and I can appreciate the time and effort put into it. Nice rendering in goldie. Very smooth. Wasn't a big fan of Stick Around and Rusty Curls but still nice looking presets.

Overall I enjoyed it. Some of them are really amazing music visualizations. Others are just technically jaw dropping. Most of them I just sit the thinking, "how the hell did he do that!?" And then I give up and realize I probably wouldn't understand anyways, but man... what you have have in that head up there is something else. Good job.

Jaak

17th December 2003 20:28 UTC

Most of them I just sit the thinking, "how the hell did he do that!?" And then I give up and realize I probably wouldn't understand anyways, but man... what you have have in that head up there is something else.

UIUC85

17th December 2003 22:14 UTC

Actually I think that was the purpose of all his other packs, not this one.

Where did you get that idea for rendering Dont Trip and Drive? Is there a name for that style of rendering? It looks like raycasting to me but I dont know if you changed it or not.

hungryskull

18th December 2003 01:07 UTC

Some of us thought you were gone for good.

UnConeD

18th December 2003 01:52 UTC

Where did you get that idea for rendering Dont Trip and Drive? Is there a name for that style of rendering? It looks like raycasting to me but I dont know if you changed it or not.

UIUC85

18th December 2003 02:23 UTC

Thats what I interpret as a voxel engine.
http://www.theteahouse.com.au/gba/voxlap.html

UnConeD

18th December 2003 02:50 UTC

The link won't open here...

but there are two kind of 'voxel renderers'. One is the classic demo scene landscape effect that I recreated, and another is the literal meaning of voxels (volume pixels), where an object is built out of tiny colored cubes and rendered that way.
Maybe you're confusing those.

The name for my effect is not completely wrong though. Originally, you'd have a grayscale bitmap that depicted height. You could imagine a landscape being built from this by converting every pixel into a vertical bar of a certain height. Every bar would be a volume-equivalent of a pixel, so also a voxel. Remember, 'pixel' stands for 'picture element', so 'voxel' is 'volume element'. The bars in the classic effect are just as much volume-elements as the 'real' cubic voxels.

Mine doesn't use a bitmap for a heightfield, but rather a function in 2 variables. But the rendering method is still the same as the old way (stepping over the landscape and comparing the projected height of the last step to the current).

UIUC85

18th December 2003 03:13 UTC

Copy and paste the link. Yeah ok that's where I got confused. I hadn't seen this effect in AVS so it was a new idea to me. Cool effect though. I'll have to remember that one.

UnConeD

18th December 2003 03:27 UTC

Um it's not a problem with the link, I get "Connection refused when attempting to contact www.theteahouse.com.au".

S-uper_T-oast

18th December 2003 03:36 UTC

Holy sweet jesus, I am speechless man... I knew it all along, you are a space alien!

infinity+1 stars

UIUC85

18th December 2003 04:39 UTC

Hmmm I dont know why that site isn't working for you. works here...

Warrior of the Light

18th December 2003 13:05 UTC

ditto

hungryskull

19th December 2003 01:09 UTC

The link is fine.

And this is an awesome pack!

§upernova

19th December 2003 05:58 UTC

I LOVE THIS PACK!!!

Don't Trip And Drive is my favorite, I had a blast ramping off the hills! (A good way to get a good framerate but a big window is to just make the window full screen, instead of clicking the fullscreen button, it goes about 2X as fast)

Fiberoptics is amazing too!

YOU ARE A GENIOUS!

fsk

19th December 2003 12:37 UTC

hmm what to say...
*crunches to the floor to find his eyeballs*
. :)

mikm

20th December 2003 19:45 UTC

aaghh...stupid deviantart is down.