bitsofbaconboy

3rd February 2004 18:08 UTC

Visualization as a Background?
Is there a way to make AVS a "background image"? I was thinking of some kind of presentation deal and overlaying text on top of the visualization. Possible? Thanks.

anubis2003

3rd February 2004 19:33 UTC

AVS has a text renderer...

UIUC85

3rd February 2004 19:36 UTC

and mouse click detection if you want to have that sort of control

bitsofbaconboy

3rd February 2004 20:26 UTC

can you go forwards and backwards? sort of a powerpoint presentation, or slide show deal?

Warrior of the Light

3rd February 2004 20:45 UTC

You can also set the overlay color as the background color in PPoint

anubis2003

3rd February 2004 20:48 UTC

With the new version of AVS you should be able to do basically whatever you want. Global variables to keep track of what slide you're on, and then just text output - although I don't know if the new version has done much to improve the text render which was horrible in previous versions. I really should get back and mess with AVS some more.

Nic01

3rd February 2004 22:52 UTC

You can set a color for overlay color, use it to show stuff in PPoint, and set alpha to total... (assuming you have Win2K or WinXP)

If it's a presentation, I think that option is the best...

UnConeD

4th February 2004 00:43 UTC

Prev/next keys are U and Y.

Deamon

4th February 2004 09:10 UTC

5 Steps to the easiest and in your case best way (imo):

1. Make your presentation in PowerPoint, with background set to one color.

2. Run winamp -> avs -> settings -> display -> overlay mode ON.

3. Set overlay color to exactly the same color as your background color in your PowerPoint Presentation.

4. Swap back to Powerpoint, and run your presentation.

5. Have lot's of fun.

bitsofbaconboy

9th February 2004 15:32 UTC

OK what about when AVS is in fullscreen mode? That takes over the screen and wont allow for any control. I'm using 2 moniters. Is there a way to have them independent of each other?

hungryskull

9th February 2004 22:01 UTC

You have to use overlay mode. Fullscreen is slow and won't allow much control.

S-uper_T-oast

15th February 2004 04:55 UTC

You can do fancy things with different effect lists and global buffers and counters and mouse click detection like what I am planning on using for my pack's main preset, a coded GUI...

btw-Minnesota sucks doesn't it....

bitsofbaconboy

18th February 2004 14:25 UTC

Thanks for everyone's help. I'm still not totally sure, but I've got a lot to go on.

MN isn't THAT bad. 'Course I've lived here all my life so I just don't know any better! :P