Too-DAMN-Much

6th April 2004 20:15 UTC

got bored in the AVS editor
three presets i made from modified (heavily) presets i already had

TomyLobo

6th April 2004 21:30 UTC

"darkness mouth with explosions" and "don't sue for seizures" are way too flickery
hmm and all 3 are too slow for avs presets...

Too-DAMN-Much

6th April 2004 23:35 UTC

not sure about the first one - comes up pretty dark with the band thingy in the middle - dunno, toy with the options in the editor if ya want it different.
as for the second.... well i thought people'd expect that from the name


not sure what you mean about "too slow", using a decent comp/video-card though if that's what you mean

TomyLobo

7th April 2004 01:01 UTC

avs uses CPU/RAM only... i have 11 fps with the 3rd preset on an Athlon XP 1700+ and enough 266MHz RAM. its not a high-end-machine but remember: if you make your .avs so slow that it only runs fluently on high-end machines, then dont expect to get good comments, because it will run slow on most machines, VERY slow on some machines and only run fluently on a few machines.


a few tips to optimize that preset (3)
- dont activate the "enabled" checkbox AND the "enabled on beat" checkbox think of "enabled" as "always enabled". unchecking all your "enabled on beat" checkboxes gave an 1 fps increase.
- remove the "buffer restore 1" it actually does nothing because you never save to buffer 1. same counts for the "buffer save 8": you never read out of buffer 8 so you dont need to save to it
- i get an fps increase of more than 6 by disabling the first effect list... this seems to be the biggest CPU time sink.

1. Effect list:
the effect list inside the effect list seems to do nothing but clearing the screen. at least that's what comes out: a black screen :) use the "Clear every frame" checkbox in the outer effect list instead, set its input blending mode to "Ignore" and remove the inner effect list.

2. Trans / Texer:
A texer on a blank image does absolutely nothing. remove it

3. Render APE / FyrewurX:
absolutely ok :)

4. Misc / Custom BPM:
does nothing as there are no beat-reactive components after it. remove it

5. Trans / Dynamic Movement
this is probably the biggest slowdown in that effect list, because it has a 64x64 gridsize.
i recommend using a static movement instead. it's way faster and looks nicer (i think). just put the whole code (Init, Frame and Pixel in this order) into the movement and activate "Rectangular Coordinates"

et voila: it doesnt look too different from the original but is 30% faster.

to the name of the 2nd preset: seizure has many meanings better use "bout" or "attack" here. i expected some illegal goods here (something they'd seize at the borders, like neon shrooms containing mind-altering substances ;) )
anyway, i don't like presets that invert on every frame... and i don't think there are many avs users who like them because they mean two simple things: pain in your eyes and if you watch longer, you get a headache
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// This shows how to use texer for 3D particles
// Additive or maximum blend mode should be used

Too-DAMN-Much

7th April 2004 03:59 UTC

thanks for the input on that, glad you were able to get a little better fps on that third one, i just don't notice the resources it takes because i recently rebuilt the computer and almost nothing slows it down.
glad you liked my first three presets, it's simply completely amateur stuff i did mainly because i thought "hey i wanna make the pretty colors!" ;D
and plus i wanted to try to figure out how to make presets of my own at least a little.
thanks to unconed for the bitmap i used with the texer (sorry forgot to give credit earlier since i wasn't sure if it was nessecary for the standard one's that came with WA)

as for the other stuff you mentioned, i'm sorry to say it but i just don't feel like screwing around and making the noise i need for editing presets.......

plus i'm not nearly that good at math, looked in the expressions help thing and got lost instantly (yes i'm a dumb whiteboy) :p