UnConeD

19th April 2004 03:29 UTC

Community Picks
Occassionaly I hear people complaining about the selection of presets in Winamp5. I agree with them though: AVS is one of the cooler standard visualisers in media players, and the standard selection doesn't really show it off. I think it's time we got a 'Community Picks' folder to go along with Winamp5.

The result should be a collection of 20-30 or so high-quality presets, with varied styles. Technicals are of course allowed, but remember that this pack will be intended for newbies who don't care about lines of code, but visual and soundresponsive quality.

I'm sure we can get Nullsoft to include it (and otherwise we'll pick out the sexiest AVSer to go seduce a nullsoft employee).

So here's the plan: 2 phases, 1) selection and 2) voting.

Everyone picks their 5 favourite presets and posts them here, attached as a ZIP file, including all required support files (bitmaps and such). You are allowed to submit your own presets if you want, but be honest with yourself: this is about quality visuals, not egos.

Check if your preset has already been chosen by another member. If so, there's no point in posting it twice, because we're not voting yet at this stage. Go ahead and pick a replacement preset if you want, or just post less than 5.

Picking only 5 might be hard, but it's to keep the selection managable.

It's best to avoid presets which use large images, to keep the total size down. Small texer-bitmaps are no problem of course.

You may only post your selection once: so think before you pick ;). This is also a good chance to go and download lots of AVS packs and discover new stuff.

2 weeks from now, the first round is over and I will take all suggested presets, remove the duplicates and put up a vote.

The exact mechanics of the vote will still have to be decided, but it's probably going to be a points-based vote (like on the Eurovision song contest). You get to hand out the scores 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 to presets. You may only use each score once, and may not give more than one score to a preset.
All scores are added up, and the highest ranking 'n' presets are selected. This system will select out the best presets easily, while still giving lesser presets a good chance at being selected. It also allows people with different first choices, but matching second (or third, fourth, ...) choices, to come to a better compromise.

Please keep the thread clear of useless posts, and make sure you don't forget your attachment! :rolleyes:

dirkdeftly

19th April 2004 07:13 UTC

Can we vote for ourselves? :P

Lessee...5 favourite presets...that could take a while. I also get the feeling that there will be way too many people who vote for 5 presets out of Whacko VI/Final Whack (I *hope* that's not what you wanted to get out of this ;) ). It's a good idea nonetheless. I'll get around to picking stuff out eventually...or not

horse-fly

19th April 2004 22:15 UTC

i hear some people who want the presets that came with the winamp 2 series... perhaps it is possible to include those also

hungryskull

19th April 2004 23:19 UTC

That won't be easy.

Warrior of the Light

20th April 2004 08:43 UTC

I suggest adding easy-to-understand presets too so newbs have examples of how to get started, instead of working through the technically high advanced stuff i'm expecting here...

Chapster

20th April 2004 16:24 UTC

Speaking as the Noob that I am, I think this is a great idea. ;-c ,rattaplan's suggestion would be a great help to us that have little hope of ever coding anything technical. Maybe even breaking the pac into different sections. Eg. Advanced , favorites (whether tech, beat response etc) ,easily manipulated (with comments on how to manipulate {Eg. change # in r=***** to change rotation, change # in d=*** to change distance and so on}). I think this may result in a fewer amount of dumb ass noob questions (me included) that are posted in the forums.

UnConeD

20th April 2004 18:11 UTC

Sorry, the idea is to include pretty presets for people who just want to watch: what's going behind the scenes is not important.

UIUC85

20th April 2004 19:31 UTC

We have the FAQ and multiple tutorials for "dumb ass noob questions" and COUNTLESS posts on how to do everything you'd ever want to do in AVS

Deamon

20th April 2004 21:15 UTC

I didn't bother to include them, since everyone has them anyways ;). I know it's not an original list, but I can't help it, they're simply the best. I will still include one of mine, since I like it a lot.

1. UnConeD - Final Whack - Seismogrid
2. UnConeD - Final Whack - Tokyo Bullet
3. Tuggummi - Extra Dimension - Let me out!
4. Skupers - Aetherius - Dual Flow
5. Deamon - Fill Rate

I wonder if I can beat up against the rest to get in the favs pack. I guess it'll be a lot of Final Whack and Tuggummi.

I kill you of it's your plan to get extra publicity, UnConeD! :p (j/k)

Raz

20th April 2004 23:17 UTC

I don't really have five favourites, but if someone doesn't include tuggummi - tanssiva mies 2, i will.

Tuggummi

21st April 2004 06:23 UTC

Raz, you don't like TM3? :p

Here is my favourite 5 presets :)


btw. is this thing going on for how long?

[edit]
UnConeD - Goldie
tuomas - floating body
Jay-Fatboy - Pieces of a Dead world
p3Etu - Voicemaster
HF - Eye am
[/edit]

horse-fly

21st April 2004 06:28 UTC

2 weeks

/edit: If my presets are going to be in the collection, i would like the to have the format of horse-fly instead of hf or the sort in the preset file name

UnConeD

21st April 2004 06:35 UTC

Please follow the instructions and submit your favourites in ZIP. It distributes the workload of having to collect the presets among everyone.

Raz

21st April 2004 10:35 UTC

I do like it but nothing beats 2 in a tiny window. Crazy dancing and whatnot.

hboy

21st April 2004 15:40 UTC

My all-time favourites are:

UnConeD - Goldie
UnConeD - Seismogrid
El-Vis - Spindle
Duo - Alien intercourse 4
Fsk - Teddy

I have included only the ones that have not been posted here, and I think you have the presets you made, UnConeD, so I didn't include them.

SnowflakePillow

23rd April 2004 05:42 UTC

el-vis_rittaufdemfeuerstrahl

26_Ex_Deux_Mechanica (amphiron)

UnConeD - FW - 22 - Don't Trip and Drive

Acid - Twitchy liquid shit (mixing plastics)

Snowflake Pillow - Convo Trigger (mine)

These aren't really favorite top presets (for example, I like Tokyo Bullet and Fragmer's lookitssummer (an outro) a little more than these), but definetly ones that could represent in the pack. Mine isn't an ego thing, but sort of the opposite. I think it looks really cool, but is also not too complex that it would intimidate a possible recruit. Many other presets proposed are great, but would have been very scary for me in the editor until a month or so ago.

fragmer

23rd April 2004 06:30 UTC

i had hard time choosing :D

- 06 S_KuPeRS - Curvism 002 (Tuggummi's Paprika Mix)
- 0xR - [fragmer bug2.5] J.jcL_Juicer_CinnAppMixx
- 10 - [zamuz vis3] big bang
- 32 Yathosho - SKOGSKLOCKA(TM)
- UnConeD - VI - 14 - Intergalactic Octopus

DynamicMovement

23rd April 2004 08:37 UTC

Dynamic Movement Festival Vol 1
[deleted: this was posted in the other forum as well --unconed]

TomyLobo

23rd April 2004 09:08 UTC

this is NOT the preset forum. this is the "Community Picks" thread. please post your new presets in the "AVS Presets" forum.
if you want to propose presets for the community picks, pick 5 presets, not 18...

as for me, i'm still choosing presets... there's so many fantastic presets out there it's hard to decide :)

DynamicMovement

23rd April 2004 11:56 UTC

My selections
1) Tuggummi - 32 - Tanssiva Mies 3 -el-visRMX
2) el-visVR17(soundscapedII)
3) UnConeD - 15 - Digital Fish
4) skupers ...hidden track...
5) yathosho_tetris

It is very hard to choose 5 presets, But, I select best of them.

amphirion

24th April 2004 05:29 UTC

my personal faves:
zamuz - sangre
skupers - gace
duo - photonic formation
degnic - adrenaline rush
amphirion - in transit

horse-fly

24th April 2004 06:36 UTC

horse-fly - 32 (Final)
horse-fly - Sativa
horse-fly - Vertical Limit (SS Remix)
Tonic - One More (BW Contest)
Tuggummi - Golden Drinks

UIUC85

24th April 2004 07:56 UTC

No offense but how about we lay off the self promotion. That defeats the purpose in my opinion..

UnConeD

24th April 2004 09:06 UTC

Voting will decide ;).

Deamon

24th April 2004 10:47 UTC

I think it would be better if each artist would post one or two presets of himself, after which will be decided it will be in the pack. Otherwise there'll almost only be UnConeD's, Tuggummi's and some Skupers presets. This way, much more different artists are able to show some of their work, and you'll get a much more varied pack.

Just my thoughts ;)

Tuggummi

24th April 2004 18:41 UTC

You give way too much credit to me Deamon :igor:

And you are basicly blaming yourself with that post :D It is you afterall who selects the presets for the vote and it is you who votes for them ;)

Just my 2 centimeters :p

zamuz

24th April 2004 18:52 UTC

here are mine :)

fsk - cube
skupers vs duo - conjuring sands
amphirion - geometric sustinance
skupers vs yathosho - pixel pixel
degnic - helium

Deamon

24th April 2004 23:30 UTC

But that are the best presets, it's that simple. I just think it would be nice if other artists would show their work in it as well, but this way, people who don't have the coding skills for it can pack their bags.

Yathosho

25th April 2004 01:17 UTC

Originally posted by Deamon
Otherwise there'll almost only be UnConeD's, Tuggummi's and some Skupers presets

jheriko

25th April 2004 02:40 UTC

Who am I to disagree with shameless self promotion.
Here are my 5 favs in alphabetical order (yes so I could list mine first :P)

Jheriko - Alien Device (Gallery Remix by Zamuz)
Jheriko - Flourescence
Skupers - The Revenge of Mt. Doom
Tuggummi - Damn Hedrons!
UnConeD - Mister Santa

I made my choices mostly based on the quality of the visual effect, there were a few really attractive presets that I skimmed over though due to their total lack of reactivity that I may have otherwise included.

Montana

25th April 2004 03:06 UTC

hard one, i think i must have left out some but here goes

montana vs. ernst - delayed chemistry
fsk - magnarings
tuggummi - bacteria
nemoorange - sun of leo
unconed - come fly with me

Tuggummi

25th April 2004 10:30 UTC

btw. If presets from ED are going to be selected id like to include the update versions not the old ones.

[edit]
Deamon, it is still up to you to select the presets. You don't have to select UnConeD's or skupers presets just, because the majority thinks they are the best. I myself am only going to vote only for one UnConeD's preset, because that's the only one i think that should be included.
So quit blaming yourself for not being able to select other than UnConeD's presets :igor:
[/edit]

Warrior of the Light

26th April 2004 21:06 UTC

My top-5:

Is the order important? in that case:

1) UnConeD - Daedalus
2) Tuggummi - Orb Of Destruction
3) El-Vis - Virus
4) Alchemist - Electric Laserland ('Inside Laserland' according to comment)
5) El-Vis - Golden

Okay, that's my list. It's only a few words, but it took quite a few hours to dig through the presets I have...
Now it's done, I notice that these are only quite simple (D)movement-based presets and no render-base presets, which somehow surprises me.
All presets are attached.

sidd

27th April 2004 02:15 UTC

wow.
You have no idea how long it took me to pick these out :S

my picking is based on:
-they respond to the music well
-they run fast(fps)
-they are pretty lookin'
-there isn't 50 identical presets out there that I could have picked instead.


zamuz - explosive virus
NemoOrange - Implode Explode
degnic - fractal (slow-mo metallic)
Degnic - Fury (extreme remix by fsk)
unconed - silk strings

JMeCOR64

27th April 2004 06:19 UTC

Whoops!!!

I forgot the attachment so i post my original post next to this post.

JMeCOR64

27th April 2004 07:23 UTC

FIRST POST in WINAMP FORUMS!!!

Okay, I've posted here because I'm a big fan of AVS.
I've seen presets almost as early as 1999.
Well, here are my top 5 favorites:


1) Degnic - Data Flow
2) Shock Value - Grafitti
3) UnconeD - All Neon-Like
4) El-VIS - Digitalistbesser
5) Tuggummi - Sound Rings


I decided to pick only 1 from an artist so that
I won't look like a fanboy of a particular person.
The presets I chose above are based from my experience
and took me awhile because it's really hard to decide.
Almost every preset i've seen today are visually stunning.

SnowflakePillow

28th April 2004 03:10 UTC

Revenge of Mt. Doom is an awesome pick.

skupers

28th April 2004 10:12 UTC

I decided to use some more unknown presets. It was extra difficult because I already have to pick a lot of favourite presets (Deskmod series) and I didn't want to repeat myself.

les Noobiens - das kaffeeservice (zamuz pretty rmx)
nixa - baptism by fire
tuggummi - guingtsing
nemoorange - spiriel
tonic - zoomed picture from one insect

And thanks to everyone that picked one of my presets. I really appreciate it.

Yathosho

28th April 2004 11:29 UTC

would've liked to pick some older stuff, but i havn't much installed

* les Noobiens - Give 'em enough Scope (El-Vis Remixed).avs
* NemoOrange - Life in Pearl City.avs
* S_KuPeRS - Hexual healing.avs
* UnConeD - Butterfly Caught.avs
* Zamuz - Sangre (Heat Remix).avs

UnConeD

29th April 2004 19:15 UTC

My picks...

Tuggummi - Chrome Deluxe (best chrome preset)

Unripelemon - Nectar (stylish flow preset with a lot of depth: seems to jump out of the AVS window)

fšk - ice cube (weird colors and stylized response, an old favorite)

Tuggummi + Jheriko - No way out remix (sweet 3D DM with sweet texture)

fšk - afterburner remix (This preset pwnz, with a 'p').

(I originally had Degnic - Dataflow, but that's was already picked)

Yathosho

29th April 2004 19:25 UTC

think we should keep the selection period running for some time, will contact those lazy bastards from devart to participate

UnConeD

29th April 2004 23:03 UTC

I just picked 2 weeks as a general time span. There's no real rush on this, but still, voting also has to be done.

Let's say May 7th as final selection deadline. I will put up the vote then.

TomyLobo

29th April 2004 23:56 UTC

My nominations for the Community Picks:

Artist - Pack - Preset
Montana - Mono AVS 6 - Petalpusher
Zamuz - Visions III - Energy
Zevensoft - AVSPack4 - Ocean4
fragmer - BuggyAVS-II - particles-II
Shock Value - Total Immersion - Architectural Design

Yathosho

30th April 2004 00:07 UTC

you forgot to attach the presets

TomyLobo

30th April 2004 00:49 UTC

erm oops yes you're right :)
was still collecting the bmps and stuff
(quite a lot of them... thanks fragmer :D)

Yathosho

30th April 2004 11:23 UTC

was also wondering, if architectural design preset is something meant for the end-consumer. i like it a lot, but it's nothing for viewing pleasure only.

UnConeD

30th April 2004 11:30 UTC

The only thing that bugs me about architectural design is that most of the help is inside the comments. There should be a mention of holding 'h' for help on the first screen.

Anyway, voting will decide :P.

TomyLobo

30th April 2004 12:27 UTC

i picked AD because i think it's very good at showing off AVS's new capabilities :)

Yathosho

30th April 2004 13:14 UTC

true about that, maybe i misunderstood the purpose of the pack ;)

jheriko

30th April 2004 13:37 UTC

Surely the purpose of the pack is the purpose that the whole community gives it? If everyone contributes what *they* want then we will end up with a good representation of the community's favorite presets, for whatever reason they are considered so great.

duo

1st May 2004 19:28 UTC

my picks:

zamuz - spiritual
tuggummi - über designers.com
nemo - building blocks
duo vs unconed - hash the planet
el-vis - hubble 02

Pixelcraft

2nd May 2004 01:44 UTC

Technicals are of course allowed, but remember that this pack will be intended for newbies who don't care about lines of code, but visual and soundresponsive quality

Shock Value

2nd May 2004 03:55 UTC

Here's a slightly improved version of Architectural Design with the text UnConeD suggested and a couple of extra reminders in the Top Down Designer. Hopefully this should point non-AVSers in the right direction if this preset gets voted in. (The zip also contains the AddBorders APE and two images that are all needed to view the preset correctly.)

Now to figure out what my five picks will be...

OnionRingOfDoom

2nd May 2004 21:23 UTC

God that was hard!

My picks would have to be these:

> Tuggummi - Warped
> Evilrice - Cleanroom (full moon remix)
> s_kupers - alpha ray damage
> Zamuz - back to cursor (in-depth rmx)
> UnConeD - Fiber Optics

UnConeD

2nd May 2004 22:23 UTC

READ THE INSTRUCTIONS.

ffs.

framesofreality

3rd May 2004 15:56 UTC

As you can see, this selection is pretty special, because only one preset is an original one,the others are remixes.
It seemed really hard to select, but after i read the post
i found most of my favs already submitted :),that made the process a LOT easier :D.

So my five favourites are :

>>AVS-King vs. Evilrice : High Tech ( Shards of Glass mix)
>>Skupers vs. Degnic : Spirit Realm (Plasmoid remix)
>>El-Vis : VR26 (orb)
>>Nemo vs. El-vis : Dreamtime 2 remix
>>Acid vs. Tuggummi : Twitchy Liquid Shit (mixing plastics)

daftcunt

3rd May 2004 17:22 UTC

mo oldskul

Shock Value

4th May 2004 02:00 UTC

My picks:

fsk - digital artist
shock value - source of power (I had to include one of mine :) )
skupers - dual flow
tuggummi - multiple orgasms
zamuz meets tuggummi - fat balls (wallpaper wannabe candy theme)

It's hard to define what "best" is or even what my favorites are, but I think these presets represent various styles of AVS well.

TomyLobo

4th May 2004 16:40 UTC

i'm trying to collect the presets you pick but it's not that easy... many times, bitmaps are missing :( please remember to submit your picks "including all required support files (bitmaps and such)"

NemoOrange

5th May 2004 01:12 UTC

tuomas - wired (still spellbinding after all these years)
yathosho - sakura (this pack will need some style!)
tonic - lumping (I feel like Tonic deserves some mention)
duo - warm freeform (simple & lovely)
fsk - zvezda (all of Pickin Dim 3 should be included as far as I'm concerned)

TomyLobo

5th May 2004 07:32 UTC

erm you've got 6 presets in your zip

NemoOrange

6th May 2004 02:47 UTC

gah, thanks for the heads up. Sorry, had to drop the el-vis pick for fsk.

vanish the dude

6th May 2004 06:51 UTC

Well, my picks:
01 hf - lush (i really like it, simple, but so cool)
02 amphirion - b.p.g.e.f. - echleon track rmx by vanish
03 nemoorange - surfacing 8 - my way to the garden rmx by vanish
(well, myself)
04 p-k - evil green thing (cool bumpy thingy)
05 tuggummi - fat balls - zamuz's remix (sweeeeet)

TomyLobo

6th May 2004 08:24 UTC

vanish, one of your files is not a .avs file ;)

Synth-C

7th May 2004 11:33 UTC

My picks:

Zxe - Into The Last Drop
Synth-C - The Construct (v1.2)
Synth-C - Ameta
Synth-C - Rollercoaster Dreams (Amphirion Remixed)
NemoOrange - Clockwork

Synth-C

7th May 2004 11:35 UTC

Damn, forgot to attach.

blazer1504

7th May 2004 14:16 UTC

duo - alienated (evilrice trinity tron remix) (awesome remix imo)

zamuz - bing bang (first I picked 'rough n smooth' from zamuz but I think this got better response..)

nemoorange - the light of speed (first thought of building blocks but since it's mentioned already...still a fab preset)

tuggummi - shiny metal curves (so many great presets from tug.. I decided to stick with this, hypersexy and smooth preset)

unconed - silk strings (very responsive + looks very good)