TomyLobo

23rd May 2004 02:53 UTC

Home of the Dragons
Here's a little preset I made :)

Too-DAMN-Much

23rd May 2004 05:33 UTC

pretty good i think, but it could possibly use a little more movement, and the fps could be a tiny bit better.

vanish the dude

23rd May 2004 14:47 UTC

that's good, but still there's a beatless scope (correct me if i'am not right)... presets is really good, these gold fractals looks cool for sure.

hungryskull

23rd May 2004 23:25 UTC

I like it.;)

zamuz

24th May 2004 00:16 UTC

that's really cool, love it. the only thing i would do to it is modify the scope's rotation so it doesn't get too close to the screen, right now when that happens the line width does some ugly stuff. other than that, it's amazing, great work :)

TomyLobo

24th May 2004 12:56 UTC

atm i'm rewriting the iterator to make it 1pass instead of 3 pass :) that's gonna be quite a bit faster... also, i'm going to precache the coordinates in the gmegabuf instead of the turtle commands. that will take up more gmegabuf space but that doesnt matter since a 500,000 point SSC isn't running fluently anyway :)
it will improve the performance though :)
in that coordinate precaching algorithm i'm gonna determine the "center of masses" of the whole curve and let it rotate around that instead of some crappy none-centered point as it is now :)

TomyLobo

24th May 2004 23:49 UTC

Rewrite is done here is the result :)
It has about 5 fps more for me and is also more nicely centered :)

your-dentist

26th May 2004 10:44 UTC

This is probably the best fractal AVS preset I've ever seen. I looks very bumpy-3d-ish.
BTW: I can read this mini message though I'm not very close to the screen.

piR

27th May 2004 00:47 UTC

Well. After looking at this, I feel a little bit ridiculous with my Julia fractal :(
Very good work TomyLobo !

BTW, you wrote 26 fps somewhere. Is this the speed on your computer ? It runs only at 9 fps for me ... (Pentium III 933 MHz)

TomyLobo

27th May 2004 02:47 UTC

hmm you could decrease the levels in the Init part of the first effect list.

btw i have an athlon xp 1700+ :)

Yathosho

27th May 2004 05:24 UTC

most impressive (19fps @ 480x360)

hungryskull

28th May 2004 01:08 UTC

What kind of processor are you running? I could only get less that 14fps at about that size on my 2.5GHZ P4.

piR

28th May 2004 12:16 UTC

The difference can also be in the display parameters (wait for retrace and the others).
I have also noticed that reducing the Winamp window (into a single bar) can improve the fps ...

TomyLobo

29th May 2004 21:10 UTC

you mean windowshade mode? hmm could possibly be if you use modern skins.
modern skins drain a lot of cpu power

same counts for hungryskull :)

another possibility would be differences in RAM speed/quality and mainboard quality
or simply resource-hogging background apps :)

NemoOrange

31st May 2004 05:14 UTC

Really great scope. The concept itself is kinda boring, but watching those great colors is a delight. Awesome to see you finally submitting some presets of your own, I hope to see some spectacular work!

TomyLobo

31st May 2004 20:43 UTC

thanks :) as soon as i find the time/ideas i'll try to make a new preset ;)

hungryskull

1st June 2004 00:40 UTC

Weird, I just got 20fps at 512*384 fullscreen.

Pixelcraft

2nd June 2004 12:40 UTC

can't see a thing, except for a green line in the middle of the screen.

It's probably because I haven't been here in so long that I don't have the updated .apes or something.....:igor:

TomyLobo

2nd June 2004 17:45 UTC

if you just see a green line then you are probably missing the newest winamp/avs version
current is winamp 5.03 and avs 2.81b
it supports arrays, which i use a lot in that preset :) (coordinate storage, cloud diffusion)
here's the devart link for it, which includes a screenshot on which you see what you're missing ;)
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/7769089/

Shylent

4th June 2004 00:46 UTC

I know this probably wont make any sense and will just make people yell at me, but still...
Can anyone give me a link to some place where I can download the most up-to-date vis_avs.dll (cant download the whole winapm 5.03 - VERY bad connection here and horrible connection speed), because I cant see anything except a blue line. My avs version is 2.80.
not the best 1st post, isnt it?

UnConeD

4th June 2004 10:27 UTC

Don't hijack other threads, post your own.

Shylent

4th June 2004 21:41 UTC

oh... I expected such an reply. I havent hijacked this thread, I posted this request because I have seen the screenshots of this preset and I really want to watch it so I asked people to help me out, so I can watch it. Made no sense I guess :(

TomyLobo

5th June 2004 00:46 UTC

i didn't find AVS downloadable seperately anywhere yet :(
seems like you have to download the whole package

Shylent

5th June 2004 02:28 UTC

Ok, thanks TomyLobo, I am seriously sorry for posting in your thread, heh it will take me like 2 hours or so (if I wont get a disconnect, of course) to d/l it. Thanks anyway!

Shock Value

6th June 2004 04:49 UTC

Very nice idea and great implementation! I'd like to see a full pack from you, Tomy. I know you've got some original stuff up your sleave.

Dragon-Dreams

12th June 2004 16:08 UTC

Incredible work.
Go Dragons! ;) :P

Warrior of the Light

12th June 2004 18:05 UTC

If it helps, I uploaded the vis_avs.dll here

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Couldn't get a working link directly to the actual file somehow so I had to make a little extra page :mad:
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