Archive: Dedications


26th July 2004 12:12 UTC

Dedications
I had this idea recently and I cant decide if its a good idea or a real stinker. I was thinking about how there's quite a lot of :up:self appreciation:up: in the AVS community... now dont get me wrong, AVS only has a small community so it needs that to a certain extent . Then I got to thinking about dedications, presets people make to honor other artists that have inspired them in some way, its a nice gesture...

Then I though, wouldnt it be interesting to have a 'dedications pack', where people make a couple of AVS presets dedicated to artists who have inspired them or been in some way influential. Obviously some people would get a lot of dedications, but it would still be fun, people could make presets in the style of people they are dedicating to, and include a comment about how they have been helpful.

There are already loads of dedication presets out there, probably enough to make a pack out of :D Anyway, its just an idea, comments?


26th July 2004 12:34 UTC

Sounds like a good idea to me. :up:
Though would there be any limits to the number of dedications one person can make? uhm... i think my number of dedications i would like to make has atleast two digits...


26th July 2004 12:36 UTC

Well SOMEBODY has a high opinion of themself ;)


26th July 2004 12:38 UTC

i think my number of dedications i would like to make has atleast two digits...
Maybe i should've highlighted that for you :p

26th July 2004 12:43 UTC

Sounds like a good idea but i don't think it'll happen. People nowdays are just too lazy.


26th July 2004 12:45 UTC

Oops my bad, I scan read posts too much. :p


27th July 2004 12:31 UTC

i'm in :)


27th July 2004 16:21 UTC

yeah.. ill have a go

no promises :]


27th July 2004 16:23 UTC

Sounds like a great idea to me! I already have one made for Nemo Orange, I just need to touch it up a bit.


27th July 2004 16:47 UTC

Okay if a couple more people say they are in we'll make this a propper pack with a deadline.


27th July 2004 17:14 UTC

I usually just make what pops into my head. If I can come up with soemthing decent, I'm in.


27th July 2004 20:06 UTC

i cant be forced to make any preset at the moment but i would love to see a pack like this. maybe if the deadline allows it i enter with some, but if it is in august i probably wont.


27th July 2004 20:18 UTC

i cant be forced to make any preset
calm down, no ones forcing you!

Yea well enough interest appears to have been generated so why don't we say:

Deadline: August 31'st
Max Submissions: 4

And submit your entries to me:

international_man_of_mystery_12@yahoo.com

Unless you think we should post them here... thoughts? :up: :down:

27th July 2004 20:25 UTC

Mail is better, that way only one person (you pakkie) will have seen them all before it comes out. It's better for the element of surprise, trust me :)


28th July 2004 07:38 UTC

okay, i think i will be able to make a preset or two until then :)


28th July 2004 10:13 UTC

I've just made a appreciation preset for Paranoya, Tonic and Ernst, can I stick that in?


28th July 2004 12:59 UTC

nah just mail it to him.:)
i'll get started right away.


29th July 2004 06:05 UTC

I've just made a appreciation preset for Paranoya, Tonic and Ernst, can I stick that in?
gah, do you have to be difficult? Cant you just call it a dedication like everyone else. Yea just e-mail them to me.

29th July 2004 13:42 UTC

ah....i have my exams from 18th August :confused: will have to make the presets before.


30th July 2004 10:18 UTC

I know you asked for emails, but my account is acting up.


30th July 2004 14:15 UTC

I mean to say, these dont need to be totally new presets, if you have a kick-ass dedication preset from a previous pack feel free to include it. :)


30th July 2004 14:20 UTC

oh cool then i'll send some i made before.:)


20th August 2004 07:55 UTC

I hope noone has FORGOTTEN about this pack, the submissions are looking a little thin... pick up the pace people, less than a fortnight left.


20th August 2004 09:20 UTC

Forgotten & buried :hang:


20th August 2004 09:58 UTC

uhh....not gettin enough time :( exams are up


21st August 2004 08:45 UTC

well, i would to jump into this too, but I have one question.
PAK-9, you said that there could be only Max Submissions:4, this means for my AVS, or for the AVS in the final pack ?


22nd August 2004 17:08 UTC

[sarcasm] Yea its gunna be an AVS pack with 4 presets in it :weird: [/sarcasm]

What it means is one person can submit up to 4 presets to the pack, no more.

So you (yes you) can submit up to 4 presets, get crackin.


22nd August 2004 21:16 UTC

Hmm.... lessee, got 2 "Tonic's Cool" presets from my 3rd pack, got "Yet Another Tonic Style Preset 2" in my 4th pack, aaaand.... I used a heavily modded El-Vis scope in my 3d Scope 3 preset from my 4th pack... Does that count as a tribute preset ? :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :p :D :D :D :D :D.

Shame I saw this thread just now, I would've done Nixa and Stardust tribute presets (and 2 more for someone I would think of)... not kidding there, kinda feel like making presets again. Unfortunately?, I'm going to Spain next week, and have no time.


23rd August 2004 05:41 UTC

Yea well I might end up extending the deadline anyway to give people more time :rolleyes:


24th August 2004 20:13 UTC

sorry, but I won't have time to make anything (my life is too much fucked up atm) so please don't count on me. thanks for understanding.


27th August 2004 10:33 UTC

So how many people so far have actually submitted stuff then? I know I have, but how many others?


28th August 2004 16:39 UTC

not me :( still not enough time


29th August 2004 14:34 UTC

So how many people so far have actually submitted stuff then?
Lets just say "not enough". I need at least a few more people to pitch in. I'll keep submissions open indefinately until I get enough.

29th August 2004 17:59 UTC

Thanks man. My exmas are over now and i'll mail my submissions hopefully soon :)


31st August 2004 11:33 UTC

i told you people wouldn't bother (not trying to sound like a little bitch or anything, 'twas a joke...)


31st August 2004 19:23 UTC

i'd like to contribute some presets, but i won't have internet-access from home for at least another week. but i have electricity since yesterday :p


1st September 2004 03:21 UTC

Its going to be more than a week until its released, so feel free to produce submissions.... that is when you are able :confused: As long as you can plug a PC into the wall, thats all that matters


3rd September 2004 22:25 UTC

I sended you some AVS, I hope you'l like them.

SEE YAAA!!!


4th September 2004 02:27 UTC

Already started with ULWannabe packs :)


5th September 2004 09:16 UTC

Originally posted by unripeLemon
Already started with ULWannabe packs :)
huh? That post was too cryptic.

8th September 2004 06:00 UTC

:eek: DEADLINE! dun dun daaaaaah! :eek:

Friday 17th Sept. Please have your submissions sent to me by then... I'd still like more submissions before I release the pack so please don't give up if your planning one. The deadline isn't going to be extended again because I'm going back to university soon after that.

And if a certain someone making a certain intro that was claimed to pwn a certain arse is reading this.... make sure you tell me if your not going to finish it in time.


9th September 2004 11:10 UTC

And if a certain someone making a certain intro that was claimed to pwn a certain arse is reading this.... make sure you tell me if your not going to finish it in time.


and who might that be ? :rolleyes:

10th September 2004 05:32 UTC

Quote:


20th September 2004 20:23 UTC

So , when it is going to be released?


24th September 2004 16:42 UTC

er.... yea soz about the delay, you can still send presets anyone who's interested ( please :| ), in the meantime I need to make an intro and redo a couple of presets I lost, so gimmme a week or so.

Also, where does everyone think I should release it... Wherever I put it (devart, wa.com) it will be under my name which is a bit naff. Plus whenever I submit stuff to wa.com something goes horribly wrong.... just try searching for my packs :rolleyes:


25th September 2004 06:57 UTC

Post it everywhere, here, DA ...


25th September 2004 12:10 UTC

I don't really mind that it's under your name, but if the wa-com thing is a serious problem then let someone else do that.


25th September 2004 14:41 UTC

How about under the VExternal categorey at Visbot?


25th September 2004 21:01 UTC

Originally posted by PAK-9
Plus whenever I submit stuff to wa.com something goes horribly wrong.... just try searching for my packs :rolleyes:
i had the impression that the chance of a fuckup gets reduced, when one selects a secondary category (i.e. visualizations) in the upload dialog.

25th September 2004 21:49 UTC

Yathosho, can't be...
I've selected only a primary category for my last two packs (extra dimension and singles) and they worked just fine.


25th September 2004 23:54 UTC

then read again what i wrote


26th September 2004 18:09 UTC

Then the problem is you.


26th September 2004 20:12 UTC

Yes, well, sometimes avs+visualisations doesn't work.... so I usually change both categorys to, and than it always works. If you selected just the primary, maybe the reviewer added the secondary. Or maybe you're just lucky.


26th September 2004 20:19 UTC

this is offtopic, you don't have to read this, so don't even waste your time bitching about it ;)

doggy dog: i realized the reviews of plugins are getting pretty negative.

example 1
example 2

though i must admit, that i don't like the presets, i think you have some responsibility as a representive of nullsoft (you might not be employed, but still you do a job for them). you are discouraging people and are too subjective in your critic (i.e. "unremarkable", "boring", "ugly"). imagine that these people might use winamp just because of the plugins (like me for instance!), discouraging them the way you do, these people might look out for another player - and that certainly is not in the sense of nullsoft.


27th September 2004 16:58 UTC

this is an offtopic bitch about yath's offtopic bitch
although "unremarkable", "boring" and "ugly" could be construed as subjective they give people an idea of what to expect in a pack. Presonally I'd prefer subjectivism to an elaborate objective description of the pack in abstract and vague terms which frankly is the only alternative. If every pack is just described, it makes it hard to know if you will really like them. Just my opinion.


27th September 2004 18:10 UTC

Think of it this way... I get loads of single presets submitted here, and packs with bad installers. I used to write in every single review that they should make a pack instead, and that they should at least make the installers with proper paths and everything. And still, I get more, and often from the same "authors". You'd think they would get the point....

I agree, those reviews might have been discouraging. But maybe they encouraged that person to try harder - to make presets that the staff won't think of as ugly or boring. It really depends on the individual. Maybe if I used abstract and vague terms (and I definitely could), the author won't understand me, especially if he/she is a newbie to avs. Or simply doesn't know english that well. I think everyone understands "boring" and "ugly".

I could write far more, but I'm too tired now.


And please.... that italian guy gave his preset a 5.


28th September 2004 19:13 UTC

Anyway, that italian guy, whose preset you set as an example, actually took my advice and released a pack, and he claims he can do even better. Would he have done the same if I haven't gone hard on him in that review. Doubt it ?


This would've been an edit, but...


29th September 2004 17:50 UTC

I think thats enough off topic


30th September 2004 03:40 UTC

reading all that made my head hurt :(


30th September 2004 11:46 UTC

@ pak-9 (and to get ontopic again:)
when do you think the pack is finished? I'm dying to have a view on the presets!


30th September 2004 17:14 UTC

Gimme a week or so, its basically finished but I'd still like so see another person submit some presets. I might give the finished article to tug or someone to nsis it up and submit it cos I'm a bit busy with my studies.


30th September 2004 18:20 UTC

Oh, don't talk about studies.. here the next semester starts in 3 weeks. Then i probably have no time for avs anymore...


6th October 2004 16:56 UTC

It is done

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/11195425/


6th October 2004 21:37 UTC

Cool Pack! It was worth to wait.
Thanks for your efforts Pak-9! :up:


7th October 2004 09:48 UTC

Can some one do me a BIG (well not that big) favour? I can't download .exe or .zip archives. So can some one either .rar it or rename the extension to .doc or some thing and send it too:

z0t.mw@hummersknott.org.uk

There'll be a cookie in it for ya. (2 cookies for someone who sends me the AVS programming guide too.)

note: cookies not real


7th October 2004 10:11 UTC

just send a mail!

by the way: i like chocolate cookies most! ;)


8th October 2004 17:20 UTC

huh. so finally it is out :rolleyes: cool.
/me will check it out right away.



Originally posted by [Ishan]

and who might that be ? :rolleyes: [/B] Just a certain someone ;)