Ned Decca

21st April 2008 05:24 UTC

winamp avs
ive been messing about with this for several hours,
Im not very good yet since i only started tonight, has anyone got any tips?

anyway, the quality isnt that good cause i used camtasia to record from my desktop, but check it out anyway and if you make them yourself i would appreciate some tips.

btw, this probably sucks....:rolleyes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8J6C61daHo

Ned Decca

21st April 2008 14:27 UTC

wow, sucks that much?

Mr_Nudge

21st April 2008 14:45 UTC

firstly, things move very slowly around here, don't be dissapointed if you dont get a reply for a week.
secondly, upload the preset file itself in a .zip

Ned Decca

21st April 2008 15:09 UTC

ahhh, ok
i know things move pretty slowly, but 38 replies and nothing?

i thought somebody would've said something.

anyway, heres the zip.

thanks

Mr_Nudge

21st April 2008 15:20 UTC

where to start..
there's a lot of things that need fixing.
firstly, never ever ever ever ever ever use an invert trans when clear every frame isn't checked. this is probably why after 20 seconds it just turns into a flashing screen.
also, try to smooth movements out as much as you can to get rid of jerkyness.
thridly, needs more colour. try to avoid 100% reds/greens/blues/yellows etc at all costs, they just look ugly unless used properly. aim for more muted pastel colours, and match them tastefully.
i think that's enough to work on for the moment.
good luck!

Ned Decca

21st April 2008 17:17 UTC

thanks mr nudge, looks like i'll be loading it up later and having a fiddle with the settings

Ned Decca

23rd April 2008 22:58 UTC

ok, been tweeking this up over a couple of hours and i also made another, both are way better, bit more fluid.

phoenix and royal arch avs
see what you think.

thank you

Mr_Nudge

24th April 2008 05:35 UTC

phoenix is looking better, royal arch doesn't display anything.
next what you should try, is removing everything that doesn't have a noticeable effect on the preset. with phoenix you can delete the first 10 or so effects.
the key is cleanness in your effects list = cleanness in your preset. also the more stuff you can kill, the faster your preset will run.
still need to work on those colours though. use colours that are very similar and then just one or two 'feature' colours.
one more thing, bass spin renders are awful, avoid them at all costs.
also, there's a couple of picture renders in there, are we missing a .bmp file? you'll need to include that as well

Ned Decca

24th April 2008 06:16 UTC

yes, i dont really like the bass spin effect on its own hence why its in the background, i was trying to simulate police car strobes

ok, didnt realise you had to include the images, thats probly why nothing worked on royal arch :rolleyes:

I'll include them next upload:up:

jheriko

24th April 2008 17:02 UTC

i assume the preset has no code at all?

my tip for you is to code. all the most impressive things are team efforts as well... at least imo.

e.g. the typical super awesome preset will have:

been made by PAK-9
using TomyLobo's triangle APE to render
a model loaded with my global variable manager APE
which is complimented with sprites rendered by UnConeD's Texer II

doing all of this is dependent on code and uses code that other avs artists have authored.

code is the key!

:)

Ned Decca

24th April 2008 18:26 UTC

code maybe the key but i wouldnt even know where to start with avs code.

i think im doing ok for a first time with this