starlon

12th October 2010 19:00 UTC

Superscope in WoW. :)
Here are two 32x32 sized superscopes. They're a little too much for the WoW client, but you can run one of these fine. Both at the same time and you can notice a difference. You might be able to get away with two or three render plugins chained -- 3 would be tough.. :)

Spiral
http://i.imgur.com/8KsEc.jpg

Swirlie Dots
http://i.imgur.com/LOPeA.jpg

Edit: Feel free to provide simple examples that may work with such a small visualization. I don't know the math involved. I have n=32 or so.

Warrior of the Light

12th October 2010 19:32 UTC

Sorry but I don't have a clue of what you're trying to accomplish.
Is this a question? if yes, what is the question?

starlon

12th October 2010 20:08 UTC

It's not really a question. I was just showing off. But if people want to help, they can provide real simple superscopes that fit in 32x32 worth of space, or perhaps 64x64 at most.

starlon

12th October 2010 21:19 UTC

The cool thing is this makes it possible to draw images in WoW, even if not animated. Just chain some superscopes together and there's an image. Or at least I think it can do this. I saw a car drawn from superscopes, and I believe I saw a dungeon crawler built from superscopes.

starlon

12th October 2010 23:37 UTC

Well, I should probably offer some test bed, huh? I guess this whole thing is more oriented to WoW players than anything. So I'm writing an addon called StarVisuals. It'll have AVS elements, and a scriptable image widget for drawing generic images.

Here's the project page if you're interested. You'll need to dig into the code to configure the superscope parameters. Currently there's no chaining render elements, and all that's available is superscope. I've started on Blur some.

Anyone play WoW? Want to draw something?

http://wow.curseforge.com/addons/starvisuals-1-0/

Warrior of the Light

13th October 2010 14:18 UTC

I suggest you check out this tutorial first. Also, download some more packs either here on winamp.com or deviantart. If you still think you're showing off with built-in effects that are about 10 years old you'd be quite surprised of the possibilities.

starlon

2nd November 2010 10:12 UTC

I've been reading some tips and tricks around the board. I found one preset and snatched one single superscope from it and here's the result. It dances around to random data, and then I mix up all its variables so it turns into a blob when there's a "beat", then moments later it returns to the visualization shown. Apparently I can show the disk at any angle. I haven't figured that out yet. I know it's a bit too heavy for general WoW usage, but it has its ooh and ahh factor. :)

http://i.imgur.com/w7pft.jpg

Yathosho

2nd November 2010 10:56 UTC

this is an AVS forum.. just saying

starlon

2nd November 2010 12:42 UTC

Well, this is AVS related. This forum is where I'm getting all of my information from. I mean it's Superscope. o.O What's wrong with showing off AVS spawn in the AVS forum? I think that's highly unfair to suggest I'm not welcome. But if you all insist I shove off, so be it. Pretty crappy if you ask me.

Edit: This is also where I'll send users, to search presets and your faqs. Am I welcome to do so? I doubt there'll be many users at all.

starlon

2nd November 2010 13:15 UTC

All I know is I'm certainly having a blast learning about all of this. Sorry if I get carried away with showing off.

Yathosho

2nd November 2010 21:58 UTC

you're right, i was a bit impulsive there. apologies!