Unfortunately this may only be interesting for Wind95/98 users.
Sorry for that.

I posted an image of a tentacle in the images-group a while ago.
I managed to get it moving but the animation as such wasn't really very
interesting, so I made a screensaver out of it which you can download at
http://www.xs4all.nl/~remcodek/download.html#tentacle.
Let me know what you think.

BTW I have now made quite a lot of savers based on POV-animations. If
anyone is interested in having his or her animation made into a
screensaver somehow contact me (but don't expect TOO much 8]).

Remco

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Remco

It's very cool and creepy.

The problem I have with your screensavers (and others)
is that they create extra windows and can hang my system
if I'm running something else (say... PovRay).

As a fan of them (your src's) I will say this.
I wish they had more configurable options.
Like with psych, some of the patterns I especially
like and would like to choose them to use.

I don't know how difficult this is, my attempts at
writing screensavers did not get very far.

>BTW I have now made quite a lot of savers based on POV-animations. If
>anyone is interested in having his or her animation made into a
>screensaver somehow contact me (but don't expect TOO much 8]).


Wow, that is really nice.

Peter

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Remco de Korte wrote:

> BTW I have now made quite a lot of savers based on POV-animations. If
> anyone is interested in having his or her animation made into a
> screensaver somehow contact me (but don't expect TOO much 8]).

What tools are needed to make screen savers from either multiple images
or from animations ?

Is it a simple process or is it a very invloved process ?

Just curious.

-- 
Ken Tyler -  1300+ Povray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/

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Very nice!

As a suggestion (don't know whether it's possible), semi-transparent shadows
would be nice thrown by the tentacles on the desktop, offset a little x and
a little -y from the tentacle.

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Ken wrote:
> 
> Remco de Korte wrote:
> 
> > BTW I have now made quite a lot of savers based on POV-animations.
> If
> > anyone is interested in having his or her animation made into a
> > screensaver somehow contact me (but don't expect TOO much 8]).
> 
> What tools are needed to make screen savers from either multiple
> images
> or from animations ?
> 
There are several tools on the market that will create screensavers from
series of images, which means you should also be able to feed them
animations (as sequences).
Most of the screensavers produced that way will play like a slide show,
or show bouncing images. I can't say much more really because I've never
tried them.

> Is it a simple process or is it a very invloved process ?

It is in essence rather simple. A screensaver is not much more then a
graphical program with a few extra provisions to make it work as a
screensaver. The big step is to rename the compiled program from an .EXE
file to a .SCR file.
Of course you can _make_ it very complicated by wanting to do
complicated things. I've often cursed myself for that...

> 
> Just curious.
> 
> --
> Ken Tyler -  1300+ Povray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing
> Links:
> http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html
> http://www.povray.org/links/

Remco

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I realized I should've posted this in the windows-group so I moved it
there (I hope).

Peter Warren wrote:
> 
> Remco
> 
> It's very cool and creepy.

Thank you.
It's sort of applied POV-amethics...

> 
> The problem I have with your screensavers (and others)
> is that they create extra windows and can hang my system
> if I'm running something else (say... PovRay).

Hmm.
I didn't realize that could be a problem. What version of Windows are
you using?

> 
> As a fan of them (your src's) I will say this.
> I wish they had more configurable options.
> Like with psych, some of the patterns I especially
> like and would like to choose them to use.

I can understand that. At first adding a config-screen seemed like too
much trouble to me 8) but as it turns out it isn't. With Psych the
pattern is completely random so it'd probably be hard to configure that
(other then let you choose the randseed).

Also, the savers I have on my downloadpage are often not much more then
a demonstration of some sort of programming or graphics trick. 
Of course I hope some people enjoy them.

> 
> I don't know how difficult this is, my attempts at
> writing screensavers did not get very far.
> 
In most cases it's rather simple. It just involves using an inifile,
something I didn't like to do at first but it is quite simple.

With the tentacle saver however I can't think of anything to configure.
I've left out the irritating tunes I tend to stick on some savers and
other then that... Any suggestions?

> >BTW I have now made quite a lot of savers based on POV-animations. If
> >anyone is interested in having his or her animation made into a
> >screensaver somehow contact me (but don't expect TOO much 8]).
> 
> Wow, that is really nice.
> 
> Peter

Remco

PS I added another screensaver to my page (for the StarTrek fans) where
the Enterprise E encounters a Bird of Prey. I'd welcome comments,
especially on the (propably totally wrong) proportions.
URL is http://www.xs4all.nl/~remcodek/download.html#dogfight

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Tom Melly wrote:
> 
> Very nice!
> 
> As a suggestion (don't know whether it's possible), semi-transparent
> shadows
> would be nice thrown by the tentacles on the desktop, offset a little
> x and
> a little -y from the tentacle.

Thanks, I'll keep it in mind. It isn't really hard to do, it'll just
slow the thing down considerably I think. I'll let you know when it's
done.

Remco

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