Home of the Dragons

[TomyLobo]

Here's a little preset I made

[Too-DAMN-Much]

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]

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]

I like it.

[zamuz]

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]

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]

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

[your-dentist]

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]

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]

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

btw i have an athlon xp 1700+

[Yathosho]

most impressive (19fps @ 480x360)

[hungryskull]

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

[piR]

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]

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]

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]

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

[hungryskull]

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

[Pixelcraft]

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.....

[TomyLobo]

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]

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]

Don't hijack other threads, post your own.

[Shylent]

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]

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

[Shylent]

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]

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]

Incredible work.
Go Dragons! :P

[Warrior of the Light]

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
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