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| Hi, was playing around with particles... please try and let me know the FPS and your GFX card... many thanks Might make this into the ultimate star field screen saver. In fact the star field is a bit clever can have as many stars as you like WITHOUT ANY slowdown! [edit] Images removed during development... |
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| I get 6fps on my laptop with S3 graphics :) |
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| Very nice. 85 FPS - same as my monitor. |
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| Is it a tunnel with texture mapping? |
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| @EdzUp, woah! Oh well sorry it's not so low spec cards I guess... @JazzieB, ta - more coming, random planets etc etc @AngelDaniel, yes a cylinder with 7 texture blends cleverly done to simulate depth |
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| @AngelDaniel, yes a cylinder with 7 texture blends cleverly done to simulate depth That's the bottleneck for lower spec cards, I'm guessing. Blending with so many layers is emulated on cards that don't support it, I believe = slow.Screenies look nice, though. :) |
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| Well for once this is written for me and my spec. Sorry. |
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| Very cool effect, Boiled Sweets. Got constant 60fps at 1920x1200 (nVidia 7600GS). |
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| 11 FPS on GF4 MX4000 128 MB, P4 2.4 1MB, 1GB RAM, WinXP ... Nice effect ! |
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| This looks exciting. |
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| 19 fps on my radeon 9200 and pentium 4 processor 2.66GHz Impressive |
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| 43 fps on my Radeon 9600 256MB, p4 1.7GHz On my screen there's a hiccup/break in the animation about every second, very nice effect though. |
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| Very nice! 20fps with GeForce 6200 and 1.5Ghz |
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| I repeat the "Very nice"! 1600x1200x32 60fps same as monitor) one problem, maybe... one of the particles stopped when it hit the edge of the screen and just sat there... actually it slooowly moved off taking about 2 minutes to be completely off the screen. |
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| @everyone, thanks for the positive feedback. I'm tweaking it so it's not so gpu intensive and added nice active plasma and planets. Next version coming soon. |
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| 60 fps 1280x1024x32 (Geforce GT6600) Good stuff Boiled! |
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| Hey Joe, did you do a space saver? |
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| It's going too fast for me to be able to count the frames.. Oh wait, F10, right... 60Fps (same as monitor) @ 1440x900 on nvidia Go7600 in a DualCore T5500 (2x1.6Ghz). And it's using only like 20% of cpu time!.. |
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| @everyone, would you like options to be able to configure this? For example, amount of stars, star speed etc? Also how much would you pay for this (if at all)? |
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| I think most of us aren't people who buy screensavers. anyhow, normal PC users probably would pay a max of 5 or 10 dollars for a screensaver, if it's something extraordinary to them. Personally I think you should rather try to sell your effects to movie makers. Remember not so long ago effects like these were sold for millions, eg. in the "Stargate" movie. |
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| Looks really nice. 71 Fps 1280x1024x32, P4 3.0Ghz, 1Gb Ram, Nvidia 7600 GS (AGP) |
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| 20fps Looks cool |
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| looks cool, not tested it though... |
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| steady 37 FPS on Athlon 2800+ with Radeon 9600 Pro 128MB |
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| 16 fps on 6200 with sempron 2200 und 9c |
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| So now what? |
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| 75 FPS with an ATI PCI Express x800 This is pretty cool, Boiled Sweets. Nice job :) |
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| 12/13 FPS Normal 29/30 FPS Wireframe ATI Radeon 9200 Semperon 2800+ (2.005GHz) FPS fixed at 60 (My PC is fairly busy) |
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| Steady 85fps 3.20Ghz CPU 2GB RAM Sapphire Radeon X800XL (with 256MB) IPete2. |
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| 60 fps, really cool. |
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| This project is back on as I want to productise the various unfinished projects I have neglected whilst finishing other stuff. Gonna add asteroids plus some configuration options then stick it on the old site and ask a few dollars for it. FYI: Other projects soon to be completed... 1. Stopple (Bloxorz remake) 2. qoob |
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| It explodes spectacularly here with a BSOD. P3 1.1GHz, 512MB RAM, 16MB shared graphics, WinXP + SP2. |
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| @Gfk - REALLY????? |
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| 85 fps on GeForce 7600GT |
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| Some updates coming... 1. The starburst is more organic now - changes over time 2. Asteroids! 3. UFOs Anything else you would like to see? |
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| 5fps on one the most popular graphics card any typical end user would have on their machine. (Intel 82845G) However, it would probably run alot better at a lower resolution. 640x480, 800x600. Looks good though! |
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| p4 2.4 9800 pro 1gb ram 60fps constant very pretty :D |
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| I get 9fps on my GeForce fx5200. But it is also running at 1440x900. Any way to decrease the resolution? I bet it would run much faster at a lower setting. |
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| Working on the config side of things - will be very flexible, please bear with me, I'll post a new version as soon as... |
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Getting there - major tweaks - this runs like a nutter on my dev laptop! New version coming soon! |
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| This looks much more interesting :P |
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| Nice pic, what's this being coded in? |
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| Blitz3d |
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| OK go grab it here: www.boiledsweets.com/Starburst Whats New? * Installer / uninstaller * Is now a screen saver * Added stars * Added asteroids * Added loads of configurable options * Tweaked code - now runs faster! |
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| Excellent job. Runs fine (20-30fps) on my low end spec dev machine in resolutions up to 1024x768. :) |
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| Great job Boiled! Suddenly I have switched screensaver ;) |
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| Already started on the next update... Swirling galaxies Space rockets Different space boxes |
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| Here ya go... Galaxies...  Rockets...  |
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| Careful ,don't lose the realisim of it, the rockets look very cartoony, generic. I would consider: 1) Comets 2) Shooting stars 3) Flaming meteors (space debris, etc..) Lose the man made devices, but if you must, keep it to a few rockets, satallites, etc. AND ofcourse the occasional and I mean hardly ever, UFO. :) :) :) |
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| I was almost overcome with the excitement of the screenshots. One could even be forgiven for not wanting to run it - in case one was hit in the face by a projectile. |
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| Nice job, looks like you used VB for the windows front end as I do. Settings are nicely laid out. |
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| @MGE Comets = done :-)  A rocket will appear very, very occasionally. |
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| Nice stuff! Runs very well on my system. smooooooth! |
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| Anything else I should add? Currently has... Star field, stars, galaxies, comets, rockets, asteroids. |
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| Just my .02... (looking at the screen dumps..latest demo doesn't have the latest feaures shown.) 1) Flaming trails should be coming off of rocks, space debris, in the pic they look like normal particles with trails, the leading object should be easily identifiable (comet, rock, etc.) followed by the flaming trails. And perhaps just fire colors (red, yellow, etc) instead of the multi colored trail?? 2) UFO's - seriously, this would be cool and entertaining, if done correctly. Just once in a while surprise the viewer with a ufo flying around. Doesn't even have to be in the same view as the 3d objects, just let it zoom around once in a while. The user would be like "what the..did you see that??" 3) Option for mouse interaction. (Would cause the ESC to exit) Mouse Y controls speed of flight, Mouse X controls spin. (left of middle spin faster left, right of middle spin faster right, middle area no spin) 4) Every 20-30 seconds or so, warp speed for a bit just to randomize the viewing experience. 5) Option to load custom images and view them in the screensaver. Users would love to see their own face, or their own space images/sprites in the screensaver. 6) IMHO, I think $9.95 would be a better price. This is really a cool screensaver, good job! |
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| [edit] @MGE, many thanks or your input. Just my .02... (looking at the screen dumps..latest demo doesn't have the latest feaures shown.) No not yet implementing.Expect a new improved version soon! 1) Flaming trails should be coming off of rocks, space debris, in the pic they look like normal particles with trails, the leading object should be easily identifiable (comet, rock, etc.) followed by the flaming trails. And perhaps just fire colors (red, yellow, etc) instead of the multi colored trail?? Looking at various images of various comets they don't have a visible rock at the front. Also they seem to be different colours, blue etc. So I'll probably leave mine "as is" 2) UFO's - seriously, this would be cool and entertaining, if done correctly. Just once in a while surprise the viewer with a ufo flying around. Doesn't even have to be in the same view as the 3d objects, just let it zoom around once in a while. The user would be like "what the..did you see that??" Coming in next update. 3) Option for mouse interaction. (Would cause the ESC to exit) Mouse Y controls speed of flight, Mouse X controls spin. (left of middle spin faster left, right of middle spin faster right, middle area no spin) Will have a play with this.... 4) Every 20-30 seconds or so, warp speed for a bit just to randomize the viewing experience. Coming in next version 5) Option to load custom images and view them in the screensaver. Users would love to see their own face, or their own space images/sprites in the screensaver. Will have a play with this. 6) IMHO, I think $9.95 would be a better price. I think you might be right :-) |
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| It took more than 2 minutes just to get the task manager up on my laptop - I just quit and turned off the power |
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| Those comets have inspired me to go and see if Voodoo Lights still exists. |
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