Current Ideas...

[rabidhamster]

This is quick list of ideas i grabbed off the old MessageBoard...

James Bond Scenes (ole)
Stupidly long fade time option (Manny)
Proper winamp playlist support (theos)
3D Glasses Support (asterix)
CubeField that didn't move in just Z (Nathan)
WinAmp 3 support (loads of people )
Multi-monitor support (loads again)
Standalone Support
Line-in
Current Song title overlay
Animated GIF (DasRoach)
Texture Morpher (Chris)
Dancers
Flame effects (sean)

and there are more.
Any ideas/suggestions are welcome, or any ideas sparked off by the above. I'll try and implement things I think I can easily.

[JoeMoto]

It would be handy to have a function to mirror the renderings.
In that way you can place the projector behind the projection screen.

[p1llz]

Hmm make some funky cartoon looking visuals.
Maybe With the animation work done for your r4 dancers we could make an authentic manga dancer ( love japanimation)

[rabidhamster]

Cheers.

Mirroring should be easy to do on this - i'll see if i can implement it.

You can get decent Cartoon rendering by changing the environment map you use to do stuff. Often there is an outline too, but thats more tricky. The envmap you use is for example a black texture with a grey circle in it, then a white circle inside that. Try it and see what happens

Since R4's pretty modular, if i don't get around to implementing it, someone else may well produce a pixel shader to do cartoon rendering. I'll do my best to implement cool stuff though

[p1llz]

[Chris]

JoeMoto,

If you're looking to do mirror'd renderings right away try this. Render a whole scene to a texture then set blit.x1=1,blit.y1=-1,blit.x2=-1,blit.y2=1

Unfortunately you'd have to do this in a custom scene for every scene you used, and I don't think it would reverse announcements.

I've used this trick a little to reverse textures, or renderings of the snakecube.

[imax]

How about custom announcements?

I'd like an ability to change Font and Color.

Maybe a bit more complicated:

Use Formular-Engine to define Letter-Path for scrolling (Like in all these Demos). For instance Bouncing or in sine-wave or something.

imax

[rabidhamster]

I like that - Well, i have a custom scene called RENDER at the moment that you can feed a load of coordinates to and it will draw shapes. I could make a new one/extend it so you specified a character, and where to draw it.

Besides, there are quite a few nice effects you can do with characters anyway. Cheers for that - i'll try and put it in when my exams are finally sorted

you think:
X,Y,(Z),Rotation,Width,Height
would be ok? The font would have to be specified on a per-scene basis, but there isn't much of a problem there.

I could also add a camera position, so you can do flybys of text.

- Gordon

[Guest]

How about some sort of mechanical sphere thing. Sort of like the machine from 'time machine' or even the evil machine in 'thirteen ghosts' that creates the axis of evil. That would look goddam awesome and seems to fit in with the Rabid Hamster look and feel plus opengl friendly?

What about sperm going through a tunnel?

Or a psycadellic butterfly?

Fk Im lazy - I should be making all this wierd stuff!

[`asterix]

How about some sort of mechanical sphere thing. Sort of like the machine from 'time machine' or even the evil machine in 'thirteen ghosts' that creates the axis of evil. That would look goddam awesome and seems to fit in with the Rabid Hamster look and feel plus opengl friendly?

What about sperm going through a tunnel?

Or a psycadellic butterfly?

Fk Im lazy - I should be making all this wierd stuff!

[rabidhamster]

Well, Rovastar may well be working of a psycadellic butterfly, from one of the NeHe tutorials. I'm not quite sure what you mean about the mechanical sphere though?

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[rabidhamster]

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