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man. i hope some others can get some stuff in. just 1 person has submitted something so far? :-( wish i could code. darn.
would love one of those adapters. bein' poor, well.... i'm lucky to have an xbox and pc :-)
good luck to you all, hope more of you can get some stuff in! been lookin' foward to this addition of xbmc
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i've added my first entry to this compo. the matrix trails screensaver (patch id: 1153010). it's like the one that existed before the api change. this one however uses a font texture instead of a real font. in the configuration file you can change a few things. among others are number of rows, number of columns, character delay and a few more.
seems like this was requested quite a bit in the forums so i hope you all like it.
cheers
joakim e.
Current project Plane9 a 3d music visualizer/sound responsive screensaver. Author of the planestate, matrix trails, asteroids and ping pong xbmc screensavers.
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MrC
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added my screen saver, shade worm, patch 1153173. need to rebuild xbmc with the included directx8.h and unrar bin.rar to the screensaver folder on your xbox. just got in from the pub so let me know if i have messed anything up. :o
cheers
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looking really great guys! there has clearly been a lot of thought and effort gone into them - well done!
thanks siw + mrc for the exports - they've been added to cvs now, so that people can enjoy your screensavers right away.
cheers,
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finally my forth and definitivily my last screensaver to go into this compo. if my clock is correct so is there still 1 hour and 2 minutes left but lets not cut it too close. :d
the screensaver is asteroids (patch id: 1153859). it's a simple version of the asteroids game. however in this one there is a simple ai that controls the ship and get's rid of the asteroids. when there is no more left (or a max time is reached) everything is reset and it starts all over again. started working on it about 5 hours ago so it's done in a rush. no configuration file at all.
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thanks pike! screensavers are fun to write and it's nice to give something back to xbmc.
on the subject of easy i would like to thank warren an extra time for his testxbs framework. without it i would never have been able to do all my screensavers. if it isn't already in cvs it would probably be a good help to others if it went into it so others can easily find and use it in the future.
one thing i missed while doing these screensavers is a button to quickly start them. someone that has some knowlege on the inner workings of xbmc might be able to add a button or some other form of quick preview of the screensavers.
now we have atleast 8 screensavers (in addition to the standard ones) so my guess is that people would want to try them quickly. right now you have to wait at least one minute to see a single screensaver.
Current project Plane9 a 3d music visualizer/sound responsive screensaver. Author of the planestate, matrix trails, asteroids and ping pong xbmc screensavers.