Dreams

[Lin Evans]

http://www.lin-evans.org/dreams/dreams.zip (21 meg)

http://www.lin-evans.org/dreams/dreams.htm

Lin

[Ken Cox]

LIN

Roy Orbison at his best

I thought you might have had some snow falling - either outside or the snow ball on the table

does this mean your shows in the future will be full screen or is that just one of my dreams ?

very relaxing

ken

[Lin Evans]

LOL - Put your glasses on! Actually, the snow is falling inside the snowglobe and the moon is rising, but because it's scaled proportional to reality, the snow is difficult to see inside the globe. Perhaps I should make giant snowflakes inside the globe - it's a thought.....

Just for you, I've added snow outside the windows - download the exe again...

So - I made the snowflakes a good deal larger inside the globe .... Let me know what you think... The modified video is uploading, but being over 100 meg, it's taking a while - LOL...

Finally uploaded - the additional material makes it necessary to start then stop the video for a bit to allow some preload depending on the speed of the broadband. I need about an inch and a half of "gas gage" before starting to have uninterrupted play on my DSL. It's one of the problems with doing animation on video. The exe plays fine for me, but "could" be a bit jerky for some with marginal video cards....

Best regards,

Lin

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LIN

Roy Orbison at his best

I thought you might have had some snow falling - either outside or the snow ball on the table

does this mean your shows in the future will be full screen or is that just one of my dreams ?

very relaxing

ken

[Ken Cox]

snow falling in and out, moon rising and fire and candle synced to music -- you da man

the cooler ran it like a dream with the onboard graphics card

ken

[colin hill]

Hi Lin,

That was very good and very "cool", if you will excuse the pun.

My exe version ran very smoothly, but the video version runs for a few seconds, then freezes and then same again.

I have a powerful graphics card, so could be my broadband connection.

Keep them coming as I am sure you are giving some members a good idea as to what can be done.

Regards,

Colin

[Lin Evans]

Hi Colin,

Thanks - I learned something today about the involvement of "video cards" in an animated video. On my development system which has a fairly powerful video card (nVidia 8088 GT) everything on exe and the video is smooth.

On my older system with a somewhat limited video card (nVidia 8086GT) the exe plays with smooth animated snow, but with very jerky fire motion. On the video, the snow is smooth as well, but the fire is not. It's "better" than on the executable, but still not nearly as smooth as it "should" appear. The difference tells me that the video card must be optimal to mix video and still animations in the same frame even when everything is converted to video. The flames and general background are a 1280x720 video and the snow animations for both the snowglobe and snow through the windows is done as an overlay with animated stills via PNG and masking. So the less powerful video card is struggling to handle the HD video "and" still animations together. The 8086 card handles "normal" video such as DVD's quite well, but struggles with this video comprised of a combination of animated still and HD video.

To get your video to run uninterrupted, start it then immediately hit the pause. Let the "gas gage" advance about a third of the way across then click on "play" and it "should" play through without interruption.

Best regards,

Lin

Hi Lin,

That was very good and very "cool", if you will excuse the pun.

My exe version ran very smoothly, but the video version runs for a few seconds, then freezes and then same again.

I have a powerful graphics card, so could be my broadband connection.

Keep them coming as I am sure you are giving some members a good idea as to what can be done.

Regards,

Colin

[Lin Evans]

Hi Ken,

Good to know. If you read my response to Colin, you will discover what I learned about the video card's functioning even with the show converted to video.

Best regards,

Lin

snow falling in and out, moon rising and fire and candle synced to music -- you da man

the cooler ran it like a dream with the onboard graphics card

ken