Transcendence Screen Saver

[george moromisato]

Just finished creating a simple screen saver:

http://neurohack.com/transcendence/extr ... Saver.html

Could you please try it out and let me know if it works for you or not?

Thanks!

[Aury]

That looks AWESOME george!
Thanks!
*goes to try it out*

[Aury]

Looks really nice on a single monitor setup (ie, my netbook, which I play T on)! Thanks! (I need to get equally sized monitors for my main computer )

[alterecco]

Looks really good George!

A few issues.

On Win 7 (yes, i'm on windows atm) the screensaver disappears from the selection list eventually. I don't know if you can reproduce it, but these are the steps that reproduce it for me:

1) Right click -> Install
2) Select the "Transcendence Battles" screensaver, and click OK, exiting the dialog box.
3) Re-enter the dialog box ("Change Screen Saver")
4) Select "None"in the drop down, and click OK, exiting the dialog.
5) Re-enter the dialog box again. At this point the "Transcendence Battles" option is gone from the drop-down.

Also, it seems when clicking "Settings" in the screen-saver dialog, that the preview image gets messed up (it looks like it runs faster and faster). I suppose if there are no settings to set, the button should be greyed out.

Otherwise really neat. It would be cool if some of the keystrokes from the main menu would be available here, but I am not sure if that is viable (or a good idea) in a screen-saver.

[george moromisato]

Thanks--very helpful feedback.

I've uploaded a new version with some fixes:

1. I fixed a problem with multiple monitors (which which the image was stretched).

2. There are no Settings for the screen saver and unfortunately there is no way to gray out the button. But at least I fixed the problem with the preview image getting messed up. [This also caused problems if you tried to switch to a different screen saver.]

3. I changed the installation instructions to suggest copying the file to Windows/System32. This is optional, but if you do that then the screen saver will always appear on the list.

I think in a future version it would be cool tom implement some keystrokes. I'm pretty sure that's possible.

Thanks again and and let me know if you all find anything else.

[Aury]

Yeah! having the keystrokes would be neat; it should be possible; default windows slideshow allows you to use r-arrow, l-arrow to move through the selected picture

also; there's no way of actually getting to that page itself on the main site

[Prophet]

That's very cool!

It worked great for me (win xp pro)

[digdug]

awesome !

Works great here too! (Vista SP2)

[IceMephit]

Works on XP!

Installed it and ran the screensaver and it works perfectly!!

[Ttech]

First now how did you do that? I've always wanted to make a screensaver.

It works great though, especially when I a wall of ships going from one screen to another.

[Aury]

Hi ttech, I see you're back.

And now you don't have to make it yourself

[Jeoshua]

Screen savers are easy. Technically anything can be made into a screen saver easily by renaming the .exe to .scr... they'll run but theres extra stuff that has to be thrown into the mix to make it cooperate with other things in the system. So making a screen saver that allows key presses is no more or less challenging than making anything ELSE that uses key presses.

The only qwuestion I personally have about the screensaver is: does it check the transcendence directory and load up your mods, like the game does?

[alterecco]

The only qwuestion I personally have about the screensaver is: does it check the transcendence directory and load up your mods, like the game does?

I really doubt that, since the transcendence folder is not likely to be in your PATH

[Vizth]

Awesome, I just saw a gaian processor wipe out about 100 mule autons. XD

[Aury]

open up tbd, and open up file, then copy file's data into the tbd, then add it to the tbd index, following the same format all the others use.