Custom Vortex visualizations presets and transitions

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whoknowswhat Offline
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Big Grin  Custom Vortex visualizations presets and transitions Post: #1
Hello,
I am interested in extending the visualizations, new images and such.
Ex. New visualizations that can be themed to a skin.

How do I make these .vis files I see, that is a great place for me to start learning this.
Thanks for your help.
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Post: #2
think you wanna look at this part of the source code:
http://xbmc.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/x...lizations/

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Wink  Vortex presets and transitions Post: #3
You does not need source code in order to make presets for our Vortex visualisation, see:
http://www.xboxmediacenter.com/wiki/?tit...evelopment

also see these two topics that are stickys in this forum:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=22415
and:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=22365

They work similar to that of Milkdrop presets but are more flexible if I understand correct Cool

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would be nice with some new ones... i like this much better than the milkdrop.

Is there more presets than in the tech build somewhere?
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Glad you like it. Unfortunately there are no new presets apart from some by Morte0815 that you can find in this forum. I was going to add them to SVN but forgot all about it.

One of his presets didn't work properly because of a bug in the version of AngelScript I used so I started updating Vortex to use a newer version along with adding on screen display of compilation errors and a few other bug fixes. But I got distracted by some other things that were going on (usually the pub) so I never got it finished. I may take another look at it and try to add some more effects and presets while I am at it.

Please feel free to create and contribute your own presets though!

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Sounds great... Presets including the CoverArt are really appreciated..

Let the pud rest for a while and give us some nice sheit Wink

thnx for creating this.
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Did you ever find time to chuck these in ?
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Hey guys. First post here. When you say Visualizations, are you referring to visualizers for music playback on the XBMC?

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formsoldier Wrote:Hey guys. First post here. When you say Visualizations, are you referring to visualizers for music playback on the XBMC?

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Yes
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stuaxo Wrote:Yes

Ah, sweetness.

Question, is it possible for you guys to port the visualizers from say... iTunes? Or is all of Apple's source closed to the public?
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