All three you posted online are great. However, I personally prefer very slow moving animations in my desktop. For some reason fast moving images/animations distract me when I am working...

This was really cool. As for future things, I can't hardly wait for Christmas....I can just imagine some of your Christmas papers right now....!!! (shivers!)

How do you convert it to a ".gif" file? Do you simply save it as that?

In order to have animated wallpapers on XP, the need to be in a pic format (gif)

I just down loaded your first animated desktop. Witch I think is cool as it gets. But the only problem I having is getting it on my desktop. I new at all this and I ma tyring to learn has much as I can but this has me stump.

I hope you can help.

Norman

nrmstok@embarqmail.com

Cool! Would really like to see this as a screen saver. Is that even possible?

Excellent , this would make a fine screen saver can you convert to that format ? Now you'll have to do MORE !!

I have Vista (its a laptop and it came with it, not my fault) How do I get it as my background?



Thanks

When watching it intensely without looping it, then when it stop, it looks like it swirls the other way. That's quite fun :)

It might chew up the processor cycles, but this looks awesome. Keep up the great work.

Ok, I'll see what I can do about adding some 1920 x 1080 renders to the gallery.



I do want to do a few more of these animations first, just because a lot of people have been asking for them in the past.

I agree with the comment given by Terry... it would be great if you had some PS3 backgrounds as well. I won't be moving to Vista any time soon as it barely runs any of my software!

More! More! More!

I wont be moving to Vista anytime soon, way too many bugs in it its not suitable for my background as a developer, still I like the idea. Please don't ditch us guys wo will use your still works! Also, was wondering if any of your wallpapers can be used on the PS3, know you did a PSP collection and a recent update is allowing high res backgrounds.



T.

I really like the animated Wallpaper and I love that you start experimenting with it, but I have to agree witht he users that pointed out that it has to run much slower. Animated wallpapers are all about looking impressively cool but should also not distract you from your every day work. That's why running water or grass moving in the wind is so popular. (and also you can loop it quickly without having it look like a loop).



So how about so flickering lights at your Biodome, or some moving water at the 'circumpolar'?



As said before, I love that you start with animated wallpapers, it's the future. And it's also great because shorty after I became a lifetime-Member I started using Dreamscene and never turned it off, it's just to cool.

you'll either need apple's MPEG2 plug-in for quicktime, or mplayer for OS X (search for it at versontracker.com)

I'd love to see some of your recent work be put into this format too, although having done 3d work myself I understand how much more time consuming it would be. Perhaps just for a few of your best pieces?

If you really want this for your desktop wallpaper. Download VLC Player (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/) it's free. There is an option for setting the movie file to a wallpaper but just a warning it is kind of a memory hog but it does work!!

Can't use it as a desktop (XP), but great to have. Left it playing on a loop in WMP when I went to lunch, most of my office mates were impressed as well...

I just wanted to let you know that I'd been thinking about becoming a member for a long time. With you dropping the one-month trial price this week, and now adding animated wallpapers, I couldn't resist anymore. Thanks for all your great work, and I hope to be around for a long time!

mplayer -x [screen width] -y [screen height] -loop 0 -rootwin singularity1080p.mpg



Chews up processor though!

To the best of my knowledge, animated wallpapers do not work on XP.

How do you implement the video wallpaper in Windows XP? Or is this VISTA only?

I wish this was something that could be controlled by the user. I would have have to render out twice the number of frames to get it to run at half-speed, doubling the render time and the download size.



Perhaps an OS update in the future will allow you to change the animation speed?

Would it be possible to make it much much slower? It look like a galaxy to me, and I'm imagining I'm observing it from several light years away. That would make it a lot less distracting.

i'm very excited that you're developing animated wallpapers. this one looks wonderful; so many i've seen have skipping images ;) thanks for doing this, keep up the excellent work

The animation was encoded using MPEG2. I'm not up on what codecs are installed on a Mac by default, but if the right codec is not installed the file will not open.

I can't open the file on my Intel Mac Pro. I've tried QuickTime and the DivX player, but neither of them can open the movie. Doesn't say why, other than "The file is not a movie file." (which it clearly is).

Very cool. I'm watching it on a dual-monitor machine via Vista Ultimate's DreamScene. Both screens are 1280 x 1024, so I had to play around a bit with the positioning options. For me, "Crop to fit screen" looks best.