View Full Version : Custom Vortex visualizations presets and transitions
whoknowswhat
2008-01-17, 05:11
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.
think you wanna look at this part of the source code:
http://xbmc.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xbmc/trunk/XBMC/xbmc/visualizations/
Gamester17
2008-01-17, 15:02
You does not need source code in order to make presets for our Vortex visualisation, see:
http://www.xboxmediacenter.com/wiki/?title=Vortex_Visualization_Development
also see these two topics that are stickys in this forum:
http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=22415
and:
http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=22365
They work similar to that of Milkdrop presets (http://www.milkdrop.co.uk) but are more flexible if I understand correct :cool:
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?
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!
Sounds great... Presets including the CoverArt are really appreciated..
Let the pud rest for a while and give us some nice sheit ;)
thnx for creating this.
Did you ever find time to chuck these in ?
formsoldier
2008-08-14, 15:19
Hey guys. First post here. When you say Visualizations, are you referring to visualizers for music playback on the XBMC?
Cheers
Hey guys. First post here. When you say Visualizations, are you referring to visualizers for music playback on the XBMC?
Cheers
Yes
formsoldier
2008-08-25, 22:20
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?
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?
It would be possible to port the vis to itunes, but not sure anyone here wants to do it though (I might be wrong).
But feel free to give it a go as it'd be really cool :)
If you just want milkdrop then thats already available for winamp, and there is project-m for itunes.
But if you were thinking on doing any porting, then don't port it to itunes, get vortex working on xbmc for windows and ubuntu first, then can think about porting the vis to other music players - I think vortex is xbox only at the moment, but I might be wrong about this.
aaaaaakash
2009-06-07, 00:16
i think he's asking if the itunes visualizer (magnetosphere) can be ported TO XBMC. i too am interested.