The Wallpaper Challenge

[Emperor's Child]

This is the Wallpaper Challenge, I'm throwing down the gauntlet to all you guys and gals that have nothing better to do but punch out shipsets. Render your fleet in a large format and show the world your stuff! Beat This:

1015002417.zip

[ 01 March 2002: Message edited by: Emperor's Child ]

[Suicide Junkie]

What's that have to do with screen savers?

When I get home tonight, I'll make a screensaver that animates your shipsets if you like.

[Emperor's Child]

Ok Ok, Wallpaper! sheesh! But, the Wallpaper challenge.... Just does not have the same ring...

Well, I guess this would be better titled the (ho-hum) Wallpaper challenge. Let's everybody see what you can do, a nice juicy mouth watering picture of your ships!

SJ: Cool idea... is that difficult? That's not what I was actually thinking of cause it requires more programming effort than I think most people here possess, but that would be pretty cool. Better yet, can you do a generic one up that you can simply point to a shipset and it will use that (or them) as data? Or even better yet, can it just randomly skip through ALL shipsets? Now THAT would be pretty cool...seeing everybody's ships moving aroud on the screen...

[ 01 March 2002: Message edited by: Emperor's Child ]

[Suicide Junkie]

A quick & simple prog:
Moving 7 BMPs ships across the screen is only getting me about 9-18 FPS on a 1GHz machine.
The size of the BMPs to move around seems to make no difference, so I've gone with the portraits.

Oh, well, speed isn't one of VB's strong points

FlyingShipsets.gif
On the right side, a big black chunk of space, with null-ships flying by. (you'll see nothing until you select a shipset: see below)

On the top left, there's a drive/directory selector. Go to a directory with ship images, and they will appear. (directory name MUST match the race name: ie Klingon_portrait_escort in a "klingon" directory)

Below that, there is a FPS meter, and below that, a directional control box. Clicking in the box changes the direction/speed the ships move.

Below that is an Exit button.
Double clicking on the background between any of the above things will also quit.

Flying Shipsets.exe
To make it a screensaver, rename it to "FlyingShipsets.SCR", and place it in your windows directory. (Yes, that's all)

[Fyron]

Your screensaver program doesn't mask the bitmaps very well (well, at all, actually). It looks weird when ships cross over each other.

Also, could you make it so that it will save the settings you input? And also so that it will display in full screen mode?

[ 02 March 2002: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[Atrocities]

I'll bite. Starwolf Fleet 800x600 or Zip image download

[ 02 March 2002: Message edited by: Atrocities ]