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Awwww, I think that your desktop is nice. :)

Yeah, it seems to be called Terragen - 69.

Terragen very likely comes from the fact that it's partly done with Terragen. :-P Which has a free version, btw, and is a very nice and relaxing thing to play with...

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...even though achieving the quality of the real Terragen artists is not very likely for most of us. But compared to things like Lightwave and 3DSMax it's very easy to use, which makes it fun.
 
Like Jedimark mines is a boring XP desktop with too many icons and shortcuts...
 
Eh.. Didn't seem to be worth creating a new thread, os just reviving this one.  :evil:
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Hey Jedimark, Im on vista too now, that animated background rocks! how did you do that?
 
Skillster: It's called Windows DreamScene and is an Ultimate Extra - although, only select Beta testers have access to the update at the moment. I'm pretty sure it will be publicly available soon (possibly just as a Release Candidate though). You can basically play any video file you want in the background including HighDef content. Google DreamScene for more information.

Jari: How does BSPlayer work? The good thing about DreamScene is that it uses the GPU (as apposed to the CPU) so it's not hogging precious CPU time.
 
It's been 5 years since I used it - at least as a wallpaper (and no more than few minutes back then either, it's horribly gimmicky and gets real old real fast) - but I believe that it just makes a large video overlay, and pins it to the desktop, or something. It should use exactly as much resources as playing such a video clip in regular window.

BSPlayer is not the only player to do it, either. I just don't remember the other one right now.
 
You know, Midgar and NobodyImportant, you could make a smaller version of your screenshots to work as thumbnails.

Sure, SMF resizes the picture dimensions but it can't do anything about the file size. I for one don't particularly enjoy downloading 250 - 600KB 640x480 pictures that would look exactly the same, but would be less than 100KB if you resized them to 640x480.

Please, use your head. Not everyone is on a broadband, and even if they were, there's still no need whatsoever to post fullsized desktops as is.
 
The pics won't show up anyway if they're on broadband; if someone has the time to look at everyone's desktop in the world, they have a no life crisis anyway. Plus, eye candy is perfectly suitable for any forum, unless you're using that old LYNX browser.

On a side note, BS.player Forum is a good resource for video codecs, for those of you trying to mess with the ff7 videos.
 
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The pics won't show up anyway if they're on broadband;
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What you say?


if someone has the time to look at everyone's desktop in the world, they have a no life crisis anyway. Plus, eye candy is perfectly suitable for any forum, unless you're using that old LYNX browser.
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What part of "...would look exactly the same..." are you having problems understanding?

EDIT: Actually, let me rephrase; it would look better hand resized. Because for example bicubic resize of Photoshop (or any resize algo of any image editing program, except for nearest neighbor is far superior having your browser scale them... since frankly, I don't think that anyone ever seriously meant the browser scaling to be used for anything except emergencies).
 
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You know, Midgar and NobodyImportant, you could make a smaller version of your screenshots to work as thumbnails.

Sure, SMF resizes the picture dimensions but it can't do anything about the file size. I for one don't particularly enjoy downloading 250 - 600KB 640x480 pictures that would look exactly the same, but would be less than 100KB if you resized them to 640x480.

Please, use your head. Not everyone is on a broadband, and even if they were, there's still no need whatsoever to post fullsized desktops as is.
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Sorry. Most forums I go to have an autoresize, and I didn't bother to change it.
My current one after failing Beryl, and going back to Windows.
http://i18.tinypic.com/4ddhtnr.jpg
 
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