Hey Garry,
From what I saw of the previews on the site, they look awesome. Can’t use yet though ’cause I’m still tryin’ to get my Acer’s video card happy with ‘em. It’ll happen. Damn nice job though.
Many thanks, I’ll play with it this weekend. Focal blur is half the beauty of that one. It’s amusing – I worked on POV-Ray over a dozen years ago, and I find that Radiosity is /still/ warned about as experimental.
Thank You. Really…..Really…..WONDERFULL……..
THANK YOU
Glad you like it
These are beautiful screen savers. Any more in development?
Thanks,
I’ve been busy on other stuff recently but I’ll get back to this and render some more soon.
Wow sweet, If you did a working version of the clock posted @
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=622832
A donation would be in the post !
All of their screensavers look great… better than I can do!
hi I installed, the screensaver on the newest ubuntu today, but i go to
screensavers and nothin shows just black and in preview gpu is …>
hd2600xt pls help.
ubuntu 8.04 hardy user.
Hi,
Sorry for the late reply – I was away at a wedding all weekend.
Anyway, the solution described in the following bug report is knows to fix this kind of problem for ATi cards:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/eternity/+bug/148437
Please let me know if it helps.
Thanks,
Garry.
WOW! This looks great! You should try to get this included in Ubuntu 8.10.
so slick, this should be included by default…
stunning, thankx 1,000,000
Hey Garry,
From what I saw of the previews on the site, they look awesome. Can’t use yet though ’cause I’m still tryin’ to get my Acer’s video card happy with ‘em. It’ll happen. Damn nice job though.
Got it workin’. Not sure exactly how, but if I figure it out I’ll post. Really sick man. I love it!
Hi Asylum,
Glad you like it!
Nice Job!
Installing…
awsome screen savers
.. thanks for rendering for us
i love you you rock
This looks very nice but how about some non-distro specific ones?
Not all of us use *buntu you know
(Linux Mint {yes I know its a ‘buntu fork} user, Looking to play with some other distros too)
Hi confused.brit,
I always intended to do that, but never got round to it. I’ll make sure Mint is on the list!
Is there anywhere to get the POV scripts? I’d like to render a full-size ‘ubuntulogo’ for 1080p.
j
Hi Joel,
I always intended to release the source, but never got round to it tidying it all up. Here’s a version I used to render a hires image myself:
http://parker1.co.uk/files/ubuntulogo-hires.pov
To render it (360 frames):
povray -Q11 +A -W1680 -H1050 +kff360 +kc ubuntulogo-hires.pov
Then you can turn it into an ogg using something like:
ffmpeg2theora -v10 -x1680 -y1050 -o ubuntulogo-hires.ogg ubuntulogo-hires%3d.png
You can make it render much faster by changing the focal blur (that’s what takes all the time):
aperture 1.5 // more blur
aperture 0.75 // less blur
variance 0 // high quality
variance 0.9 // low quality
Any problems, let me know.
Many thanks, I’ll play with it this weekend. Focal blur is half the beauty of that one. It’s amusing – I worked on POV-Ray over a dozen years ago, and I find that Radiosity is /still/ warned about as experimental.
j
perfect. keep going bro
cool …