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Despite, sadly, existing just outside the fringes of the edges of the periphery of this forum community (i.e.: long time Lurker, naff poster) I cannot stop myself saying a big CONGRATULATIONS to everyone involved. I think there's a fantastic bunch of people who post here and I couldn't be happier that something so ridiculously cool and big and special and exciting (and, incidentally, perfect for what I look for in electronic entertainment :) ) has happened. Big back slaps and hearty cheers all round.

I feel a bit dumb posting this as a bit of a lurker, but if its any consolation its a great effect of this site, and Llamasoft that you can create such a big grin on a total's strangers small face... it even surprised myself how happy this has made me, not just because of the sheer fantasticness of the software but also because of the fantasticness of the people who made it, their passion and attitude is a thing to behold.

Love it all. Keep up the good work...
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Rod_S wrote:
*SNIP*
Minter: where the hell is my iTunes visual plugin?
:lol:
Apple did not phone yet ...

.. and that documentation sucks a bit :wink:
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Post by segasonic »

Huge congrats to Yak from me as well!

Maybe you can revive unity with those huge cashloads from MS?! :D

j/k


or not?
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gilesgoat wrote:
Rod_S wrote:
*SNIP*
Minter: where the hell is my iTunes visual plugin?
:lol:
Apple did not phone yet ...

.. and that documentation sucks a bit :wink:
You're telling me :)...

One of the first things I did after seeing the Neon vid was get the daft idea into my head to go and download the iTunes Visualization API to have a play around at making something, even though I can barely program at the best of times.

I read through the PDF and thought "Where the hell am I even supposed to start??"

hmph... that soon put a stop to that little idea... another dream crushed! :)

EDIT:

umkay.. So I've got the idea into my head that I really want to learn more about programming graphics, so I've been going through the XCode documentation about openGL and I now have my first ever triangle on screen!.. er.. and a huge list of maths I need to learn or relearn... and a headache

umm... I know that's not much of an acheivement, but I'm still chuffed..

Small steps... small steps...
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Here's the promo shot from Edge:

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And a couple of nice caps from an earlier build that didn't make it onto the site:

Lovely textures on this, reminds me of one of the original 60's psychedelic oil lights from Floyd concerts.

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That last shot looks especially ace. I SO want to see that pulsing and moving at 60fps.
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Sir_LANs-a-lot wrote:That last shot looks especially ace. I SO want to see that pulsing and moving at 60fps.
:D
Yeah it's an intense effect, you could really get lost in that. Edit: I haven't seen that particular bit moving, K took these grabs.

This is the banner graphic image, I love this shot, very organic and soothing.

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Neon in the Xbox Media Center RSS feed:

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Just watched the Colony 360 movie; Tracey Trewin! 8O :twisted:

Couldn't find a way to grab a screenie of her to save to C:\Documents and Settings\PVB\My Documents\My Pictures\Crumpet though. :roll: :lol:
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Sir_LANs-a-lot wrote:That last shot looks especially ace. I SO want to see that pulsing and moving at 60fps.
:D
The nice thing about that shot is - if you read the history of the lightsynths - see those boxes on the sides of the cubes, notice how their colours are based on the Commodore 64 palette?

That's Psychedelia, that is :D.
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Rod_S wrote:Ars Technica, would be surprised if they publish Neon a feature on the front page.

http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/ubb ... 5002433731

wha-wha-what???

Now I have to get a 360. Seeing this and that "nindendo on" video (even if it was a fake) I feel like my world has been turned inside out and upside down.

Looks lovely, and can be controlled by 4 people. The visualization for the xbox was crap, this is just amazing.
Minter: where the hell is my iTunes visual plugin?
:lol:
Well if you really want Neon for i-tunes you could do that with a TV card in your Mac hooked up with the Xbox 360 a source and then connect the audio output of the Mac to the input of the xbox360 and connect the audio out of that to your hifi.

Then if you have one of those cinema screens you should get a very nice Itunes > Xbox360 visualiser.

Dunno what kind of connectors the Xbox 360 has and if you just can leave the Xbox 360 visualizer running generating visuals from an external audio source so it might not work. Maybe it'll work if you hack the 360. ;)
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Rod_S wrote:
I don't need to get high to appreciate this... (Doesn't mean I won't, but I don't need to ha) The first thing I'll be playing is DSoTM so I can create my own version of Laser Floyd. This has the potential to be sweet.
Stoners will have a time with this feature, listening to their favorite music while controlling art?!

This reminds me of the Simpsons episode where the town turns out all their lights to watch a spectacular meteor shower...

Otto stares into the sky and declares, "I don't need drugs to enjoy this... only to enhance it!" :wink:
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It certainly looks lovely - forget mutliple processors, graphic whatnots and all kinds of jargon, one of the things that excites me about consoles like the Xbox/360 is that, unlike the PC, developers don't have to worry about those with slower machines: everyone has the same specification and so developers can push as much as the machine will let them. Xbox "three 3ghz parallel thingies" 360 sounds very exciting, and I hope that Yak's latest venture really pushes both the presentational capabilities of the machine and the limits of our senses. Yes, there have been a few dissenting voices ("bah, another lightsynth"), but it really looks incredible, and I'm sure that Yak's just feeling out the machines capabilities (how are you finding it? :D ). Or something.
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!!!!!!!!!!!

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I have to say it. I don't normally swear on public bbses but..

RIght..

The fuck..

ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Yak, I am so happy for you! I know you have no idea who I am, but I've been following you and Llamasoft since I first downloaded Llamatron for the Atari ST all those years ago... Worked out to the original Jaguar CD + VLM, was among the first in line to get a hit off of Tempest 2K... Dude, really.. Congratubloodylations!!!!
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Post by legion »

I cant wait, was buying an xbox 360 anyway. But this is the icing on the cake! :D
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