DeskScapes 1.01 Released - Introducing Dynamic Dreams!

Say goodbye to looping video...

Wednesday, March 28, 2007 by Zoomba | Discussion: WinCustomize News

DeskScapes 1.01For the past month, Windows Vista Ultimate users have been enjoying the benefits of the Stardock DeskScapes, an extension Microsoft DreamScene (an extra given only to owners of Vista Ultimate Edition).  DeskScapes took basic DreamScenes one step further by allowing authors to retain credit for their work through the use of the .Dream format.  Anyone who made a video could attach their name to it, a brief description, and a link back to their website.  In addition to giving artists the ability to receive credit and recognition for their work, we also launched the community site Dream.WinCustomize.com, the premier site on the web for Dreams on Windows Vista.

However, providing a basic by-line and a link for artists wasn't all DeskScapes would do.  From the beginning we have been working to not only allow users to play videos on their desktop, but also be able to run  triggered content that could change based on time of day, local weather, or other set events, not to mention dynamically generated content, rendered on-the-fly on their system.  A looping video is cool, but what about a rotating planet Earth that accurately shows where it is currently day or night?  Or maybe a lake scene that changes from day to night based on your computer clock? 

Desktop Earth draws the day/night cycle of the planet in real time.

Today, we're ready to unleash DeskScapes 1.01 upon the world!  1.01 includes support for triggers and dynamic dreams.  Users of Object Desktop have been testing dynamic dreams for a week now, and the response has been great.  DeskScapes 1.01 is a free update and comes with an updated DreamMaker so you can start creating your own triggered animated wallpapers!

Head over to Dream.WinCustomize.com now to get the latest version and start experiencing what Stardock has made possible for Windows Vista!

If you're a current Object Desktop Subscriber, you can get the latest update via Stardock Central.  Subscribers also get the Desktop Earth dynamic dream for free!

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ZubaZ
Reply #1 Wednesday, March 28, 2007 2:28 PM
It says a lot about Stardock, but using their new apps are a driver for me upgrading to Vista more than any of the native features of the OS. 

I.R. Brainiac
Reply #2 Wednesday, March 28, 2007 2:37 PM
These sound like a very cool feature.Bet they work better than the looping videos.  

Elsius Saint
Reply #3 Wednesday, March 28, 2007 2:45 PM

I'm loving it - Gload I have The Vista Ultimate

I have an open question to Frogboy and Zoomba as well

Is it something that will remain free or we might see a Premium version with special features?


QUOTE: DeskScapes 1.01 is a free update


I'm thinking if it's going to always be free - It should!

There can always be Premium .DREAM   



rojaz
Reply #4 Wednesday, March 28, 2007 5:00 PM
can someone let me know if they had issues with this download.

it installs fine, but is missing the only dream i want to see.....

earth.dream???

is this meant to be in the pack or am i going to have to wait for it to be released?

its definitely not in the dream folder!

cheers

CHEF-KOCH
Reply #5 Wednesday, March 28, 2007 5:12 PM
nice

big thx ...

Neil Banfield
Reply #6 Wednesday, March 28, 2007 5:26 PM
Only OD customers get the desktop earth dream included.

BigDogBigFeet
Reply #7 Wednesday, March 28, 2007 6:20 PM
Keep it up you guys. You are definately on the right track to building the foundation for OD Vista. I haven't bought Vista yet, but when I do I'm going to be kicking around the choices of Home Premium (why doesn't that version include DreamScene?) or ultimate. I only have one PC and it's for home use, what is Microsoft thinking with this limiting decision of DreamScene only in ultimate? They have only added to my resolve to play the waiting game. It is well understood with PCs you get more hardware bang for the buck by waiting. So, since I'm not ready to buy a new PC yet, the soonest would be towards the end of this year, if then, I have no incentive, yet, to go through the work to put Vista on my existing rig, even though it's Vista capable. Microsoft's marketing of Vista, so far, says I can only win by waiting. At least, that is how things are shaping up for me.

Getting back to Stardock. The decisions you're making make sense to me. DeskScapes says very clearly that one Vista application every Vista user should consider is Object Desktop. Good move Stardock.  

boss0190
Reply #8 Wednesday, March 28, 2007 6:21 PM
It installed on my computer in C:\Users\Your name\Documents\Stardock\Dreams
Filename: Desktop Earth.dream.

ZubaZ
Reply #9 Wednesday, March 28, 2007 6:28 PM
The earth dream is only availabel through Stardock Central to Object Desktop subscribers right now.  

Frogboy
Reply #10 Wednesday, March 28, 2007 6:44 PM

Is it something that will remain free or we might see a Premium version with special features?

The plan is to keep it free and generate revenue on content.


Bebi Bulma
Reply #11 Wednesday, March 28, 2007 7:23 PM
I haven't bought Vista yet, but when I do I'm going to be kicking around the choices of Home Premium (why doesn't that version include DreamScene?) or ultimate. I only have one PC and it's for home use, what is Microsoft thinking with this limiting decision of DreamScene only in ultimate?


Money...it's all about the bottom line. They want people to fork over their hard earned cash for Ultimate to get those extras.

Tsumana
Reply #12 Wednesday, March 28, 2007 7:36 PM
God I wish I had Vista... and a computer capable of running it.

Jafo
Reply #13 Wednesday, March 28, 2007 8:12 PM

It says a lot about Stardock, but using their new apps are a driver for me upgrading to Vista more than any of the native features of the OS.

Sigh.....ditto...


ben38
Reply #14 Wednesday, March 28, 2007 10:25 PM
This looks pretty cool, however sad you have to fork out so much money for vista and no current updates for drivers to use it.  

PerfectNebula
Reply #15 Wednesday, March 28, 2007 10:33 PM
will earth ever be available to people who didnt subscribe?

JRSCCivic98
Reply #16 Thursday, March 29, 2007 9:07 AM
There's an issue with the install of 1.01. Yeah, I know, what else is new right? Anyway, the install seems to delete your preexisting dreams that you have installed... even ones you downloaded after installing 1.00. Kinda stupid if you ask me... still can't belive that the testers mis the little stuff like this.

Elsius Saint
Reply #17 Thursday, March 29, 2007 10:24 AM
I'm no longer happy

Same thing happened to me. I have lost all my previous .Dream files.

While Stardock has some great software I just won't live without, but it seems in order to get some needed extra, you must get Object Desktop. But Object desktop comes with too many things I don't want. Windowblinds and IconPackager are the two best things about Stardock. It almost safe to say that DeskScapes 1.01 is retails. Things that can't be purchased such as Desktop Earth requires Object Desktop and Object Desktop is not free. I'll be buying DeskScapec without buying it technically or I'll be buying Desktop Earth without it being retail. Maybe it’s just about doing smart business forcing sell of Object Desktop. I would not mind Desktop Earth being a Premium .DREAM because it's always up to anyone to buy it and no one is forced to.

I'm going to enter straight into communication with Frogboy.

While Stardock makes the best software in the category of skinning, I often ask myself if they have people inventing new goodies.

Yes, windowblinds is the greatest thing in skinning and make XP looks great with Glass style and all as if it were Vista. Why no one ever came up with that kind of idea first since Windowblinds and SkinStudio do it so well? Now Microsoft comes with the animated wallpaper (I’ve seen animated wallpapers way before though) but Stardock simply make it better. It seems stardock does not invent much, but uses ideas and make them better.

Jim Latimer
Reply #18 Thursday, March 29, 2007 11:19 AM
Any chance of SD making an XP version of Deskscape/Dreamscene or is there something in your agreement with MS that prevents that? Or is it maybe an OS/hardware issue?

vStyler
Reply #19 Thursday, March 29, 2007 12:33 PM
Maybe it’s just about doing smart business


  

MadDeez
Reply #20 Thursday, March 29, 2007 12:54 PM
the first build of deskscapes stored the dreams in one location and the newest build stores them in another. i'm betting your installation did not transfer the dreams to the new location. check in c:\programdata\stardocl\deskscapes and see if they're still there. if they are, transfer them to user name\docs\stardock\dreams

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