Animated wallpaper for XP ,using DesktopX
Friday, January 11, 2008 by HG_Eliminator | Discussion: Skinning
Tiggz the innovator, has struck again. He used DX to assemble an animated wallpaper.(It's sweet) I thought it deserved a little time in the limelight.
Top notch thinking from a top notch skinner. I hope more XP folks follow this lead.
Take a look here.
Tiggz Animated Wallpaper
Top notch thinking from a top notch skinner. I hope more XP folks follow this lead.
Take a look here.
Tiggz Animated Wallpaper
Tiggz
Reply #2 Sunday, January 13, 2008 6:25 AM
Reply #2 Sunday, January 13, 2008 6:25 AM
The spinning cog consists of a 10 frame image, each frame has the cog rotated by a small increment - it is applied to a dx object and configured on the animation tab of that object.
The flashing neon/fuse type thingies are randomly shown using some dxscript - they are applied to various states of an object, and those states are called by the script.
I have commented the script to try and explain what is going on.
If you load the theme and then navigate to your current theme folder (enter dx builder mode, open the dx configuration dialog, go to the 'desktop' tab and click the 'open desktop data folder' button) you can see the images used.
If you are more familair with graphics than script then creating multi-frame images is the easiest way to make some animations
The flashing neon/fuse type thingies are randomly shown using some dxscript - they are applied to various states of an object, and those states are called by the script.
I have commented the script to try and explain what is going on.
If you load the theme and then navigate to your current theme folder (enter dx builder mode, open the dx configuration dialog, go to the 'desktop' tab and click the 'open desktop data folder' button) you can see the images used.
If you are more familair with graphics than script then creating multi-frame images is the easiest way to make some animations
ZubaZ
Reply #4 Sunday, January 13, 2008 11:07 AM
Reply #4 Sunday, January 13, 2008 11:07 AM
Hmmmm.... I was making animated wallpapers with DX in 2002
I think the first one I saw was the Castle by Alex G back in 2001.
HG_Eliminator
Reply #5 Sunday, January 13, 2008 12:11 PM
Reply #5 Sunday, January 13, 2008 12:11 PM
yeh yeh.. my senility kicked in..but still, the sentiment was there 
kelltech
Reply #7 Wednesday, January 16, 2008 2:10 AM
Reply #7 Wednesday, January 16, 2008 2:10 AM
Does DesktopX have to be installed to use this paper?
Cindersis
Reply #8 Wednesday, January 16, 2008 2:56 AM
Reply #8 Wednesday, January 16, 2008 2:56 AM
Oh I am a lot better with graffics than script. Thank you for the instructions I will try doing this. I am still pretty new at some of this.
BoXXi
Reply #9 Wednesday, January 16, 2008 5:06 AM
Reply #9 Wednesday, January 16, 2008 5:06 AM
kelltech: Yes, you will need to have DesktopX installed to use that animated wallpaper, because it's basically a DesktopX THEME.
Have Fun!!
Have Fun!!
XX
Reply #10 Thursday, January 17, 2008 8:36 PM
Reply #10 Thursday, January 17, 2008 8:36 PM
I made one a while ago, it even won a contest. 
Although I made it in different way, using objects to animate objects.
Although I made it in different way, using objects to animate objects.
ZubaZ
Reply #11 Thursday, January 17, 2008 8:40 PM
Reply #11 Thursday, January 17, 2008 8:40 PM
I made one a while ago, it even won a contest.
link?
HG_Eliminator
Reply #13 Tuesday, January 22, 2008 1:10 PM
Reply #13 Tuesday, January 22, 2008 1:10 PM
cool sViz.. the aditions are sweet.. is nice having animated XP wallpapers
XX
Reply #14 Tuesday, January 22, 2008 9:46 PM
Reply #14 Tuesday, January 22, 2008 9:46 PM
ZubaZ
Reply #15 Tuesday, January 22, 2008 9:50 PM
Sure
Crystalized
Ohhh . . I remember that. Never thought of it as an animated wallpaper. Dynamic even.
Reply #15 Tuesday, January 22, 2008 9:50 PM
Sure
Crystalized
Ohhh . . I remember that. Never thought of it as an animated wallpaper. Dynamic even.
XX
Reply #16 Wednesday, January 23, 2008 2:05 AM
Reply #16 Wednesday, January 23, 2008 2:05 AM
Thanks. The whole concept of mine for this was to be a "working" and animated wallpaper. It was even before dreamscape and stuff like that.
The whole concept of mine for this was to be a "working" and animated wallpaper. It was even before dreamscape and stuff like that.
skybright
Reply #17 Wednesday, January 23, 2008 4:35 AM
Reply #17 Wednesday, January 23, 2008 4:35 AM
Thank You to both XX and sVis now I to have animated wallpaper. Great job both of you!!!
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Reply #1 Sunday, January 13, 2008 5:56 AM