Check out the YouTube video! The wallpaper itself will go live tomorrow morning, and we're really excited about this one, the motion turned out really great and it's fun to watch!
Thursday, July 29, 2010
North American Flags v1.0
Been working on this one the last couple weeks, and it's finally just about set. This is an animated wallpaper showing a hanging flag blowing in the wind, with a bunch of customization options. It includes flags of the United States, Canada, and all 50 US states. There's seven backgrounds -- Five of places in North America, plus black and white. You can select the state of the flag (solid pristine, translucent, or solid tattered) and the animation speed. In landscape mode you get a more stylized angled close-up of the flag. It's quite pretty!
Check out the YouTube video! The wallpaper itself will go live tomorrow morning, and we're really excited about this one, the motion turned out really great and it's fun to watch!
Check out the YouTube video! The wallpaper itself will go live tomorrow morning, and we're really excited about this one, the motion turned out really great and it's fun to watch!
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Checklist
Things to get done on various projects:
*Fix Generala text color bug (Droid X issue) ?????
*Enable SD card loading for Generala
*Mipmapping disabled by default for Aquarium
*Multitexture Aquarium overhead light, make it awesomer
* Look into water caustics style effect on Aquarium background images
*Wider treatment for Silhouette, scroll more on 7-screen phones
*Find source images for clown triggerfish
*Investigate usage rights on this image of clown triggerfish
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Saturday, July 24, 2010
Aquarium v1.75
- New Feature: Shark
- Update: More active fish behaviors
I've seen some comments that the fish aren't active enough, so focused on improving this. Fish will now change destination sometimes when swimming, they turn and move faster, and they have more drift when doing so. In general the whole thing feels more lively, I think.
I also finally added a shark model, though I think he's a bit cartoony. I'll see if I can get him a bit more in the photo-real direction everything else is next update. When you feed the fish, the sharks get a steak instead of fish flakes.
- Update: More active fish behaviors
I've seen some comments that the fish aren't active enough, so focused on improving this. Fish will now change destination sometimes when swimming, they turn and move faster, and they have more drift when doing so. In general the whole thing feels more lively, I think.
I also finally added a shark model, though I think he's a bit cartoony. I'll see if I can get him a bit more in the photo-real direction everything else is next update. When you feed the fish, the sharks get a steak instead of fish flakes.
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Aquarium Live Wallpaper v1.7
- New Feature: Interested fish!
- New Feature: Mipmapping w/ prefs
- New Feature: Roman Column prop!
- Update: Adjusted clownfish & triggerfish sizes
Fish have a new behavior! When you tap on the screen, there's a chance (20% per fish) that they'll stop and look at the glass for a few seconds before continuing on. This got a good reaction from test audiences :P
Mipmapping is a rendering technique that reduces noise patterns in edge-on faces. It also allows a texture to be rendered at a lower resolution when the higher-res version isn't needed. It's generally a good thing both for framerate and rendering quality, and I had it enabled some time ago originally, but took it out when I discovered that some phones don't support OpenGL ES 1.1 style mipmap generation correctly... and there doesn't seem to be any way to tell the difference. So, now it's re-enabled, and if you have a problem it can be disabled on the customize screen. Press menu and it's in the pop-up.
The implementation of the options pop-up itself should allow me to add in a few more options in the future, so it's useful having that groundwork out of the way.
There's a new prop available, it's a roman column sticking up out of the ground. It seemed appropriate.
In response to feedback, the triggerfish is substantially larger and the clownfish a notch smaller. This is a nod to their actual sizes in, you know, reality.
- New Feature: Mipmapping w/ prefs
- New Feature: Roman Column prop!
- Update: Adjusted clownfish & triggerfish sizes
Fish have a new behavior! When you tap on the screen, there's a chance (20% per fish) that they'll stop and look at the glass for a few seconds before continuing on. This got a good reaction from test audiences :P
Mipmapping is a rendering technique that reduces noise patterns in edge-on faces. It also allows a texture to be rendered at a lower resolution when the higher-res version isn't needed. It's generally a good thing both for framerate and rendering quality, and I had it enabled some time ago originally, but took it out when I discovered that some phones don't support OpenGL ES 1.1 style mipmap generation correctly... and there doesn't seem to be any way to tell the difference. So, now it's re-enabled, and if you have a problem it can be disabled on the customize screen. Press menu and it's in the pop-up.
The implementation of the options pop-up itself should allow me to add in a few more options in the future, so it's useful having that groundwork out of the way.
There's a new prop available, it's a roman column sticking up out of the ground. It seemed appropriate.
In response to feedback, the triggerfish is substantially larger and the clownfish a notch smaller. This is a nod to their actual sizes in, you know, reality.
Saturday, July 10, 2010
City at Night v1.06
- Bug Fix: Light streaks should no longer pixelate
I got a couple bug reports about this... basically, after the wallpaper's been running for a while (several days?) eventually the light streaks and clouds would become pixelated looking. I haven't seen this on my Incredible, but my guess is that the scrolling values simply got very, very high after a while... so I'm now rounding them down periodically. Hopefully that does the trick.
I got a couple bug reports about this... basically, after the wallpaper's been running for a while (several days?) eventually the light streaks and clouds would become pixelated looking. I haven't seen this on my Incredible, but my guess is that the scrolling values simply got very, very high after a while... so I'm now rounding them down periodically. Hopefully that does the trick.
Next Aquarium update
This update is going to be something of a grab bag of changes. Firstly, I'm re-enabling mipmapping by default, and have added an options menu to the customization screen that allows disabling it if there's problems. This should give a bit of a performance boost but still allow problematic phones to disable it.
I've added a new fish behavior -- when you tap the screen there's a small chance the fish will stop and look at you for a few seconds before continuing on.
The overhead light got an improvement. It now has three modes, the third of which is more active and better looking than the current 'on' does. It's also a touch more expensive, so pick your favorite.
The clownfish were reduced in size a bit, and the triggerfish enlarged.
I've added a new fish behavior -- when you tap the screen there's a small chance the fish will stop and look at you for a few seconds before continuing on.
The overhead light got an improvement. It now has three modes, the third of which is more active and better looking than the current 'on' does. It's also a touch more expensive, so pick your favorite.
The clownfish were reduced in size a bit, and the triggerfish enlarged.
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