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Space 0.81:
- Fixed bad center point with transformation
- Added Limit FPS option (in Speed Menu), this is very useful for "Randomly load
Preset" or "Randomly Mirror" option !
- Added Window size in the title in windowed mode
- Little tweaks here and there (i get about 40 FPS in 512*384 FS with "Vision Li
fe"
preset and about 67 FPS in 400*300 FS on my celeron300@464 with TNT2 M64, but i
must switch to 320*240 FS before to get best performance ?? strange !)
- Addest Fast option for Transformation
(few speed up on my celeron: up only to 72 FPS "Vision Life" preset 400*300 FS)
- Remove "Water" and "RotoBrick" Transformation (not in the "Space" style ;) ! )
Space 0.8:
- Added RotaLines Effects
- Added a lot of transformations
- Added shift effects
(you can choose the direction of the shifting effects in transformation)
- Add Random Load of presets
- Fixed some minors bugs
Space 0.7: (toward Space 0.6)
- Fixed a stupid bug in MMX detection, now space will work on no MMX
processor.
- Added fullscreen mode detection
- Added a option to select two type of color: primary or not ('primary' in effec
t
menu) -> change the colors taken randomly in Space plugin
- Little changing in confettis effects.
- Change load/save Preset (now, it works with files)
NOTES
----- you still have acces on the menu in fullscreen or background mode
(for background mode: you can acces the popup menu by
right-clicking in the left top corner of the desktop (you 'll see
a little box where you can click), winamp window should not be
minimize for it (if you have minimized winamp and restore it, you
won't see the box in the left top corner but you always could
right click on it).
- if you get stranges colors try change to 15/16 bpp mode (Mode555).
- Background mode doesn't works on all video cards, sometimes you get
strange colours (TNT based video card, ...)
- on some video card the blit function is size limited and doesn't
work with very low resolution then some modes like little dock
may appear incorrectly because it use a low resolution (observed
on Ati Rage Pro based card). Others video card doesn't support blit
at all, this mean that all windowed mode will be slower
(windowed, normal dock and little dock) than others modes.
- mirrors mode speed up things and look sometime pretty cool !
- you can remove a preset you don't like just by deleting the
preset space file (.spc)
- Fast Trans may speed up transformations (I think more cache memory
you processor have, more speed up you get...) but it looks a bit less cool :p
TIPS
----
When Space is in background mode, his window is located at the top left corner
of your desktop and you should keep in mind that winamp window mustn't be
minimized for acces to space window. This is a little window of 10 * 10 pix
and if you want change option of Space you should right click on it. If you
press F4 and fps doesn't appears, this mean that space window hasn't focus, clic
k
on the top left corner of our desktop (even if you don't see anything, there is
the space window) for give focus to the window and press F4.
- Why I get strange colors ?
Have you tried to check (uncheck) mode555 option in the Display Mode Menu ?
Sometimes in background mode the colors can be wrong because your video
card doesn't support the RGB or YUV overlay function. I haven't idea to fix this
problem without a big loss of speed... If you have, then say me. Thanx
- Why Space is slower than Geiss ?
Because you use Geiss in 8 bit mode and 8 bit mode is a lot faster than 16 bit m
ode,
and I should reconize than Geiss is very optimised (I would like to know how is
their map transformation procedure ;) ... ).
However 16 bit mode give the possibility to display more color with blur and fad
eout
and it is supported by almost video card (this isn't the case of 24 or 32bpp).
But I have noticed than Geiss could be slower than Space (even in 8 bpp) on slow
er
computer like K6-233, I don't know why ...
- Why resolution "AUTO/2" is slower than "AUTO" which calculate 4 more times dat
a ?
Because resolution different than "AUTO" use the Streched blit functionality and
some video card haven't got this capabilities (Sis, Cirrus, ...). In this case
use only "AUTO" resolution for better performance.
- When I run the plugin in FULLSCREEN MODE, i get a messagebox saying:
'SetCooperativeLevel DDSCL_EXCLUSIVE|DDSCL_FULLSCREEN: DDERR_HWNDALREADYSET' ?
Make sure you're not using the DIRECTSOUND output plugin underneath Winamp...
you have to use the WAVEOUT output plugin.
- I have only few resolution than appear for the FULLSCREEN MODE, and I am sure
my
video card support more video mode.
Be sure that directdraw is correctly installed, reinstall directx to make sure.
note that you need directX 4 in order Space works (since version 0.9)
GREETINGS
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CONTACT
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