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Little toy I wrote, feedback please.

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I recently found a way to render 3D scenes straight onto the desktop in Windows without any new window manager. I've tried to think of something cool to put on there, and this is my first try. It's just some spheres that roll around your desktop when your mouse pointer hits them. It also has dynamic lighting. I'd also like to write something else that is actually usefull to improve the user interface. Any ideas are welcome.

Here it is. This is on my POS swbell DSL line, so be patient.

It can run at 1280x1024 decent with a GF3, maybe a GF2.
It requires a modified version of the Vital Desktop utility(included).
Changing wallpapers and sphere textures is totally manual right now, instructions are in the images directory.
 
Hmmm...when I try to run it my monitors just go blank. Hopefully tomorrow I'll get a chance to play with it some.

Because of your limited bandwidth, I went ahead and mirrored the install package and Vital Desktop source files. (hope you don't mind 🙂)

Reaction v0.8.zip
vd-source.zip
 
Thanks for hosting.

The installers need admin rights. If both installed without errors, it should work. Check the log file in the reaction directory. Is there anything else like, active desktop or drempels running?
 
at first i got a DLL error, then it acted like it was going to work... now my 2nd monitor is blinking really bad, and my primary has a little smidge of Reaction under the taskbar when it unhides
 
Well, I don't have access to a dual monitor system, and don't know anything about them. It'll take a little while to sort out.

Do both of your cards support 3D acceleration(this thing uses a lot of fillrate)?
 
It's only one card, dual head radeon 8500, and both heads support 3d rendering

i tried to reinstall and it tells me that there's a file it can't overwrite so i abort and now the options aren't in my display settings anymore...
 
Could you tell me the name of the file it had a problem with. I know it has a file copy problem when not run with admin rights(or at least write access to system32 dir).

I think I've found the dual monitor problem. I can test it later with an old pci vid card I found. From what I've read, I don't think many cards support rendering 3D to both monitors without a lot of work(creating 2 windows and coordinating them), even on Win2k & XP.

Still working on the stuttering caused by VD though.
 
I've patched it to hopefully work with some multi-monitor configs. I don't have access to one, so I'm not sure.
The animation is a little smoother.
There is a setting for varying CPU utilization.
 
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