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[Motohead]

Are there any specific settings Color maps Wave shapes and flowfields that work well with photo backgrounds ? I want to use my platinum eddition for a slide show at my daughters 21st b-day party. I have been playing around and sometimes it works well but most times the photos are covered up and color distorted. I will have a 1080 projector set up in the back yard with a 10'x20' screen and Pandora radio as a "Live" music source.

[juxtiphi]

Are there any specific settings Color maps Wave shapes and flowfields that work well with photo backgrounds ? I want to use my platinum eddition for a slide show at my daughters 21st b-day party. I have been playing around and sometimes it works well but most times the photos are covered up and color distorted. I will have a 1080 projector set up in the back yard with a 10'x20' screen and Pandora radio as a "Live" music source.

GF isnt the best way to view photos that need to be seen clearly. the effect you mention is how GF works, you are not experiencing a problem.

[Motohead]

Are there any specific settings Color maps Wave shapes and flowfields that work well with photo backgrounds ? I want to use my platinum eddition for a slide show at my daughters 21st b-day party. I have been playing around and sometimes it works well but most times the photos are covered up and color distorted. I will have a 1080 projector set up in the back yard with a 10'x20' screen and Pandora radio as a "Live" music source.

GF isnt the best way to view photos that need to be seen clearly. the effect you mention is how GF works, you are not experiencing a problem.

Yea but its so cool! I was hoping to just tweek it a little to see a bit more of the background photos and was hopeing to find someone who allready did the work. Do you know of a slideshow program that will beet cut photos to live music (Pandora radio) with digital effects (fly in,wipe,fade rollup ect.)

[juxtiphi]

Are there any specific settings Color maps Wave shapes and flowfields that work well with photo backgrounds ? I want to use my platinum eddition for a slide show at my daughters 21st b-day party. I have been playing around and sometimes it works well but most times the photos are covered up and color distorted. I will have a 1080 projector set up in the back yard with a 10'x20' screen and Pandora radio as a "Live" music source.

GF isnt the best way to view photos that need to be seen clearly. the effect you mention is how GF works, you are not experiencing a problem.

Yea but its so cool! I was hoping to just tweek it a little to see a bit more of the background photos and was hopeing to find someone who allready did the work. Do you know of a slideshow program that will beet cut photos to live music (Pandora radio) with digital effects (fly in,wipe,fade rollup ect.)

sorry dont use many other vis progs

[sitsparky]

Yea but its so cool! I was hoping to just tweek it a little to see a bit more of the background photos and was hopeing to find someone who allready did the work. Do you know of a slideshow program that will beet cut photos to live music (Pandora radio) with digital effects (fly in,wipe,fade rollup ect.)

Though I can't really provide you with any detailed instructions, if you're so inclined I might suggest you take a look at and edit the following file.

On Windows:
C:\Program Files\SoundSpectrum\G-Force\Sprites\(Default).txt

On Mac OS X:
HOME/Library/Application Support/SoundSpectrum/G-Force/Sprites/(Default).txt

Open this file in any text editor (eg. Notepad or TextEdit). G-Force displays images as "Sprites" and the "(Default).txt" file controls how sprites are drawn to the screen. Though the variables and values available in this file may seem a bit daunting, every one of them is commented so that you may hopefully be able to get your images to display as you like. Specifically, look at "Pen", "EPen", and the "Blend" and "Alpha" flags.

[Wombat66]

Motohead, you might be on to something! (or should I say "on something") In anycase, if you do experiment with what sitsparky pointed out, please reply back with your findings. I agree that having a "slideshow program" that can beat cut the images would be desirable.

Cheers!

[jerohm]

It is hard to think of a way other than scripting. I created 'Primary.map', a RGB colormap where the lower order 64 bins provide for a gradient from black to white ... The other (3) 64 bin sequences address the primary colors, Red, Yellow, and Blue (just because that is what I chose!).

If you:
a) Disable (Waveshape|Particle|Sprite|Colormap) slideshows, (Flowfields don't matter!)
... you CAN, of course, leave the Sprite slideshow Enabled!
b) Kill All running Particles & Sprites
c) set Waveshape to '(None)'
d) set Colormap to any map that mimics MY first 64 entries
e) display a specific Sprite (photo in your case)

Here is an example script 'CTRL Z.txt' :
(displaying a Single random Sprite)

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SetVerboseMode( 1 );

SetSlideShow( CONFIG_WAVESHAPE | CONFIG_COLORMAP | CONFIG_SPRITE | CONFIG_PARTICLE, false );

KillRunningSprites( 0 );
KillRunningParticles( 0 );

SetColorMap( "Primary", 0);
SetWaveShape( "(None)", 0 );

StartRandomSprite();	// Pay attention to Display time

0:25
SetSlideShow( CONFIG_WAVESHAPE | CONFIG_COLORMAP | CONFIG_SPRITE | CONFIG_PARTICLE, true );

SetVerboseMode( 0 );

you will notice that the Sprites (backgrounds) are displayed as 'vanilla' B&W images... (62 grey shades are plenty) try it!
... ( remember, 'filename~.ext' will be negatives!)


If you left the Sprite slideshow Enabled (not in my example!), sit back and watch your collection. Of course using 'Primary.map' as the Colormap, with Waveshapes ENABLED, works just fine... but the chosen colors may not meet YOUR expectations/desires ... the Sprites [backgrounds] will still be in B&W... BUT POSSIBLY obscured by other screen activity.... (makes sense?)

You can Enable all the slideshows after some given interval.

'Primary.map' (fixed 04Oct2010):

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another nice alternative 04Oct2010 :
(now if ONLY I could convert it to png format!)

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