After "perfecting" a script in iTunes, I then had Darkroom render it for me, but the waveshapes — which had been thick and easily visable — became thin; and their subsequeent interaction with wallpaper flowfields less visable.
is this something I can address in the script, or in Darkroom's preferences?
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I've tried different codecs for the output movie, but keep getting the same result—much thinner waveshapes than appear in G-Force running in iTunes.
It's while using a wallpaper background —E.R. Eschers Dream. What happens in iTunes is the waveshape appear as a much more robust line, and then is echoes in the wallpaper, creating a repeating pattern. When run through Darkroom, the waveshape is more anemic and the wallpaper pattern is barely visible.
It's while using a wallpaper background —E.R. Eschers Dream. What happens in iTunes is the waveshape appear as a much more robust line, and then is echoes in the wallpaper, creating a repeating pattern. When run through Darkroom, the waveshape is more anemic and the wallpaper pattern is barely visible.
Solution!
After poking around in the innards of both the G-Force boot.txt file and the Darkroom prefs file, I discovered a solution.
First, if one wanst to change the thickness of lines as displayed while G-Force is running within iTunes, you add this line to your script:
SetPref( PREF_LINE_WIDTH_SCALE, 1.0 );
and change the number 1 to various other numbers until it looks right to you. 1 is normal, 5 is much thicker and 10 is unseemly fat.
This however does nothing for Darkroom when it is rendering the movie of that script. Darkroom seems to ingnore that line. Probably because it's setting a preference for G-Force.
But within the Preferences file for Darkroom (which, by the way, could stand a glossary) is a line that reads
LWOf=0
I wold have thought this stood for Line Width Offset, since there is such a pref in the boot.txt for G-Force. But increasing the number from 0 to a higher number (I used 5) makes the waveshape line thicker. Which solved my problem for this particular script. It may ruin other scripts, so setting it back to 0 and then relaunching Darkroom might be necessary.
First, if one wanst to change the thickness of lines as displayed while G-Force is running within iTunes, you add this line to your script:
SetPref( PREF_LINE_WIDTH_SCALE, 1.0 );
and change the number 1 to various other numbers until it looks right to you. 1 is normal, 5 is much thicker and 10 is unseemly fat.
This however does nothing for Darkroom when it is rendering the movie of that script. Darkroom seems to ingnore that line. Probably because it's setting a preference for G-Force.
But within the Preferences file for Darkroom (which, by the way, could stand a glossary) is a line that reads
LWOf=0
I wold have thought this stood for Line Width Offset, since there is such a pref in the boot.txt for G-Force. But increasing the number from 0 to a higher number (I used 5) makes the waveshape line thicker. Which solved my problem for this particular script. It may ruin other scripts, so setting it back to 0 and then relaunching Darkroom might be necessary.