Needed G-Force Features

Post by **andy55** » Sat May 01, 2004 5:56 pm

What, if any, features should be added to G-Force?

gschentag · Post by **gschentag** » Mon May 03, 2004 1:19 am

Hi Andy,

Great software!

I use G-Force standalone on a second monitor.
When I go full screen on the second monitor it looks great until I click somthing on the first monitor. Once I click on the first monitors desktop the second monitor's screen reverts to it's defualt size.

It would be great if the second monitor could stay full size, irrespective of what I did on the first monitor.

Best regards,

Glenn Schentag

Wombat66 · Post by **Wombat66** » Mon May 03, 2004 2:46 am

The addition of midi control would be great. Triggering images and video via midi note values would be quite valuable for live performance use. I would imagine other G-Force elements might also be modified using midi controller values.

Meanwhile I'm still loving G-Force.

Thanks!

JayPro · Post by **JayPro** » Mon May 03, 2004 9:32 am

...but I feel compelled to reiterate a suggestion I made twice before.

Pending the feasibility of this, I would *love* to see a Union config type that treats colormaps the same way as FlowFields (i.e. blending two CMpas in a patterened style).

Scott · Post by **Scott** » Mon May 03, 2004 5:45 pm

I like to listen to musicmatch radio.
I have G-force 2.6.1
I would like to see the album art and song titles like I see when I'm using G-Force with windows media center.
Is this possible with MMJB radio ?
G-force is the greatest !!!!

dirkdigital · Post by **dirkdigital** » Tue May 04, 2004 11:28 pm

...the only thing I think that needs any sorta change is the ability that when a song ends in full screen mode, you can use the escape key to go back to the desktop. (Like in 2.2, I belive). As it stands, it won't let ME exit out of the fullscreen mode unless I do <Alt> - <Tab>. Other than that...it truely is a marvel to behold.

Post by **andy55** » Wed May 05, 2004 1:58 pm

dirkdigital wrote:...the only thing I think that needs any sorta change is the ability that when a song ends in full screen mode, you can use the escape key to go back to the desktop. (Like in 2.2, I belive). As it stands, it won't let ME exit out of the fullscreen mode unless I do <Alt> - <Tab>. Other than that...it truely is a marvel to behold.

Well, that's an important bug report--I'll try to look into that one... What OS and player do you use?

DigiQ · Post by **DigiQ** » Wed May 05, 2004 2:09 pm

Hello Andy and SoundSpectrum Community,
I really enjoy this program. My favorite eyecandy! I’m no programmer, but I might try my hand at scripting a song or two with this program. I’m a teacher/songwriter who would like to arrange images and effects to my songs. Should I just wait for the GUI? I would like to “perform” a song, manipulating the G-Force controls and record the result in Quicktime? Is that possible now or a coming attraction? Also, I’ve inserted images into the sprite folder with only limited success and no real control. From reading your sites, it seems these controls might be coming.
Congratulations (and thanks) on your service to our country, and your success with these programs.
John Q.

JayPro · Post by **JayPro** » Wed May 05, 2004 4:05 pm

Andy has a new program out called SoundSpectrum Darkroom, which utilizes QT for whatever relevant file you wish to use. For instance, you have a musical score in QT compatible file? Just download Darkroom and follow the steps to integrate your piece with G-Force or WhiteCap (which, BTW, is *also* a choice piece of work if I do say so myself).

PS: Which kinds of sprites are you trying to load and what do you wish them to do? I recall in the pre-version2.6 builds, Andy had it arranged in such a way that a sprite could move around the screen in various trajectories, provided that a "helper" text file of sorts was placed in the Particles folder.

But then again, that was pre-v2.6 and much has changed. Now two types of effects (WaveShapes and Particles) have been coalesced into one and the Sprite configuration has also changed.

I'll certainly leave it to Andy to help clarify things for both of us here (and I have a gut feeling ther'll be a lot to clarify

).

Drowbe · Post by **Drowbe** » Wed May 05, 2004 6:47 pm

I'd love to see a thin, black (or configurable color) border around the track text that pops up. This would make it easier to read when the viz is bright.

--Thomas

hartsteins · Post by **hartsteins** » Thu May 06, 2004 3:17 am

Andy -

Awesome program. Easily the finest visualizer I've ever seen.

Any chance for Live video input as a new feature?

Right now I use a web-casting program (Imagecaster for mac) to repeatedly save an image into the sprites folder once every second. Then I wrote a script to repeatedly re-load that image. It's a sloppy work-around but it does work.

Is there a way to loop a particle call in a script?

Thanks for all your work.

Greg

JayPro · Post by **JayPro** » Thu May 06, 2004 8:18 pm

Drowbe wrote:I'd love to see a thin, black (or configurable color) border around the track text that pops up. This would make it easier to read when the viz is bright.

--Thomas

My opinion is that it might be easier to make the entire text color a 50%-between-black-and-white grey for easier viewing regardless of colormapping...with a black or white (whichever is easier to do) border for grey-based colormaps

soulfire · Post by **soulfire** » Fri May 07, 2004 3:13 am

A Gui would be grea for those of us who cannot script. Buttons and sliders man, make it accessable.

dirk_digital · Post by **dirk_digital** » Tue May 11, 2004 9:42 am

Windows XP with the latest service packs
WinAmp 5.03 (latest version)
G-Force 2.6.2 (rocks!)
AMD Athlon XP 2700
1024 333DDR Ram
nVidia GeForce FX 5200

Glad to be of assistance.

flamesong · Post by **flamesong** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 3:55 pm

It's probably very feeble of me but I'd like (and would gladly pay a reasonable amount for) a control panel/interface which allows me to cue up sprites and trigger events without getting my hands dirty.

I'm often asked if I can sync certain QT movies with certain tracks or if I can trigger a certain sprite at will. My answer is always that I am sure it is possible but I haven't been able to figure it out yet.

That said, I love what it does already - so much that I paid to go Gold and especially enjoy the extra ability to save effects as movies in Sound Spectrum Darkroom.

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