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I was just wondering what Deskscapes users and potential users would like to see in Deskscapes 3.2
I know there is interest in having some form of timed animations back, but I was wondering if there were other features you would like to see, or if there are any issues you have encountered with Deskscapes 3.1.
I'd like to see deskscape 3.2 work on my Vista Ultimate computer. That would be nice.
I would like to see, if it's even possible... A deskcape of a face constantly changing to another face or form. I love those.
A cruise ship with lights and people dancing, swimming, and a rogue wave appears....... 
OK, no wave. Or maybe.....
Wonder if there is any way to add transition effects when using the random changer?
"fuckin"? Learn to use your computer and you won't have any problems.
Neil: I have all your dreams and would really like to see more. You seem to put more effort in quality and I'd love to see more abstact and maybe more "theme" dreams (music, horror, fantasy) other than just scenic dreams. And thank you.
Okay Neil GOOD question.
In 3.2 I Wanna see the trigger issue fixed. That issue has me perturbed right now because I have some Premium Triggered dreams that I paid for that won't work now. Other than the the Trigger for time/or other other triggers not working Deskscapes is great. I hope this patch comes soon and addresses trigger issues.
I want to see the triggered dreams working again. Vista lake triggered is one of my favorites. I use none of the new effects as I don't like distortions of images (old time still photographer) and so I really can't see why this was taken out to begin with. Maybe you can make two versions if you can't make one that will do both. Or maybe make the old version available again so I can reinstall over the new one.
My crummy old nvidia card can DXVA mpeg 4 video...a video encoded x264 at 1920x1200 offloads to the gpu...almost not using the cpu...that would help run dreams a LOT. 
Deskscapes works great for me since i got a better video card.
Thanks for all of your hard work on this app. Just love it 
Yes Deskscapes works good.. BUT there is the issue of Triggers not working. Flash support and transitions would be good. I just think that the broke things need to be fixed.
Thanks for askin Neil.
I hope to see this update soon
More ability to customize and work on multiple monitors.
For example, right now I have liquid dream running on three monitors. The way it works now, the effects and the background image are the same on all three (clones), which isn't bad, but I'd like to be able to get a more seamless experience with something like a properly tiled background. Or let me specify a different background (or effect) on any of the different monitors, even if using the same dream.
I'd like to be able to configure it so that a different wallpaper is used on each of the screens (or, if possible, have it set up so that it will properly tile a 3 monitor wallpaper across the screens, in the same manner that the tile feature in windows does).
Even better, let the dream be configured to span the entire space defined by the multiple monitors. For example in my 3 monitor setup (3 x 1680 x 1050), let the dream be configured to present a single experience across all three monitors.
I think it would be appropriate to treat the whole workspace as a single workspace, no matter how many monitors are involved. This might not be easily possible with video dreams, but it should be doable with dynamic dreams.
I'm pretty happy with the current state of multi monitor support, it's definitely better than what we had before, but I think it would be nice if we could get more contol over *all* of the presentation for a multi monitor setup.
drat. Cars beat me to it. OK, yeah. What he said.
Also: A "Rebuild List" option like Windowblinds has.
Speed control is not supported by the standard Microsoft mpeg2 decoder.
There is no need for a rebuild list option like WindowBlinds has as Deskscapes does not use a cache file for the skin list.
Should you copy in new files to a folder and wish to update the UI while the app is open just press F5. Any changes made while the app is closed would show up automatically anyway.
Dynamic dreams can already treat the entire space as a single workspace if they wish. Likewise video dreams can be stretched to fill multiple screens - just see the stretch over monitors and fill monitors background settings modes.
It is unlikely multiple screens with the same dream will ever get different effects. It simply isn't worth the overhead that such a feature would introduce.
The background image used by a dynamic dream would again be specific to the dream and if the dream was aware of multiple screens then it could load up multiple images for a background.
The SDK for the dynamic dreams was supposed to be released by now. I will try to get this out soon as all the files were finished up a long time ago.
Cool. I guess I just didn't notice those settings.
Apparently the liquid dream isn't specifically aware of multiple monitors, no matter what background I give it, it gets applied to them all (even if I rename a copy of it to use on another screen). Oh well
Thanks 
Neil, I'm having a problem with "Stars". I accidently deleted it and when I downloaded it again it crashes Deskscapes. All other dreams work fine. Is there something I'm missing? Thanks.
I don't actually see any settings in the configuration window that resembles the above. I've got the latest version, according to Impulse, and I don't see those in either the 'Background Options' dropdown, or on any pane of the 'Settings' dialog.
Is this maybe a feature that hasn't escaped out to the wild yet?
Thanks
Note that by copying a new renamed version of a given dream into the Dream directory (say Photodream-B, Photodream-C, etc.) you can have different settings/backgrounds/etc. for each monitor's dream in a multimonitor environment.
I am running my tri-monitor setup that way, so that each monitor is Photodream'ing a different image. In my case, I selected the same tiling background for all three, so that while the animating image is different on each screen, the background looks seamless between them all.
I hope that helps!
Oh, and the CPU usage in this scenario is basically nil, as each separate dream/screen is GPU accelerated separately. 8)
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