What will the software requirements be and what programming languages can be used? Should anyone wanting to use the SDK also be skilled in DirectX programming or will your SDK be a complete solution including shaders and all the other nice 3D stuff?
I've purchased all of Stardock's dreams except the Wallpaper Changer and the Shapes one, but I plan to add these two soon to my collection (just waiting to see if the wallpaper changer one will be updated to use multiple folders or if there will be a new one which will not be an update that will be released). I can therefore attest that it is really worth the few dollars they ask for it. A few years ago I read from a developer /affiliate in the Regnow forums that TBYB is not such an goo
I've released a product that can do that on the 1st of May but I'm currently busy ironing out a few bugs and should complete it by tomorrow or early next week. This project was started a long time ago and had the capability to change animated wallpapers in XP. When the .dreams came out it was very easy to accommodate them as the program already had the capability to schedule animated wallpaper. Apart from animated wallpapers it can also change static wallpaper and you can mix and match
Maybe Stardock can implement an user selectable option in future versions of Deskscapes where the user can either choose to have a predefined static image displayed at system startup or leave it as it currently is. They can even go further and if the user choose to have a static image displayed at startup to provide the location of the image he/she want displayed. I think addressing the issue Agrabren has pointed out above is also very important. At least .dreams should be clearly indic
Hi Agrabren, So it won't affect dreams like BlissfulSunset? That dream is not dynamic but it is in the .dream format and it requires Deskscapes but Desktop Earth on the other hand is dynamic. So will there be differentiated between .dream files that is dynamic and others that is not dynamic when such a change is implemented?
Hi Kris and everybody else, I just rebooted my pc from XP into Vista Ultimate. Immediately after the Vista desktop displays there was a static image of the BlissfulSunset dream. A few seconds later the static image smoothly transitioned into the animation of the waving grass on the hill. I really like it working this way. With all the dreams I've currently have on my system it is only when I switch from Desktop Earth to any other dream that there is not a smooth transition. It
As far as I know it is not a bug as I see this type of thing happen daily in Windows XP using animated wallpaper or even static wallpaper.
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