Hey all,

for a few months I already introduced this project, I just want to re-show it because of a new, interesting feature support which might interests some of you.

Bubbles is a screensaver which produces colored bubbles all over the screen while you still see an image of your desktop. It features background-fading out, configuring the bubble count and size as well as a "3d-mode". (It's similar to the Vista/7 integrated one, except that you can configure it as you want to)



With the latest version, bubbles produces the whole thing over all connected monitors (multi montior system).


(I've to disappoint you, that's not my place of work wink )

If you're also have a multi-monitor system, it would be nice if you could give it a try (of course, anyone else could also use it):
Bubbles Download

I wonder if there is anybody out who has more than 4 monitors connected to one pc. If so, it would be nice if he could tell me if it also works for him wink

But for the most of you, technically details matters. So here is how I've done it:
  • Before the gamestudio application starts, an external program takes an screenshot of the entire desktop
  • I start the engine in window mode, remove the window border and read the "virtual" desktop area through the sys_metrics values.
  • I scale the whole engine window over the complete desktop area
  • The bubbles are spherical, invisible physical models and I attached a sprite at there position
  • The "screenshot" of the desktop is an sprite entity

I'm curious how you like this try wink

P.S.: In the picture you can see above the screensaver was running on a system with 2 9800 GTX graphic cards. I don't figured out how the system handles the rendering over 2 different graphic cards.

Regards
TSGames


Last edited by TSG_Torsten; 02/02/10 19:06.