Bubbles Screensaver (Multi Monitor)

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 )

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

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

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

not bad your screensaver. the bubbles are funny . it is a very good idea

look very nice (it's now my default screensaver) - i like the 3d mode most

AVG anti virus claims it contains a trojan. It probably isn't but I can't get it to run at any rate...a video would be nice though

cartoon_baboon

cant download it-'serverconnection was reseted'

Cool
But I've to admit that the 3D-Mode makes me a bit dizzy


Well, that's strange. I guess that the Nacasi and/or AutoIt script gets AVG to suspect this file. But as you already mentioned, I can confirm you that there is no trojan in it, you may just could try to set an exception for it.
It's a little bit complicated to capture a multi-monitor environment, I may could only try to capture it on a single one, but it isn't that exciting - it's a screensaver


Just try it again, I don't know about any server problems (I'm the server admin - may that's the problem ^^)


By the way, I'm currently developing on a version which makes it possible to see an active desktop through the screensaver. That means you don't see any screenshot as a background but the real desktop which could change (for example, when watching a movie) and the screensaver is rendered on top of it.
Even the real bubbles screensaver from windows isn't able to do this!

Regards
TSGames

Wow work really whell I not understad german a option for change the language can be good

One of the best software made with gamestudio I see