Workflow Diagram For Stim/response

[sparhawk]

For the mapping people among our fans, especially the ones with dromed experience, I thought we should share some technical info concerning the design of The Dark Mod to give you an overview what you can expect. Below is attached the workflow diagram that explains in a clear and concise manner how events are handled within the Stim/Response system of TDM. As you can see for yourself it is powerfull and easy to understand, while at the same time elegant and clear in implementation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[gleeful]

what the?!

 

have you been sampling the christmas-punch again?

 

[TrevP]

Haha, that image tiles too. I remember seeing a YTMND with it.. it's quite entrancing fullscreen/tiled.

[sparhawk]

Whats a YTMND? I would like to see this tiled. Must be quite disconcerning to see this full screen.

[OrbWeaver]

It's amazing that you can trace a single ball all the way down the image, and yet the whole thing is only a few frames long.

[Dram]

i understood it perfectly

 

[Fingernail]

www.ytmnd.com

[pakmannen]

Best post ever!

 

(I uploaded a tiled on here. It's great )

[sparhawk]

It's amazing that you can trace a single ball all the way down the image, and yet the whole thing is only a few frames long.

 

The whole image is tiled itself. I think it was created such, that each block is self containing, and then they were joined together. I could be wrong though.

[Maximius]

Thats a really neet thingy, I tried to set it as wallpaper but it wont run. The best part is down the bottom with the two guys, all that processing and in the final step they drop it down a hole in the floor. This has got to be a great metaphor for something...

[sparhawk]

I heard that XP supports animated GIFs as wallpaper.

[bob_arctor]

It does.

[Domarius]

XP (and Win9x with the Microsoft Plus! expansion) has a feature called "Active Desktop."

 

Anything that can be viewed in a browser, can be your desktop. i.e. an entire html page, with shockwave anims, etc.

 

Basically you have a web browser as your desktop.

[sparhawk]

What a joy.

 

Well, I guess CPU power HAS to be burned one way or the other. How else should it be justified?

[Domarius]

The idea is you have some important page there, like the latest stock/share prices if you are a big business man, or the weather if you're a pilot.

 

Personally I'm just glad you can use any wallpaper image other than BMPs now. That's the real use of it. I remember having to choose between activating "Active Desktop" in Win98, or convert the image to BMP. I chose the latter because I noticed an actual performance decrease with Active Desktop. But now with WinXP its on by default and my computer still runs faster than with Win98, so I haven't changed it.

[ZylonBane]

ActiveDesktop is the perfect way to instantly tell if you're dealing with a N00B's computer.

 

If you want to use a non-BMP picture as a wallpaper, just drag-drop it onto the IE icon, then set as wallpaper.