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Is it possible (and maybe an eventual feature of DesktopX on Vista) to create objects and environments in full 3D, rendered by the WDM, that can interact both with triggers and with user input? I can see some phenomenal possibilities if the whole desktop is an intercative 3D area capable of reacting to conditions and user actions. So I'm reading above that the Vista desktop is a full 3D surface. It'll be like the static wallpapers of the present except with more frames. When perfected, you'll have it without any performance or usability drawbacks.

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While the concept of them isn't new (lots of people/developers have hacked at it for years), the key thing about Windows DreamScene / Stardock DeskScapes is that you get to have your cake and eat it too. We hope you have fun with this and that as time goes on, more and more people will come to find that animated wallpapers are pretty nice.

Essentially, we created a host of high quality, high definition video content for the Microsoft project and Microsoft chose some to distribute and we kept the rest to distribute.

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We'll be providing additional free content on over the coming weeks, months. And it costs nothing to create them (use DreamMaker) and nothing for Windows Vista Ultimate users to use them.

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DREAM you get all the advantages I mention above plus you know it's designed to be an animated wallpaper. But consider this - which will be easier to find in a year from now to use as your animated wallpaper? Googling. You don't need DeskScapes to play video (MPEG or WMV) content as your animated wallpaper. Probably the key thing that Stardock DeskScapes does is extend Windows DreamScene to support the. It's not that huge of a thing but something that wasn't hard to do that we think enriches the experience. For instance, IF time is morning, then play wallpaper A, IF Time is afternoon, play wallpaper B and so forth. Triggers are another way of saying that if a certain condition is met, then do something. DeskScapes Enhancement #3: TriggersД«ased on time of day your wallpaper can change. As they get finished, we'll be releasing them. Obviously, it does take more work to make a good looking dynamic wallpaper but the results can be really cool. All are in various states of development. My screenshot here is pretty lame but we've got earth rotating, snow/rain (based on weather - there's probably a sunny one but we're in Michigan) ones, fish swimming, lava lamps, etc. That means you can do some pretty cool stuff with it.such as dynamic animated wallpapers. It's as if they took the Quake 3 engine and made the game look like Windows. It simply looks like previous versions of Windows. Most reviewers haven't talked much about this but the Windows Vista desktop IS A 3D SURFACE. That's because modern video cards have the horse power to do amazing things. Modern video games generally don't use pre-rendered video anymore. World rotates in real-time (which is very slowly actually) This image is being rotated on the fly in 3D in total smoothness So no one knows who created the cool animated Aurora default in Windows DreamScene ( Stardock Design created it incidentally) DeskScapes Enhancement #2: Dynamic Wallpaper Dream file, the title and author information comes up.Д«y contrast, Windows DreamScene on its own, as cool as it is, doesn't display author info. Once it's installed, your regular Windows wallpaper manager in Vista is simply extended to support. The first thing about DeskScapes - there is no program to run. Imagine an animated wallpaper that's a city scene in the morning, afternoon, and night that switches based on time of day?ДeskScapes Enhancement #1: Authors getting creditДeskScapes allows author information to be displayed and that info can be linked to your website.

How about having triggers? So even if I'm not up to making a dynamic wallpaper, I could still have 2 or 3 or more videos that are switched to based on certain condition (triggers) being met. Or heck, how about having a high-definition video feed from a tropical island so that I can pretend it's not snowing outside.

But what about dynamic content? You know, fish swimming, wallpaper that changes based on weather or time of day, or randomly. Looping high-definition video content looks great. MPEG was even meant to be an animated wallpaper? If users have to sift through hundreds of animated raccoons and children playing baseball to find something they'd actually want as their wallpaper, the whole concept could die quickly.

How do authors get credit? If I spend 3 weeks making a good animated wallpaper, I want users to know I made it and be able to visit me to get more. A good animated wallpaper is a lot of work.

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