DeskScapes 3.2 Final Beta on Impulse

Published on June 10, 2010 By Island Dog In WinCustomize News

The final beta for DeskScapes 3.2 is available for download on Impulse. The final release of v3.2 will be coming soon, but you can get a head start with the latest beta which includes many tweaks and feature additions since the last version.

Some of the highlights of 3.2 are:

New coloring tab for static wallpapers
Triggered .dream support added back
Combine effects feature (Vista/Win7)
Expanding shapes dynamic .dream included
Eight new effects added (blue channel, red channel, fuzzy focus, blur, and more)
Various fixes and tweaks

More information about DeskScapes, including links to the free trial can be found here!

Comments (Page 2)

Excalpius

on Jun 15, 2010

Effects work on ALL dreams and always have done.

Au contraire, my fine amigo, I have tested this on Vista 32 on a one monitor system (nvidia graphics) and Windows 7 x64 with 3 monitors (nvidia graphics) and while the preview shows an effect working on Photodream, hitting Apply causes the monitor to refresh one image every X seconds, smearing the background, and losing the background image, etc. Then it kills all the dreams (on the multiple monitors) etc.

BUT, for you, sir, I just did a test on an ATI radeon equipped Windows 7 x64 and it worked!!! So methinks this is an nvidia to Photodream/dynamic dreams issue.

Note that video dreams with effects work fine on all platforms I have tested.

Excalpius

on Jun 17, 2010

Hey amigo! After much trial and error, I have narrowed the bug down for ya. 8)

In the latest Deskscapes rev, the problem ONLY occurs in the Photodream dream when "Move picture in three dimensions" is Enabled and only on Nvidia graphics cards. It just so happens that this is my default hardware/dream configuration for every monitor I own, haha.

The background refresh/redraw disappears entirely (it is not drawn or redrawn) and the animated picture moves for about one second, leaving a trail artifact behind, before it just freezes.

This does not happen if any of these conditions are not met.

I hope that helps you narrow it down to a specific line of code.

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