LFS Forum - Screensaver

#1 - Ant

Screensaver

Sun, 9 Sep 2007 21:52

Screensaver

I had a go at making a Windows screensaver. I noticed that the CMX car models format was available, so I adapted a screensaver I had previously made to read them.

It uses the files from the CMX Viewer S2S, so you will need to point it at that so it had a car and textures to display.
http://www.lfs.net/?page=addons

Sorry in advance for the people who it doesn’t work for.

Enjoy

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#2 - VTiRoj

Sun, 9 Sep 2007 21:53

Where does one put the .scr file?

#3 - alxf1

Sun, 9 Sep 2007 22:41

great, can you add a skins directory path setting to it... so it use only the skins I want ;-)

#4 - Zachary Zoomy

Sun, 9 Sep 2007 23:03

anything for mac?

#5 - Mithras

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:28

Gahh, it requires Directx9..

Any chance someone could "downgrade" it?

Oh and VTi, you simply download it, right-click the file, and hit install

#6 - VTiRoj

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:38

Ah, thanks.

Okay now it complains about d3dx9_3.dll not being found?

Edit: Oh, I see DX9 is Direct X 9, so I downloaded the latest update and it works!

Sweet screensaver!!

#7 - Lightsaver

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 01:36

Nice one, thank you for this tool.

Could u add an option to select 2 or 3 cars to be shown?

#8 - troy

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 06:58

Quote from alxf1 :great, can you add a skins directory path setting to it... so it use only the skins I want ;-)

just copy your skins folder (or just some particular skins) from lfs to the one of the cmx viewer, then it will randomly change cars and skins, you can do the same with the dds folder if you got custom dds modifications by the way.

to the author:
it can look quite nice with all that but even the bare version of it produces huge cpu load for me, not really the thing i want a screensaver to do. would be a really nice thing if you could reduce the load a bit, i never use screensavers normally but i would definatly let that one run as often as possible

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