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Help Wanted
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LittleSpooky said on June 23, 2005 02:52:
I’m looking at designing some screensavers. I’ve found several programs that are good for that, but I also want to sell some for a couple of bucks.
Once again, I open myself to ridicule when I say this:
I’m the ’Captain’ of the IKV Laughing Mink (Imperial Klingon Vessel). We’re a Star Trek oriented ship based on the Klingon Empire. I want to be able to design some screensavers for the crew to have as we amass pictures from events, I also want to sell some of our screensavers to help “fund” the ship. When I say fund, I mean: If someone doesn’t have enough $$ for an event, we can draw the money out to help cover (like for a trip out of town for all of us) and then they can pay it back.
I also want to be able to sell some for a charity of our choice. Haven’t decided what that is, it might be several. Anyway... any designers out there that can help me out with this? I’d appreciate it.
Cheers
LittleSpooky said on June 23, 2005 07:38:
Kazz: Mostly things like crew pictures. Then “event” pictures: Us attending conventions or doing fundraisers, stuff like that.
I’m working on conatcting someone to see if we could contract her services as a seamstress for costumes, once we pick out ship “colours”. Those are things that go on our banners to identify who we are.
ally77 said on June 23, 2005 09:07:
Sounds good, I would like to see them! Hope you get some help for them LS
LittleSpooky said on June 24, 2005 06:21:
Well, I bought the screensaver software from these guys:
http://www.xemico.com And I bought the one that was priced at $29.90 and then threw an extra $10 into the mix to get Claudio, it’s a music mixer. So, I’m gonna mess with the program (Screensaver) and see what I can come up with.
kachina008 said on June 24, 2005 07:59:
RPG stuff eh? sounds a little like the online game I play, called eve :)
g’luck with your screensavers spooky. good to see you back online (probably missed the story after the job incident...)
LittleSpooky said on June 25, 2005 02:08:
Kachina: I’ve still been around.. I just wasn’t sure what my finances were gonna look like.
LittleSpooky said on June 25, 2005 08:12:
So I’ve created 2 screensavers now:
1 with pix of a couple of WWE wrestlers (okay... most of the pix are of Randy Orton, but I have a couple of Dave Batista thrown in there too)
1 of my cat, Satan. Some are from the first day I brought him home, some are of the first couple of weeks. One’s real recent... he’s sleeping on my printer.
LittleSpooky said on June 26, 2005 15:58:
WOOOO!!!!
Got the issue with the music solved!!!!
I was having troubles getting noise to play while looking through the screensaver pix. Solved that little turkey on my own!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
DONE!
LittleSpooky said on July 4, 2005 08:52:
One more time of dragging it to the top:
I did a Google Search for Roxette pictures and downloaded quite a few of them. I have now created a screensaver that, for like my 5th attempt, ain’t too shabby.
It’s a bit long... I used the following songs in it:
Opportunity Nox
Stupid
The Centre of the Heart
Little Miss Sorrow
However, I’ll probably go through and rename most of the pictures and then nail it down to maybe one or 2 songs a run. If anyone’s interested in seeing it... lemme know. It is a large file to email with.
Cheers
LittleSpooky said on July 14, 2005 00:46:
Yes. Sorta. Because I chose the “random” option for pics to load / unload, somtimes the pic group out lasts the song... sometimes the pic group cuts off the end of the song. If I change it again, I’m going to set it and then recount pix so it’s a bit more even
LittleSpooky said on July 14, 2005 19:53:
It’s actually quite easy.
You’ve seen screensavers. Some pics move off the screen one way, others move off in another way, and some are totally random in how they appear / disappear from the screen. Well, I can pick the way that they do that. The issue I’m having surrounds song length.
For example: Opportunity Nox is 24 images long
Stupid is 27-28
The Centre of the Heart is approximately 25 -28
Little Miss Sorrow covers the rest.
The reason Stupid and TCOTH have “variables” like that is because of how long some of the pics take to load up on the screen / fade off the screen. It’s set to show the image for 7 seconds and then move on to the next... but that’s after the image is up FULLY on the screen. 7 seconds doesn’t include the load up time (the wipe is pretty quick).
Kazza said on June 23, 2005 07:08:
I haven’t any experience at designing screensavers myself but, as a Trekkie I’d certainly be interested in what you eventually come up with.