Re: [e-users] Question on E17 animated backgrounds

[Carsten H. (T. R. <ra...@ra...>]

On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 09:50:13 +0200 Mirek <thu...@cz...> babbled:

> You can try switch CONTAINER to GL mode, if you have working OpenGL 
> (only Nvidia works good for me) and evas compiled with GL engine.
> 
> Try these patches, recompile e and use this command:
> "enlightenment_remote -engine-set CONTAINER GL" then restart E17 and it 
> should render background in OpenGL, which is much more faster (10x for me).

actually - GL engine is not supported. it won't work. enlightenment_remote code
explicitly forbids it. there are bugs that will cause all sorts of problems if
you do.

> Mirek
> 
> Daniel Kasak napsal(a):
> > Greetings all.
> > 
> > I've been working with a friend on an animated background. What we've 
> > done is take a project in The Gimp, and rendered a LARGE series of 
> > images, changing the transparency of one of the layers by a very small 
> > amount each time.
> > 
> > When we make an animated background from this series of images ( 88 of 
> > them ), the effect is very nice ( we think so anyway ), but it uses a 
> > LOT of CPU - even if we spread the animation out over 1 minute.
> > 
> > Apart from culling our number of images ( which we'd rather not do, as 
> > the image transitions become noticable when we do this ), is there any 
> > other approach we can use? In particular, is there any way of just using 
> > 2 images, and getting E to modify the transparency of one of them? Or is 
> > our only option to use a series of images, as we've done?
> > 
> > Thanks :)
> > 
> > Dan
> > 
> > 
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