VidGen 2 - Socoder

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Socoder -> Art and Sound -> VidGen 2
Fri, 12 Apr 2024, 01:30
Jayenkai	VidGen 2 Over the past few days, I've been working on a new version of my music video generator thing. It's nothing too complicated, right now, but I've been working tirelessly on the quality of the spectrum analysis, and now that it seems to be functioning to a decent enough set of capabilities, I'm now moving on to adding a few generators. Alongside each generator are a bunch of settings, and also a few presets per generator. This gives MUCH more variety in the output of the effects, and should help my ALChoon videos have a little less monotony when I can't be bothered to make a "proper" animation for that week's choon. Currently the engine only ever runs at 1920x1080. I'll have to add some settings to the thing to let it generate at lower resolutions for folk with lesser hardware, and it might also be nice to add a couple of different ratios for those YouTube Shorts or TikTok videos, too. What I also want to do is add some sort of lyric engine into the mix, whereby I can paste all the lyrics into a single box, then tap keys when the words should appear. I think that'll probably be the easiest way to handle that. But that requires GUI work, and who can be bothered with that!?!? You can Play with VidGen2 here. The site will eventually overwrite the original VidGen, but first I need to bulk it all up a bit more. How To 1. Load a song using the input box on the top left. 2. Pick a Generator 3. Twiddle the options, or select a preset. Hold the mouse down on the timeline to see the video from that point, or hit the Capture button to capture the entire video. It definitely needs a play button, though, as the "mouse down" bit isn't working on iOS for some reason. (and, yes, I added touches!!!) -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Mon, 15 Apr 2024, 03:44
Jayenkai	Been bulking up Vidgen2 over the weekend, and it now has a bunch more generators, including an isometric dancing cityscape, some nice retro fireworks, a swirling vortex of growing dots, and some lovely spectrum bar things. Mmmmm.. Vidgen2!! -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Mon, 22 Apr 2024, 10:17
Jayenkai	Flasher gives a few spots that flash, whilst mirroring on both horizontal and vertical axis. Lightning looks fairly similar, but always emanates from the middle of the screen. Orbs is one of those ones that only ever really looks good if you have "Feedback" switched on. and Zoom Geometry can create all manner of crazy patterns. I also tried adding an all-round Kaleidoscope effect, but couldn't find a quick way to pull it off at such a high resolution. I'm starting to think I might need a low-res offscreen buffer to do a few extra optical techniques. Hmmm.. You can Play with VidGen2 here. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Sat, 27 Apr 2024, 03:18
Jayenkai	Spent a little time with VidGen yesterday, mostly to take my mind off of the JSE Transpiler for a bit, and managed to make a few nice effects. I could really do with working out a decent way of adding after-effects, now. Symmetry, mirroring, kaleidoscope, things like that. Those oughta be easy enough with "Draw the canvas onto itself" techniques, but things like warping and such will be incredibly hard with the canvas being 1920x1080. All that maths just ain't going to be happening in realtime!! -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Sat, 27 Apr 2024, 04:39
Dan	Can you make an option for the mountains in "the synth road" to be filled, with different colors for each row ? It would make a nice parallax effect. And btw: They kinda remind me of Captain Blood (the amiga/c64 game)...
Sat, 27 Apr 2024, 07:37
Jayenkai	Sure thing. I've also been adding "Symmetry, mirroring, kaleidoscope, things like that", which have turned out pretty nice, though can cause extra chunky slowdown depending on your system.. Mmmm! You can Play with it, here. Be sure to refresh it, in case it doesn't do that. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Sun, 28 Apr 2024, 06:03
Jayenkai	Gave the interface a rejig. Options are now in the bottom corner, with a new Random button, which is great for experimenting with the different styles. The presets are now in a HUGE list on the left, with all presets for all styles ready to be clicked at your whim. The "timeline" is now up at the top. I've reserved a small section underneath the timeline, to account for future timeline additions. I'd like to add lyrics and maybe transitions into there, but we'll see how far we get with that!!! Other things I'd like to add in the future. The preset array is a lot neater, now, so I should be able to easily add some kind of Load/Save/Delete preset functionality at some point.. Maybe even a share function, too. I should also be able to save the current settings, so refreshing the page won't reset everything. You'll still have to load in your song, though! Can't magically redo that. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''