/ / Christmas visualizations for itunes Christmas visualizations for itunes Name: Christmas visualizations for itunes File size: 178mb Language: English Rating: 7/10 22 Mar If you're anything like me, you've probably long forgotten about iTunes Visualizers. Right now you're trying to remember what they are aren't. 24 May Since its very first version, iTunes has had a visualizer, a built-in light show that you can use to play trippy animations while you listen to music.
SoundSpectrum's Winter Wonders visualizer and screen saver has arrived Winter Wonders software will play within Windows Media Player or iTunes. 2 Jul However, all is not lost for habitual tweakers like myself; the iTunes Visualizer can satisfy your need to not leave well-enough alone. The visuals change automatically in synchronicity with the music as if the sound itself paints a moving picture. Our challenge in producing iTunes visualizers was. 5 Dec And yes I do mean visualizer - I use Plex as my home media center and it supports iTunes visualizers I just had a christmas playlist going.
2 Apr Download and install extra iTunes visualizer to get more fun from iTunes. 5 Beautiful iTunes visualizers are shared here, and pick out your. I don't have a solution for plugins (Dockart has also stopped working since ). But for full screen artwork, you could try Screensleeves which. Could someone tell me how to project itunes visualizer onto my wall at home? Good Luck, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
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24 Oct - 6 min - Uploaded by 3IGGB0SS HD A Kool Visualization by Disco Brick for iTunes. Amazing iTunes Visualizer (HD). 3 Dec - 4 min - Uploaded by Morphyre A selection of scenes from the Christmas Scene Pack for the Morphyre Music Visualizer (http. More:.
Correct me if I’m wrong but I think it’s been at least two Windows releases since any new or updated visualizations. Sure, what comes in the box are still visualizations by definition, but I couldn’t consider any of them eye-candy. Recently, a new visualization pack made by two Microsoft employees in their spare time is worth checking out., the designer of the Windows Vista screensavers and, a software engineer on the Office team have come together to release a visualizations pack for Windows Media Player called “”. But don’t worry, no involved. As a requirement to run these visualizations, you will need a graphics card that supports at least shader model 2.0 (most DirectX 9 graphics cards will), which might seem like a high requirement for visualizers, but how else are you suppose to create visual magic right? By golly these are the sort of neat things that Microsoft employees should be being paid to make.
Bundle it with the WMP download and give those chaps a bonus- this provides some much needed rejuvination to the WMP visualizations. If only WMP wasn’t so bloody flawed. The way it puts all mixed-artist-albums under the artist name ‘Various Arists’ when you sort by artist is almost enough to make me swith to iTunes I just want to see ALL my songs damnit. Sorted by artist. Is that really too much to ask?
Thanks for the positive review and comments! To clear some things up: dev time was more like several months’ worth of hobby coding, months and months of tweaking, and a year of bureaucracy. Hypnobloom does other colors! Your music is just purple music.
Try some talk radio or bitpop, you’ll get pretty blues and greens. Anon: Yep, they work in wmp11 in XP. Edward: My thoughts exactly ? jhon: do any of the others work? Your video card might not be shadertastic enough.
We do all of our blur in hardware so that we don’t chew CPU. What video card do you have? Matt Sharpe: customisability and extensibility is coming in ver 2. We’ll catch up, and in typical microsoft fashion, probably get it right in ver 3.1 ?. Deleting the files doesn’t work, they just reinstall themselves the next time I open WMP. (And by the way there are two separate folders, Visualisations and Visualizations!).
I’m running Windows XP Version 5.1 Build 2600, from 2001. I have an Intel 82865G Graphics Controller, I guess that means I don’t have a video card. Hmm, it sounds pretty inadequate, doesn’t it?
Your visualizations don’t do their full thing on my WMP, in fact they’re rather dull. The nature of the crash is that when I choose Hypnobloom Kandinsky from the submenus, the display freezes, and all I see is the submenus. If I go to fullscreen mode, or click on Library and then Now Playing again, they go away.
That’s the only visualization I’ve had that problem with. Slobone: yeah, you should instead go into control panel, then add/remove programs, find ‘next generation visualisations’ in the list, and remove it. The new setup scripts try to repair themselves if their files are deleted. Yep, your card is a dx8 / opengl 1.1 level card. We used dx9.0c / opengl 2.0 – specific features for these.phew- I was worried that we were bluescreening/rebooting your machine or managing to take windows down.
It sounds like the code is doing the right thing in your case. Sadly, this is unhelpfully boring and frustrating. To attempt to elicit a little sympathy – we thought about adding UI that would pop up and say “your video card isn’t expensive enough”, but if we’d done that, we would have had to translate it for every locale and with no actual budget we couldn’t do that. Hey Guys Downloaded the other day and spent a good half hour playing around with different types of music – best free vis’s available for WMP – well done. A couple didn’t work on my business spec lappy (appeared to keep playing the previously selected one) but reading above I gather that’s cos I don’t have a graphics card.
Now though, I get a BSOD if I go to the Now Playing tab in WMP – unless it runs in Safe Mode (like when you open it after a crash) any clues? I’ll just uninstall for now. Cheers Dan. I’m so happy to have some new visualizations in WMP. I had been using Itunes for the last few weeks on my new Comp, b/c I liked it’s vis. Better.but these just made me switch back to wmp. Also, it appears to use much less CPU time than itunes (I assume b/c of what you said about using hardware accel, vs.
Software), so that’s great! PS – current fave is hynobloom - Delerium Line Assembly Oh, one thing I noticed is that when WMP is maximized to full screen, the hypnobloom Delerium vis. Runs at considerably faster frame rate than when it’s not maximize (even if it is expanded to be as large as possible)just a note.
I actually like it better running at the slower frame rate. Sys Specs: EVGA 650i motherboard, Intel E6750, 2GB 800MHz RAM, EVGA 8600GT. Hi Mike, Sorry, the only “progress” I can report is that I have the same problem on my home machine. I’m running XP MCE with an Nvidia 7900GTX graphics card and none of the vis’s (including the default ones) run in media center.
Jordan, I think the speed-up is being caused by the fact that when not running full screen the image has to be rescaled to fit the window. As for the animation rate being tied to the frame rate, I’m just guessing but that sounds like the cause is slacker developers. ? take care, scoy. Sad to say the issues with MCE will probably never get fixed. I’m not even sure if it’s something that we’re doing or something that MCE is doing. I would guess that since the visualizations run fine under WMP that the problem is on the MCE side but that just may be the developer in me saying “not my fault”. ? Neither Tim nor I know anyone in the MCE team so we can’t go directly there for help.
Any MCE devs out there reading this? With our “day jobs” keeping both of us plenty busy it’s hard to find the time to dig into something like this. Stephen said, “Sorry, the only “progress” I can report is that I have the same problem on my home machine.
I’m running XP MCE with an Nvidia 7900GTX graphics card and none of the vis’s (including the default ones) run in media center.” FWIW, when I removed ‘next generation visualisations’ I was able to get the default visualizations to work in vista mce. I’d love to get that 3D album cover effect, and I’m disappointed I can’t, but I understand the day job issue.
You guys have done a great job getting these working to this level — too bad it’s hard to find the right people at microsoft to help you with the final mile. Best of luck. Sorry to hear about the bluescreening. It shouldn’t be possible to happen, it’d be interesting to get more details from you. In any case, your video card is underpowered for these vizzes. It’s only a directx 8.1 level card, and these vizzes require a directx 9.0 card at least. To remove them, just go to the control panel and use ‘remove programs’.
Look for ‘next generation visualizations’. You can also just go delete the dll files for the vizzes, which will be in c: program files windows media player visualisations or something very similar. I believe there is a simpler solution to your problem.
Somewhere I found ‘something’ that i’m sure will help solve the issues with this pack. Like everyone else.
I love these visualisations. And have run into the problems using it with MCE on my nice new Vista home premium laptop. Most ran today.
Working albeit intermittently at times. Like the others above I also have an NVidia card. Its an 8400M GS. Direct X 10, Shader 4. However now for some reason they wont work with MCE at all. The programmer in me hoped that this was some kind of error you could pin down. And knowing i’d being looking at album art 3d and upcuber a lot today I wondered if the issue was with another vis dll.
So I fiddled a bit. The goal to get them installed manually (otherwise your install reinstalls everything.).
First i tried another test. I replaced ALL your VIS DLLs with copies of a “known good” one that is fine without this pack installed. It didn’t work. So i took copies of the upCuber dll, the 4 dlls i think you use as helpers? (dont have depends.exe at home.) and.
Saved off the registry entry for upcuber + the clsid associated. After uninstalling the pack and then adding back the files and reg values. I’m pleased to say that so far (my favourite) upCuber works fine. Will try some more soon. Rob: Thanks ^^. You’ll get better perf out of them if you turn off transparency effects in the Vista desktop, they have to fight with it.
Each vis is contained within it’s dll, other than the directx dependencies. The names don’t match up exactly, for silly technical reasons. Clarity.dll is the ‘distortion’ vis. We don’t know what exactly is broken with media centre.
We will probably not find out, since we’re just going to make version 2 and test that on things while developing, and try to make it work everywhere. If you want to manually install/uninstall these dlls, they just have to be regsvr’d – so, from a command prompt in the same dir as the dlls: regsvr32 upcuber.dll will register that dll. To uninstall, regsvr32 /u upcuber.dll you will most likely have to do this from a command prompt with admin privileges, and you may need to do it in the same dir as the d3dxxx.dll files. I’d be interested in any more results you get out of this, and if you’d like to help with version 2, I’ve just got the prototype working and have put out the call for help. Check out my project blog for details:. @Tim Cowley: Wow, you guys really need to put this by default in WMP 12 or so on. It doesn’t make sense why WMP 11 (the best media management/playback program there is) doesn’t include these.
I always thought the WMP visualizations were lame compared to the ones in iTunes (on Mac). But I’m so impressed by these. I hope you guys continue working on even more visualizations. Oh, and on a side note: Would it hurt for Microsoft to tweak WMP to allow the Zune to work on it? Can’t you guys mix the best of the fluid ZMP UI, with the graphical elements of the WMP 11 UI? I mean, that would be the bomb.
The ULTIMATE media player ever. Just think about it, ok?
Michael: from what I’ve been able to ferret out, it’s always been like this; MS approaches outside designers, but they usually want WAY too much money. Or, the graphics projects are on the schedule but get cut to make more time available for actual feature work, and graphics hackers with too much energy implement something on their own. According to hallway rumor, the previous screensavers and vizzes were all like this. The iTunes vis was done the same way as the glowey lines screensaver on vista – contracted out to a design firm, rather than coded up by company people. Microsoft vga driver for xp. Ultimately, with so many great vizzes on the wmplugins site, and the testing cost and risk potential brought in by putting the things in the box, there’s very little reason for WM to include these. I’d certainly be happy to see it, but it’s unlikely. It’s not so bad, anyway: WMP’s embedded browser takes you to windowsmedia.com the first time you run it, so the visualisations are easily discoverable.
Web site stats show that psychedelia is getting 8 thousand downloads per day (740k at last count, 10% of those through the wmplugins site) so we’re not exactly toiling in obscurity. ? Maybe Dell will start installing them on their machines. I should ask them. As for the zune: you need to find the right people to talk to about that. I work in Office, and Stephen’s in Research.:/ My personal, ultra-cynical opinion, if you’d like to hear it, is that if we made Zune work with WMP, someone (coughapplecough) would attempt an antitrust suit against us, for something like exploiting our market dominance on the desktop to attack apple’s market dominance in digital music.
@Tim Crowley: Thanks for explaining. Wouldn’t it be better to just hire/keep these graphical designers, instead of depending on outside work? I mean, isn’t design just as important as function? 3rd party is of course nice. #1 reason why I love WMP 11, and the WMplugins site.
But having it included with the initial out-of-the-box experience, definitely boosts up the usage and discoverability. But it’s awesome people are discovering this. And if Apple complains and all, they’re being a hypocrite. That’s the exact same thing for Apple. You buy OS X on Macs only, you can (legally) manage your iPod on iTunes only, etc. To me, that seems MUCH more closed. WMP 11 supports a ton of add-ons, syncs with a ton of PlayForSure devices, many online stores, I mean, this is SO dumb.
That is pretty much VERY open. As if Zune + ZMP is any different from being ‘proprietary’. I just feel Microsoft has so much potential, but these little things stop it. Well anyways, it was great hearing your thoughts about this. Thanks for helping make this, and making this free. I would love to see more from any of the teams.
XP’s MCE has the same option to enable/disable which visualizations to use that I had found in Vista’s MCE, but I still had to unregister the albumart3d.dll from the system to get the other visualizations to work in XP’s MCE. I guess Vista’s MCE works differently with the visualizations. It’s handy that Vista’s MCE works just by removing the album art 3d from the settings because (as mentioned in my previous post) Vista wouldn’t allow me to unregister the dll. I had tried simply renaming the dll so it wouldn’t be found, but then the visualizations kept launching the installer (presumably to install the missing dll).
I don’t know if the installer would have done the same thing had I gotten regsvr32 to unregister the dll. On my XP system I encountered some difficulty when cycling through the visualizations in MCE where it would get stuck in one set and only cycle through those related visualizations and never go on to the next set. It wasn’t consistently the same set that it would get stuck on, so I don’t think it’s a particular DLL. Kind of a pain, but at least I’ve got some good visualizations on my XP MCE box nowlooks great on that big HD screen in my living room ?. @Keith: Awesome!
Thanks for tinkering with stuff. With vista, you’ll have to launch a cmd shell with elevated privileges to be able to unregister dlls. It’s a hassle, but that’s a good thing. @Michael: It’s Cowley, btw ^^. It depends who you ask: I think the business model for pretty computers is less lucrative than functional ones.
Right now the only market segment that thinks differently is designers and people in publishing. If the rest of the market felt the same way, the organization would adapt to be more designer-directed, and we’d focus less on cramming expandability and functionality into every layer and more on a focussed experience.
I wish it be more romantic and idealistic than this, but 3 years in the Windows and Office divisions have shown me that we just make what sells. ? Antitrust suits are just business. I honestly think that’s the reason. It could be something simpler, probably integrating it would be a very diluted brand experience, as well as harder than building the app around the device and the store.shrug. I’ve been told I think too much about these things.
Finally: You’re welcome! I’m glad people are liking this.
I should really spend less time writing responses on here and more time on version 2. FYI – I had one small hiccup while unregistering the dll.
Due to Vista’s tightened security, regsvr32 would not work until I elevated the priveleges of the command prompt. See the following helpful link on how this can be accomplished. After doing this step, I was able to unregister the dll and everything works perfectly once again.
Thanks again to those of you who built these cool visualizations, and to those of you who helped debug them with Vista MCE. Next chore – CallerID for Vista MCE. I installed this pack and love it. Only problem is I installed it on my xp machine and the album art cubes will only play as long as the album contains no album art (no jpeg in the file) if it does then it tells me windows media encountered a problem and needs to close.
The report it creates contains error code 0xc0000005. My PC is completly up to date and I reinstalled windows from scratch to find out if it was a software problem I had and couldnt find. If there is no album art then the cubes function perfectly!
I installed this on vista and it worked beautifully. Im running and athlon xp 2800, 1Gig ram, Asus A7v600 MB and graphics card is an Nvidia GeForce FX 5200. All software is 100% up to date. Latest drivers, bios etc are all installed and the card is shader 2 compatiable with direct x 9.0c installed. Could anyone please help?
Its driving me crazy, seems a shame for such a cool visualization pack. Thanks for any help anyone can give. Yeah so anyone resolved the fact they do not work in media center???? Also i cannot switch the alblum art in the 3d alblum art visualization. Regardless of what i play in WMP i get the same alblum art” johnny cash walk the line” A have the same problem with the bubbles visualiziation.
The bubble with the alblum art in it is always johnny cash.??? Anyone have a work around this. I even deleted the johnny cash alblum all together and it still is the only alblum art that will display. Kinda sucks. Badbob: sadly when we were making these things we didn’t have access to an MCE box, so they were never tested on it.
They also have a hardware requirement – you need a passable nvidia or ati video card, the intel GMA cards won’t work. With no budget and no resources we were just relying on what hardware we had. I believe there are some workarounds on the wmplugins.com comments page for this viz ( ), you’ll have to delete this registry key: HKEYLOCALMACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft MediaPlayer Objects Effects AlbumArt3D This may get you working. Cool thanks Tim.
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I got the alblum art to work on most of my songs. I was fiddling with these visualizations all night. For a open source Visualization and zero budget you guys did a outstanding job on these. Thanks for the speedy reply to. = I think i figured it out.
To bad about Windows media center. I guess deep down i was just trying to have some kind of actual reason for using WMC for my music. The bottom line is i don’t really use it for much anyway.
I just like the layout a bit more them WMP. Anyway thanks guys. Yeah so anyone resolved the fact they do not work in media center???? Also i cannot switch the alblum art in the 3d alblum art visualization. Regardless of what i play in WMP i get the same alblum art” johnny cash walk the line” A have the same problem with the bubbles visualiziation. The bubble with the alblum art in it is always johnny cash.??? Anyone have a work around this.
I even deleted the johnny cash alblum all together and it still is the only alblum art that will display. Kinda sucks. Scroll up about 18 posts to the latest one from Tim Cowley. He gives a fix that should help make them work in media center. As far as the album art goes, if I remember correctly we just look into the directory where the music is for a file names Folder.jpg. I’m not sure what magic makes these show up though. They don’t seem to exist when I just look in the folders but when I view the folders with my thumbnail graphics veiwer they’re all there.
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RECOMMENDED: A Visualization is nothing but a plug-in for Windows Media Player that displays splashes of colour and geometric shapes that change with the beat of the audio that is playing. In simple words, Visualization is a graphical display that changes in response to the audio signal. Windows Media Player in Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10 ships with a bunch of good visualizations. But if you’re bored with default visualizations and looking for beautiful visualization, here is one worth checking out. Yule Log is a cool visualization of a warm fireplace for your in (x86 and x64) and above versions including the latest Windows 10. If you are new to visualizations, here is how to enable the visualization in Windows Media Player. Step 2: Kick start the installation by double-clicking on the.msi file and simply click the Next button to complete the installation.
Step 3: Now you need to enable the visualization in Windows Media Player. Run the Windows Media Player. Step 4: Right-click on the player and go to Visualizations Yule Log and then select Yule Log to enable the visualization. Step 5: Done! Play an audio file to see the beauty of Yule Log visualization. Let us know if you are aware of any other beautiful visualization.
Ever wondered what's behind a visualization? This is your opportunity to learn something new because there are only a couple of Windows Media Player Visualizations that deliver source code.
You'll learn to build a new visualization with Visual C 2005 Express (you won't even require a Standard Edition)! Winter is here. Snow is here.
We'll render that depend on the waveform of the playing song with the Windows Graphics Device Interface. This article will also change the way you ever looked at a visualization. Paul-Valentin Borza - Difficulty: Intermediate Cost: Free Time required: 1-3 hours Software:, Hardware: None Download Source: How do we build a visualization? 287 /.
288 PVOID stdcall AllocStdCallThunk(VOID); 289 VOID stdcall FreeStdCallThunk(PVOID); 290 291 #define AllocStdCallThunk AllocStdCallThunk 292 #define FreeStdCallThunk(p) FreeStdCallThunk(p) 293 294 #pragma comment(lib, 'atlthunk.lib') 295./ 296 297 #define AllocStdCallThunk HeapAlloc(GetProcessHeap, 0, sizeof(stdcallthunk)) 298 #define FreeStdCallThunk(p) HeapFree(GetProcessHeap, 0, p) You should now be able to compile a visualization. Compile your visualization and launch Windows Media Player.
Play a song; you can try My Fair Lady by David Byrne over (this is the melody from the video preview);. Click on ' Now Playing';.
Right-click inside Windows Media Player and click ' Coding4Fun Winter Visualization' ' Coding4Fun Winter Visualization Bars' or ' Coding4Fun Winter Visualization Wave';. Please take a good look at the generated visualization.
Do you see the flicker (the flashing effect that you wouldn't want to see)? Don't worry, we'll make the visualization flicker-free in a few minutes. How do we debug a visualization? We know how to build and try a visualization; however, how do we debug one?
Simple - we attach to the ' wmplayer.exe' process. Click on ' Project' ' Properties';. Expand ' Configuration Properties' ' Debugging';. In ' Command' enter ' C: Program Files Windows Media Player wmplayer.exe';. Change ' Attach' from ' No' to ' Yes';. Click ' OK';. Open ' MyWinterVisualization.cpp' and locate ' CMyWinterVisualization::Render';.
Add a breakpoint at line ' 60' in ' MyWinterVisualization.cpp';. Build Solution and launch Windows Media Player;. Start Debugging and select your visualization in Windows Media Player; the visualization should break in Visual Studio. The Winter Visualization From now on, we'll take a look at the source code for the Winter Visualization.
A visualization can have one or more presets ( Bars and Wave for example). I've decided to go with two presents for the Winter Visualization and named them: Snow Flakes (draws blue snowflakes) and Snow Flames (draws red snowflakes). Configuration Open ' WinterVisualization.h' and check the configuration values. 18 #define EQANGLE -1.2f // - PI / 3 19 #define SNOWMINSIZE 23 // in pixels 20 #define SNOWMAXSIZE 337 // in pixels 21 #define SNOWSTEPSIZE 4 // in pixels 22 #define SNOWCOUNT 13 // number of snowflakes 23 #define SNOWFLAKECOLORCOUNT 5 // number of blue colors 24 #define SNOWFLAMECOLORCOUNT 5 // number of red colors 25 #define SNOWALPHA 237 // alpha value 26 #define KOCHIT 5 // number of iterations for Koch Don't modify EQANGLE as it's needed to make equilateral triangles for the Koch Snowflake Fractal. If you change SNOWFLAKECOLORCOUNT or SNOWFLAMECOLORCOUNT, modify the appropriate lines in CWinterVisualization::FinalConstruct. The visualization involves a lot of computations and changing any configuration value could potentially slow it down.
However, you're more than welcome to try anything. For example, increasing KOCHIT to 6 will make the visualization run slower, but the snowflakes will have a more defined border.
Try playing with SNOWALPHA (value should be between 0 and 255). Initialization Open ' WinterVisualization.cpp'. Thank you Paul-Valentin, A few weeks ago my development machine with Visual Studio.NET, Media Player 10 and Media Player 10 SDK died.
This was replaced with a new machine with Visual Studion 2005 and Media Player 11. I've been trying for weeks to figure out how to get the Project wizard in the 2008 Windows SDK to work with Visual Studio 2005.
The Microsoft documentation doesn't give a clue how to do this. Your explaination gave me all the info I needed to get it to work.
As an added plus, you described exactly what I've needed to get off-screen buffering to work. Many Thanks!!
Well im having trouble, but not with the installation and the other things. Anyway when i finished writing the code for the Initialization part of the tutorial and i went 2 build the code i get the undeclared errors so then i go and add the #include 'WinterVisualization.h' all the errors go away but then i get another error saying that it can't open the include file. So im wondering what i need 2 do that will hep me get past the problem. So does anyone know how i can declare all the undeclared units or what ever you want to call them?
Or can some one give me a link to a working code of this visualization, or even a screen shot or even email me the code. I built this visualization and then ran WMP 11. It appeared in the visualization menu, and I selected it. However, the visualization client area is not repainted after selecting it, so the menu is not removed until I start playing some music and the first call to Render occurs. I noticed the same thing happens if I open anything else that covers the visualization client area, such as the About Box. I created a default visualization using the Wizard in the SDK and that works as expected. I compared the code of the two projects and there's nothing obviously missing from the Winter Visualization, so why is it not refreshing the client area correctly?
Hi Phil, I haven't been playing with Windows Media Player visualizations since 2007, so my advices might not be as accurate as you'd expect. However, the rendering has to occur once the song starts playing (and it does from what you're saying). In a visualization, you have to take care of all the drawing that occurs in the specified rectangle, or the surface; that includes, taking care when user is resizing the window, right-clicks the surface and the menu appears etc. Usually, when you right-click, and event will be fired up telling you the invalidated region that needs repainting (the menu that you're talking about). First, try to see if you have the same behavior on a different machine. If you do, investigate the following:. has the visualization been created before playing a song (is the constructor being called, and the rendering performed);.
has some event changed (it's been three years since I've published the article - are you using Windows 7, a different SDK version perhaps);. are the events that I was using now deprecated and no longer being called properly.
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Try to attach to the WMP event and debug it to see what happens; use breakpoints in some key functions and see whether those functions are called after you right-click in the drawing area. If everything fails, try to reproduce the same behavior using a computer that runs Windows Vista, and be sure you use Visual Studio 2005 together with all additional dependencies. Thanks, Paul. Hi Alan, You'll have to change the following: 1. Open WinterVisualization.rc with the visual editor (if you open the source file, you'll also have to modify resource.h by hand) and add IDSNEWPRESET 'My New Preset Name'; 3. WinterVisualization.h:31 (duplicate the enum value and change it to something like NEWPRESET); 4. WinterVisualization.cpp:515-517 (duplicate those lines and make the necessary changes in the switch/case); 5.
Search for 'PRESETFLAME' and whenever you find it in WinterVisualization.cpp duplicate those line and make whatever change you wish (like making the snowflakes green). I believe that's enough to add another option under the winter menu item. If you have additional questions, please leave a comment and we'll get back to you. Thanks, Paul.
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