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Re: Nightdrive

#161
post #80

> It's not a screensaver, because it's not the 90s. It may be 2022, but I would love a screensaver version of this.

It would definitely fit into xscreensaver's collection, yes.

Depending on your OS it should just be a matter of starting a webview with the code as the default page and running it full screen. Then a small loop looking for mouse/keyboard events so it knows when to quit.

Re: Nightdrive

#162

I'm amused that we share initials and a passion for this kind of project! Mine's https://rezmason.github.io/drivey . One key difference: this guy built his demo from scratch, whereas mine's a port of someone else's work. It's great to see another implementation, with its own techniques and features.

Was yours based on "Drivey"?

EDIT: never mind, it looks like it was, very cool.

Re: Nightdrive

#163

I'm amused that we share initials and a passion for this kind of project! Mine's https://rezmason.github.io/drivey . One key difference: this guy built his demo from scratch, whereas mine's a port of someone else's work. It's great to see another implementation, with its own techniques and features.

That's really cool, but I wonder why on my machine is maxes out all the cores on my CPU and still runs at something like 1 FPS on high If I turn it to Low it runs okay but looks.. not great. But I don't see anyone else having issues so, is it just me?

Sounds like a lack of hardware acceleration. My i7-1185g7 is sitting at 20% but my Intel Iris Xe GPU is maxed. Runs smooth though.

Re: Nightdrive

#164
post #88

This reminds me of the movie Drive (2011), in particular the first song on the soundtrack, Kavinsky - Nightcall https://youtu.be/MV_3Dpw-BRY

Very nice! I instantly recognized the tune but from a completely different event, namely https://youtu.be/wkF9w86XXKU That's the cover by band London Grammar and TIL about the original one. Didn't know about the movie which now is on my todo list, thanks.

I love this cover by Natalie McCool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtpAVTPJaJQ

Re: Nightdrive

#166

I'm amused that we share initials and a passion for this kind of project! Mine's https://rezmason.github.io/drivey . One key difference: this guy built his demo from scratch, whereas mine's a port of someone else's work. It's great to see another implementation, with its own techniques and features.

That's really cool, but I wonder why on my machine is maxes out all the cores on my CPU and still runs at something like 1 FPS on high If I turn it to Low it runs okay but looks.. not great. But I don't see anyone else having issues so, is it just me?

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Re: Nightdrive

#167
post #3

Very cool. Of course the music is retrowave.

Indeed, I very much enjoy the genre. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthwave

5 years ago, after deliberately looking for new music, I realized that synthwave was the music that I had spent my entire life searching for.

Re: Nightdrive

#168

I'm amused that we share initials and a passion for this kind of project! Mine's https://rezmason.github.io/drivey . One key difference: this guy built his demo from scratch, whereas mine's a port of someone else's work. It's great to see another implementation, with its own techniques and features.

interesting that this is running very slow (like 1 frame per second) on Chrome, but runs very smooth on Firefox. I'm on the latest version of both for Mac.

Re: Nightdrive

#170
Im not sure the cars and lights need to be anymore than floating orbs, its quite a nice minimalist aesthetic with just the lights. I'm not sure it needs to be a game either, maybe the ability to steer the car would be good but any more than that might seem forced (and I'm not even sure it needs that). The only real problem I see is that cars pass through you from behind (the only time the floating orbs effect becomes an issue), but even that seems minor for what it is.
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