I'm gonna put something like this immediately on my desktop. This thread is really rocking. But as Edhel said, its our only chance to draw triangles and polygons. Bug or not this sounds a little promising to me.
BTW, you can have a skewed bar like this too, and infact its better than using an image on a bar. Thanks to transformation matrix.
jsmorley wrote:I suspect with ControlAngle=0, the value is in effect seen as 0% all the time, as the measure value isn't used at all in that case.
Can't say I have extensively played with this though.
Testing Edhel's example, that isn't what's going on behind the scenes. This bug absolutely depends on measure values 0 and below (including negative numbers). For values 1 and above, you get normal behavior. For some really interesting results, try values between 0 and 1 (hint: polygons with rounded corners!).
This opens up some very interesting potential applications for advanced Rainmeter users. I'm hoping to see more demos similar to The Cube.
What is of particular concern is, what are the chances of this bug getting fixed and/or official triangle/x-gon meters?
killall-q wrote:
Testing Edhel's example, that isn't what's going on behind the scenes. This bug absolutely depends on measure values 0 and below (including negative numbers). For values 1 and above, you get normal behavior. For some really interesting results, try values between 0 and 1 (hint: polygons with rounded corners!).
This opens up some very interesting potential applications for advanced Rainmeter users. I'm hoping to see more demos similar to The Cube.
What is of particular concern is, what are the chances of this bug getting fixed and/or official triangle/x-gon meters?
Can you post the code for generating the cube. I seem to have gotten nowhere after messing for about an hour.
The download link seems to not working.
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TweaknFreak wrote:Can you post the code for generating the cube. I seem to have gotten nowhere after messing for about an hour.
The download link seems to not working.
The cube is super ancient, I can't find a download anywhere any more. It showcased dynamic transformation matrixes, and just destroyed your CPU. Perhaps it would run better on the computers of today especially with Rainmeter having gotten significantly optimized since then. To date, it has been the only attempt to emulate 3D in Rainmeter.
killall-q wrote:The cube is super ancient, I can't find a download anywhere any more. It showcased dynamic transformation matrixes, and just destroyed your CPU. Perhaps it would run better on the computers of today especially with Rainmeter having gotten significantly optimized since then. To date, it has been the only attempt to emulate 3D in Rainmeter.
The only idea that I hit on during the last 2 days thinking of "Cube", was to generate each surface separately, then using Transformation matrix aligning each surface and finally joining the pieces adjusting the coordinates.
Woah! This seems pretty complex, not impossible so to speak. But lets see if I can pull of a pyramid or something. Mummies...................
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I'm a little late to the party. I always thought those settings were to do things like this:
In order to get the full circle instead of just the angled bar meter, you have to cheat and use a huge RotationAngle, so that even 1% values will give a full rotation:
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