Animated wallpaper for XP ,using DesktopX

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Tiggz the innovator, has struck again. He used DX to assemble an animated wallpaper.(It's sweet) I thought it deserved a little time in the limelight.

Top notch thinking from a top notch skinner. I hope more XP folks follow this lead.
Take a look here.
Tiggz Animated Wallpaper

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
This is very nice! I like it. So....how did you make it move???? I make a lot of wallpapers and i would love to make some that move. :CONGRAT: 
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The spinning cog consists of a 10 frame image, each frame has the cog rotated by a small increment - it is applied to a dx object and configured on the animation tab of that object.

The flashing neon/fuse type thingies are randomly shown using some dxscript - they are applied to various states of an object, and those states are called by the script.

I have commented the script to try and explain what is going on.

If you load the theme and then navigate to your current theme folder (enter dx builder mode, open the dx configuration dialog, go to the 'desktop' tab and click the 'open desktop data folder' button) you can see the images used.

If you are more familair with graphics than script then creating multi-frame images is the easiest way to make some animations :)
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hmmmm.... I was making animated wallpapers with DX in 2002........ hehehe.

HG, you are SO behind the times.

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That IS a cool wall though Tiggz....... very nice! B[]
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hmmmm.... I was making animated wallpapers with DX in 2002
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I think the first one I saw was the Castle by Alex G back in 2001.  :)
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
yeh yeh.. my senility kicked in..but still, the sentiment was there ;)
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
the Castle
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still use that one once in a while
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Oh I am a lot better with graffics than script. Thank you for the instructions I will try doing this. I am still pretty new at some of this.
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
kelltech: Yes, you will need to have DesktopX installed to use that animated wallpaper, because it's basically a DesktopX THEME.

Have Fun!! B[]
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I made one a while ago, it even won a contest. :D Although I made it in different way, using objects to animate objects.
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I made one a while ago, it even won a contest.
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Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Awesome! Glad there's more of these out there for us XP users. Did a couple myself.

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Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
cool sViz.. the aditions are sweet.. is nice having animated XP wallpapers :)
Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I made one a while ago, it even won a contest.
link?
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Sure

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Sure

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Ohhh . . I remember that.  Never thought of it as an animated wallpaper.  Dynamic even.  :)
Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Thanks. :) The whole concept of mine for this was to be a "working" and animated wallpaper. It was even before dreamscape and stuff like that.
Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Thank You to both XX and sVis now I to have animated wallpaper. Great job both of you!!! :)