Re: [Mixxx-devel] Design A Cool Cover Flow

2014-03-12 Thread Max Linke
But not that good for mixxx. Maintaining a full 3d engine besides all the stuff that Qt already offers is not good for us. To be able to use 3d Rendering and displaying them is not as easy as it sounds. You have to make descisions about lighting sources and different shaders. You need to make

Re: [Mixxx-devel] Design A Cool Cover Flow

2014-03-11 Thread Trevor Hansen
I may be suggesting something out of this world but there is a program called Visikord (http://www.visikord.com/). As far as what Visikord does, in a nut shell, you can hook up an xbox camera to a computer, run their program and it produces the background images and then outlines the dancers bodie

Re: [Mixxx-devel] Design A Cool Cover Flow

2014-03-11 Thread udara de silva
Trevor that is an awesome idea. To be honest I hadn't think that far. What you are suggesting is very cool for DJying and would be useful in real life. We don't have to stick with actionscript here. We could easily use a 3D engine developed in C++ like CrystalSpace. But I have to admit that I haven

Re: [Mixxx-devel] Design A Cool Cover Flow

2014-03-11 Thread Trevor Hansen
If you don't mind me jumping in here. I'm new to programming and am getting my feet wet. I am a DJ and I think having the ability for the 3D engine would be cool. If there is the option of a video output (like VDJ has) and render the video out to display the 3D images, then you would have a good

Re: [Mixxx-devel] Design A Cool Cover Flow

2014-03-11 Thread Max Linke
Hi please use `group reply` so that other people (devs/mentors) can also see your answers On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 22:05:38 +0530 udara de silva <28ud...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the quick reply Max. I have created cover flow image galleries > in the past. So my initial thought was loading alb

Re: [Mixxx-devel] Design A Cool Cover Flow

2014-03-11 Thread Max Linke
Hi Udura > When going through the project ideas by MIXXX it all seems very good summer > projects. I would love to add something on cover flow project idea first. > >From my experience for cool animations best choice is ActionScript > (Flash/Air). I have worked with papervision3d , stage3d and oth

[Mixxx-devel] Design A Cool Cover Flow

2014-03-10 Thread udara de silva
Hello everyone, I'm udara piumal, a 2nd year Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering Undergraduate. I'm thinking of participating on GSOC 2014 and use my skills on a field I love :D I am good with Java,C++,C and ActionScript programming. I also have experience in QT programming. I have develo