DeskScapes 3 Beta Update (.073)
Friday, September 25, 2009 by Island Dog | Discussion: Personal Computing
A new update for the DeskScapes 3 beta has been released today. DeskScapes is an application that lets you have animated wallpapers on your Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 (DS3 beta only). There are hundreds of animated wallpapers, also called .dreams, available for download on sites such as WinCustomize.com.
The current beta of DeskScapes 3 is available for download if you have an active Object Desktop subscription, and is available through Impulse.
The latest update includes:
- Dream effects – Apply effects to .dreams allows you to change the way they look with cool looking filters
- Hybrid Dream Support – A Hybrid Dream is a new type of .dream that mixes static and animated images, which use significantly less resources
- DreamMaker with Hybrid Support
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Reply #2 Friday, September 25, 2009 5:33 PM
Just a note that info about Hybrid .dreams can be found in the DeskScapes directory.
Reply #3 Friday, September 25, 2009 5:46 PM
The new interface and effects and textures are just superb. Mirrors WB7...so well!
Congrats to the devs and whole SD team...even the choice of charcoal gray was great! I'd love to see the same
gray style for Impulse. 
Where's that, I.D.? The Dreams Gallery? Sorry, but I don't know where to go about hunting for that directory.
Reply #4 Friday, September 25, 2009 5:56 PM
Found it...thanks
Reply #5 Friday, September 25, 2009 6:04 PM
Found it...thanks
Me too...in the interface...the Impulse hybrid right?
Why do I suddenly have a vision of a red car with it's wheels spinning? 
Reply #6 Friday, September 25, 2009 6:32 PM
ID's referring to the "HybridDreamFormat.pdf" file that's found in the Program files\stardock\object desktop\dreamscapes directory.
ID...When uploading hybrid dreams, should they include a disclaimer stating that it's only compatible with the latest beta version of DeskScapes, in the description?
Reply #7 Friday, September 25, 2009 6:42 PM
Reply #8 Friday, September 25, 2009 7:29 PM
Hybrid dream question... are animation file formats other than .nwa supported?
Reply #9 Friday, September 25, 2009 7:36 PM
ZubaZ needs to update DeskScapes on this tablet now
Reply #10 Friday, September 25, 2009 7:49 PM
It says .nwa, which is not a format I'm familiar with.
The hybrid dream notes say that they can be created with Skin Studio 6 but I can not find a reference to creating them in any tutorial or in the Wiki.
I'm also wondering if there's a way to convert an animation to that format.
Since I'm not too familiar with SKS6 it looks like I've got some learnin' to do. 
Reply #11 Friday, September 25, 2009 8:40 PM
You can build a NWA file from a vertically stacked PNG animation using SkinStudio - see the tools menu. In the next SKS update it will handle multiple png files with numbers in the filename (myimage0001.png etc)
If anyone is interested in making new effects, look in the effects folder in the deskscapes program files folder. There is a document and sample c++ project provided.
Reply #12 Friday, September 25, 2009 10:13 PM
I was tying it out this morning. It is awesome. I had made a fractal dream that I use on my desktop sometimes, but now I can add colors and other effects to it. This opens up a whole new world to people like me. Bravo Stardock/WinCustomize 
Reply #13 Sunday, October 4, 2009 12:03 PM
Great! Btw, still would really really like to see a "change every 30 mins" feature added to deskscapes! Pretty please! The only other way to do this (vistadreams) stopped working for win7 and the developer stopped updating it. urgh! Love dreams...just get bored with one all the time...and going in every 30 mins to change it manually...just seems so 1990s 
Btw, Carguy great first hybrid dream! And yes, it took forever to load! Hopefully they optimize it better...
Reply #14 Sunday, October 4, 2009 4:43 PM
The slow load time on that one hybrid dream was due to a rendering issue which has been resolved for the next update.
Reply #15 Sunday, October 4, 2009 5:42 PM
Great news. 
Reply #16 Sunday, October 4, 2009 5:45 PM
There is also a new NWA encoder which should reduce the size of that particular dream too.
Reply #17 Wednesday, October 21, 2009 6:29 AM
hii everybody where can i download this beta version!!!!!!!
please reply need it okkkkkkkk
Reply #18 Wednesday, October 21, 2009 6:40 AM
The beta version can be downloaded by ObjectDesktop subscribers or Deskscapes 2 purchasers. If you qualify you can use Impulse and enable show prereleases in the orb menu.
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Reply #1 Friday, September 25, 2009 5:27 PM
Awesome...been waiting for this. Wanna guess what I'll be doing this weekend?