System Animator 5.0 (Beta 3) - Wallpaper mask

Introducing the upcoming 5.0 version of System Animator (SA), which makes use of IE9 (HTA), Firefox 4 (XUL) and various other technologies to create NEW possibilities for SA, such as running SA as a standalone application, combining several animations into one, making use of the hot new HTML5 Canvas/SVG technology, and MORE !

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"System Animator" Homepage
http://www.animetheme.com/sidebar/

Full play list (System Animator 5.0 Beta - PREVIEW):
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=5BC1F600102B1B5A

Full play list (System Animator - Introduction):
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=99F0C83604564C19

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System Animator 5.0 is now open for beta testing!

http://www.animetheme.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=8&topic=251

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Music and video:
- アイドルマスター　てってってー
- DXY! (TaQ) (Dance Dance Revolution)
- Touhou: Flandre Scarlet's theme "U.N Owen Was Her?"
- PARANOiA MAX (DIRTY MIX) (190) (Dance Dance Revolution)
- 【アイドルマスター】春香・雪歩・伊織でDream Fighter【MMD】 ( http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm10527203 )

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Windows 7
• Vista
• Sidebar
• gadget
• animated
• desktop
• mascot
• toy
• Silverlight
• IE9
• HTML5
• Canvas
• SVG
• Firefox 4
• Visualization
• Anime
• Vocaloid

[TaTaTheMusical]

I already downloaded the beta from your site and set the pic as my wall, but I can't mask, HELP DX~~~

[AnimeThemeSidebar]

@TaTaTheMusical Did you use the sample Haruhi masked wallpaper downloaded from the page?

[Grimchii]

The options under: Advanced/ HTA/XUL for the System Animator are all grey'd out, unclickable. o_o? help D:?

[AnimeThemeSidebar]

@Grimchii As the options tab name implies, these options apply to System Animator running in HTA/XUL mode only. In fact, many of the new features of System Animator 5.0 are available only in HTA/XUL mode.

[Cynherr]

How do you mask wallpaper?

[AnimeThemeSidebar]

@Cynherr A wallpaper mask is a separate PNG image file of the same resolution as the wallpaper, using the same filename as the wallpaper plus the "_mask" part at the end and sitting inside the same folder as the wallpaper, which uses its alpha channel data (opacity) to define the opacity mask for any System Animator animations displayed over the wallpaper.

Check out the wallpaper mask demo download on System Animator 5.0 Beta download page.

[mvpmickey1]

@AnimeThemeSidebar ~,..,~ Im starting to get dizzy. Now Im confused LOL

[XShyartinX]

._. i want your desktop wallpaper xDDDD

your vids are still great(y)

[belson0425]

So in the end, I have to do the masking thru GIMP or PS manually. Ouch!

[TaTaTheMusical]

@AnimeThemeSidebar Well, Actually I just found a thread about the same problem in you site and found a solution, I have to rename and stuff.... XD

Okay, then, thanks :D