FireStorm V1.5 (UPDATED AGAIN)

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Submitted on: 4/28/2001 5:28:59 PM
By: Michael Pote
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Compatibility:VB 4.0 (32-bit), VB 5.0, VB 6.0

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Firestorm is back with some great new features! Apart from the usual eye-popping visuals, Firestorm 1.3 has the following new features: A new GUI and easier palette access, 2 new palettes, Animation saving and Bit-mapped origin (See screen shot). Download It NOW!!! UPDATE!!!: New in 1.4: Bitmap origins can now be PAINTED on with the mouse!!! UPDATE AGAIN: new in v1.5 Slightly improved visuals, Compile optimizations for 70 FPS Code!! NEW palette format (40 times smaller than previously), NEW!!! Fullscreen mode! DOWNLOAD IT NOW!! NOTE: If you would like to make your own palettes, simply download the <a href="http://www.planetsourcecode.com/xq/ASP/txtCodeId.22814/lngWId.1/qx/vb/scripts/ShowCode.htm">Firestorm Palette Generator</a> (It has instructions on how to use it in the comments)

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4/28/2001 5:39:09 PM:Michael Pote

Feel free to express yourself, and vote!

4/28/2001 8:47:13 PM:Azoth

Great project.. Lots of Fun. How did 
you create the BMP files? What program 
did you use. Photoshop is a complete 
pain when it comes to palettes. 
Thanks for sharing.
Howard

4/29/2001 12:18:03 AM:keny

Great !
but how to expand it to make 
screen saver ?
Great !

4/29/2001 3:44:52 AM:Robert Rayment

Full of interesting and creative 
features - don't be so modest there's 
lots to learn from your prog - 5/5

4/29/2001 4:35:55 AM:Michael Pote

I used Paint Shop Pro 7 for the 
palettes, Its quite easy: Make a 
picture in 24 bit color 200 pixels by 
200 pixels then paint a gradient over 
the image and then convert it to an 8 
bit image. Paint shop pro should handle 
the conversion nicely and give you a 
palette. Save the bitmap in the 
firestorm palettes directory and you're 
done.
As for the screensaver, Well 
your going to have to change the size 
of the image to 320 by 200, This 
involves lots of For Next loop changing 
and resizing of the B() array. Then you 
could fit the 320x200 firestorm window 
in the top left hand corner of the 
screen and change the screen resolution 
to 320x200. I havn't tried this but I 
think it might be possible...

4/29/2001 6:48:00 AM:Night Wolf

I have a little idea that may be very 
cool but will involve lots of work i 
guess. How about making a OCX control 
that you just place on a form, add an 
image and then use it....?

4/29/2001 7:41:30 AM:Michael Pote

I'll Consider it thanks...

4/30/2001 7:11:56 AM:Morpheus

I strongly suggest you should update 
just the file here instead of creating 
new postings again and again...
1) 
It cost space on PCS and is not very 
user-friendly
2) You "lost" 4 
Votings. 7 for Version 1.1. you 
got...and 4 for Version 1.4.
Don't 
know whether votes from same people, 
but with 11 you would be on Place 5 on 
the Toplist... :-)
So just update 
here and maybe post a new entry that 
new verision is out there.
Good job 
anyway.

4/30/2001 11:23:51 AM:Michael Pote

Will do...

4/30/2001 12:35:47 PM:Michael Pote

Version 1.5 Also includes a full help 
file...

5/2/2001 2:51:53 AM:Morpheus101@web.de

Great ! Voted now 5 Points...see you 
updated the posting. Hope it helps...

5/13/2001 10:54:00 AM:Tuomo

This program is great! 5/5

6/1/2001 2:22:51 PM:Andy Sutherland

Awesome....I feel the heat coming from 
the monitor!!  I am going to take the 
BMPs and put them in Ulead Video editor 
and make a avi file.....

7/3/2001 3:47:12 AM:BlackSun

Very good work !!

7/15/2001 3:10:50 PM:Cell18189

Fery good result, but the code, man, I 
ca barley read it, sv, svv, svv2, s1, 
s5, b, p  ??

7/18/2001 10:36:11 AM:eTurtle

Excellent program, pity about the 
variable naming - makes things a little 
more difficult to understand.
5 
stars all the way...

3/5/2002 5:56:56 AM:Jacob

WOW!!
Fantastic code!
5 Globes ;)

6/6/2002 6:12:56 PM:Peter Hebels

FIRE FIRE, my monitor is burning thanks 
to YOU!!. I give ya 5 globez because 
it's still working! ;)

11/29/2002 8:45:04 PM:Malav Dhalgara

This code is awesome.  Great work! Good 
Job...:)

1/23/2003 8:16:40 PM:

Good prog but the DIH bottoms out befor 
the from has enough time to react

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