Grass - Animated Icon
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Grass - Animated Icon
Submitted April 2, 2009 by zigboom
5 comments, 1816 downloads 2 votes |
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Bring nature's beauty to your dock! This animated icon is a small meadow of grass that blows in the wind peacefully. 3 Icons available: center,left and right - so you can tile the icons as much as you like to and cover parts of your dock with grass.
You'll need this docklet so you can use animated icons: http://www.wincustomize.com/skins.aspx?skinid=2074&libid=29&p=3
To setup the docklet so the grass moves constantly you'll have to rightclick/ configure shortcut and cancell the "Only animate on mouseover" and "Jump back to first frame..."
Then set the delay (50ms-100ms is fine) and the path, just one tip: it's a good idea to set different timings so the gras doesn't move at the same speed exactly. Start the animation by righclick/ toggle animation.
Hope you'll enjoy the peacefull green grass. Comments are welcome, enjoY!
* Check out my profile for more: http://rocketdock.com/user/9712 *
Download File! - More by zigboom
You'll need this docklet so you can use animated icons: http://www.wincustomize.com/skins.aspx?skinid=2074&libid=29&p=3
To setup the docklet so the grass moves constantly you'll have to rightclick/ configure shortcut and cancell the "Only animate on mouseover" and "Jump back to first frame..."
Then set the delay (50ms-100ms is fine) and the path, just one tip: it's a good idea to set different timings so the gras doesn't move at the same speed exactly. Start the animation by righclick/ toggle animation.
Hope you'll enjoy the peacefull green grass. Comments are welcome, enjoY!
* Check out my profile for more: http://rocketdock.com/user/9712 *
Download File! - More by zigboom
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Hi my friend, i've been busy with a new project, a skin for Firefox ... Trying to create a version of my Dark Lava Windowblinds skin that will work natively in firefox. It's a very big project so i don't know when i'll have time for other things ... Anyway, hope it'll be worth waiting for ... ;)
So, nothing new?
I'm coming back everyday to c what u came up with.
What r u working on?
Here's a preview -> http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/732/grass176.gif
Thanx for the feedback spippy. Sure it takes some cpu, but thats normal for animated icons.. There are some ways to minimize it, first ofcourse make sure your dock autohides and reapear on mouse hover. check the icons quality and size( smaller icons takes less cpu) . Anyway, my opinion is it's a small price to pay for some eye candy, when the dock is off the screen it takes zero cpu so i don't mind if it takes some when it's on use. Anyway happy you like it and hope it can be usefull or at least entertaining :)
It is so cool, I love it but unfortunately it takes a lot of my CPU usage. It jump from 3% to 7% usage just for a single icon. It's a shame because it looks good.
I've already tried to have all my icons being animated on my dock... well the CPU was having a hard time and the fan was going crazy.
One icon is OK, more it's not feasible.
Nevertheless you icon is amazing as usual and different of what we are used from you, I enjoyed it a lot.
Good job.