i'd love to feature this as DD, but you should make sure the installer works properly (i get :\Program Files\foobar2000\Wina as install path). nice pack, though i'm not a big friend of interactive presets (isn't it possible to hide the controls in fullscreen?). my favourites are shooting star, avs blox (have some problems with it when i try loading the next or previous preset), the remix for ~framesofreality and the remix by ~unconed. funny (and impressive) intro!

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I'm not sure what to say about that installer problem, it seems to work for everyone else (on #avs at least) are you sure your registry keys aren't all borky?

Thx for the comment (The avs blox problem is a know bug (see the 2nd comment) with global variables manager)

this is the conversation occured when i dled this pack. the place of #avs that time is 15 mins earlier.
it's edited,got rid of useless sentences, no more wa.com and porn references included.

<frames> damn you pak the intro is.......oh fuck
<AK-9>
<frames> and the FPS is reasonable too...my jaw is slightly dropping
<AK-9> i only get about 21fps so i kind of expect it to suck for a lot of people
<frames> brb just have to eat sumthin
(...)
<framey> so pak lets move on to preset 2
<framey> nebula is great, but for some reason winamp died after i switched to it, but it's still pretty and soothing
<AK-9> it sucks but yea whatever
<framey> time probe is nicely executed, but it's a bit overused and imo you could've made the starfield a bit prettier
<AK-9> prettier?
<framey> yeah
<AK-9> its hard to pretty up a load of lines
<framey> just add some fade or sumthin, it's too static and you can make out where the "box" of starfield ends
<framey> fabric 3 is pure greatness tho, but it would be better with a white background
<AK-9> no avs trans \o/... i made it so long ago
<AK-9> ya i didnt want to have anything except a render tho
<framey> CWT is still slow and i dont like the colors :/
<framey> CWT 2 is way better
<framey> darkmatter is very funkey
<framey> elementary is good for what it is and i like it for that
<framey> pak ephemeral is just too good :')
<framey> beanies is pure fun
<framey> shooting star is a bit animeish, but it's still funkey
<framey> avs block is still avsome
<AK-9> you missed droplets
<AK-9> go back! I command you!
<framey> droplets is fine, but you know my opinion about it
<AK-9> oh, you've seen more of these than i thought
<framey> 4 i guess
<framey> jet wash is still slow and fuck-you-tech-freakish, which is good in your case
<framey> 45 remix is good,but it would be cool if the upper window would move or mutate, i'm sure you could've pull that off
<framey> bombs away is quite good
<framey> hmmm divisions is included?
<AK-9> my remix is
<framey> i guess i'll have to edit it for my remix pack then
<AK-9> :I
<framey> to make it a bit different
<framey> pandora collab is still a bit fishy to me
<UnConeD> you just don't appreciate the greatness of that preset
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(from a conversation that happened 2 days earlier :
<frames> dont really like the pandora remix, looks crappy with intense music
<AK-9> what mix? oh. jealous.
<frames> not really, just another marble crayony remix
<AK-9> yea you're jealous
<frames> yeayea
<frames> i couldnt give two shits about shading y'know
<frames> it may be technically great, but this trail idea is a bit overused. even i did a remix like that and atleast that wobbled
<AK-9> yea its a technical masterwork
<frames> the last FX list is not important
<AK-9> thats our omg leet 2D binomial lowpass whatchamacallit filter
<frames> heh. just blur. and a slight too much imo
<AK-9> actually the fps independance was a bit borked i just fixed it
<frames> the last convo is totally useless)
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<AK-9> clearly you dont realise just how god damn solid that pandora remix is
<UnConeD> yes
<UnConeD> it's so solid it's almost a whole new state of matter
<framey> the pandora remix is still a cliché
<framey>
<framey> it may be solid and ohmewgawdsobackfaceeculled or whatever it's still a nemo ripoff
<AK-9> you're a nemo rip off
<framey> a bit
<framey> wow this preset is AMAZING...oops it's my remix
<framey> time probe rmx is funkey, the starfield is better than the original
<framey> tugg's rmx is nice but the colors are a bit dodgy (but that's just my taste)
<framey> droplets remix is great, it's just very-very nice
<AK-9> its so eruptiony
<framey> ...and i guess that's all
<AK-9> yup
<AK-9> thx for the review
<AK-9> now paste it into a devart comment
<framey> k then
<framey> you already got a fav tho
<UnConeD> ehehe
<AK-9> kthx
<framey> you know pak....this wont be your usual comment
<AK-9> is it going to be a irc dump with each sentence prefixed with a time stamp and nick
<AK-9> interleaved with mine and coneds conversation
<framey>
<framey> damn you

"<UnConeD> oh and I hate you too for installing in avs\pak 9 AVS 5 instead of avs\pak-9\pak-9 avs 5
<AK-9> yea it deserves a place in root
<AK-9> its THAT GOOD"

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i got a vmware running a fresh winamp installation, same problem. are you using the InstallDirRegKey command? i'm very confused that it cuts the drive letter.

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Its a modified version of the winamp forums compilation 2 installer courtesy of Jheriko, I cant remember all the NSIS syntax so I'll just paste in the top of the nsis script:
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; The default installation directory code
Function .onInit

ReadRegStr $2 HKLM "Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Winamp" "UninstallString"

StrLen $1 $2
IntOp $1 $1 - 14
StrCpy $INSTDIR $2 $1 1

FunctionEnd

Name "PAK-9 AVS 5"
OutFile "PAK-9 AVS 5.exe"

DirText "Please select your Winamp Directory (e.g. C:\Program Files\Winamp)"

InstallDirRegKey HKLM Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Winamp" "UninstallString"

...

Oh it chopped out all the backslashes, but you can probably see where they were

Thats probably my fault. I used InstallDirRegKey in the WFC1 installer expecting it was working... which it obviously didnt. So I assumed it wrote the installer key instead and wrote my own crappy little registry string get-er. I left it in there so that if it was doing something it would still do it. If its writing to that key then at least its sticking the correct directory in there if it isnt there already...

remove the installdirregkey and it will probably work better...

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'Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers'

Awesome pack. +fav

The intro is really breaktaking... it really raises the bar for intros.

Most of the pack is fairly awesome but a few stand out as amazing presets to me. Namely Jet Wash, Droplets and Shooting Star. These three all have a really clearly defined style and mix low tech and hi tech effects to squeeze the most out of avs visually at more than reasonable framerates for the achieved effects.

Anyway, enough blab... dl this pack its awesome.

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'Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers'

Update the installer, might work now, I cant really test it because it already works here

w00t for a new standard of techyness. :/

This pack suffers massivly from the tech over attractiveness virus though.
If it's your only goal to search for the limits of AVS, no wonder you claim AVS dead; every program has its limits.
If AVS was created better, somebody would climb up to that limit too.

I'm not saying that technical progression is bad - of course not - It's just that even after all the effort you've put into it, I just don't think most of these presets are so attractive to the everyday winamp user who just likes to see pretty moving colours (AKA not-artist).

a for the effort, but not so much for the visual attractiveness.. Sorry but I liked 4SE better.

Nonetheless a great pack, my favourite presets:
Fabric3
Elementary
Beanies
AVSBlox
JetWash
AVSBlox
Divisions rmx
...Did I mention AVSBlox?

Well, I think I can stop with creating my own version of tetris in avs now

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