Flux: an unity version of a classic screensaver

I made an Unity version of a beautiful screen saver Flux from Really Slick Screensavers (http://www.reallyslick.com).

It is not game. It will show you a lot of colorful particles animated by csharp scripts.

Known Issues:
1)The "float cameraAngle" should not be a local variable of FluxApp::Update(). It should be a private member variable of class FluxApp, or the particles cannot be rotated properly.
2)In FluxApp::Start(), if we give the random number generator a new kind of seed, e.g.
System.DateTime t = System.DateTime.Now;
UnityEngine.Random.seed = t.Month + t.Day + t.Minute + t.Second;
Maybe the scene will be more interesting.

 

Pretty neat, you can never have too many colorful dots!

 

colours....

Nah, just joking. Nice one dude!

 

I think the Mac version of this uses point sprites in OpenGL, which is why it's probably faster and with more dots? But yours looks pretty good too Are you turning it into a real screensaver?

 

It is said that Unity Pro can access the low level rendering commands which may let us draw points instead of alpah textured quad-mesh. But I havn't tried. It's the logics govern the particles movement that realy interest me. After porting the original c++ code to Unity, I am clearer about the logics and satisfied with the Unity's rendering and scripting performance.

Thanx for your comments.

 

Yah it looks pretty cool, and interesting. I don't think Unity has point sprites but yours seems pretty smooth anyway.

 

On OSX I combined this with the Wiki screensaver framework for Mac, and it works pretty well

 

NICE

 

I have it as my current screensaver, actually.

One thing I notice about the wiki screensaver though is that because it uses the webplayer, it is capped at 25fps, and within a screensaver you can't click the mouse to get focus and increased speed without stopping the saver. Oh well, but it looks good.

I'm working on a screensaver framework at the moment for Windows and Mac, which is why this caught my eye.