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Summer 22 Update
I made many changes and improvements to sfäre after launch. Unfortunately feedback and sales were hard to come by. So I was struggling to find motivation to put more work into sfäre. I ended up just leaving for a while.…
Announcement2 changesUI/audio - sfäre
Auto-play Filtering & Camera
It's now possible to use your webcam with sfäre. Whatever your webcam is showing will be projected on the background. Combined with mirrors and filters this can lead to new, weird and interesting kaleidoscopic effects.…
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Wallpaper Madness
The idea was to allow sfäre to be used as an animated background on your windows desktop. I found a Unity Asset to do just this and I was confident to get it out in no time. The asset allowed me to create a second windo…
Announcement3 changesFixGameplay - sfäre
Audio Movement
Reduced movement speed in reaction to audio. It could get quite erratic. It can be set in the Audio-Tab via slider. I'm currently working on allowing sfäre to display as animated wallpaper but it's way more complicated…
Announcement2 changesUI/audio - sfäre
Quick Update
Fire mode added to Auto-Play. This does not work in either Play or Editor so far. Made some adjustments to Audio-Visualization, main reason for this update.
Announcement1 changeUI/audio - sfäre
Smoooth Visuals
The new tunnel effect was quite noisy, depending on what kind of image was being mapped to the walls. I've switched to mip-mapping and now the tunnel is a lot smoother. This new technique is also used on various other f…
Announcement2 changesGameplayServer - sfäre
Auto-Play Movement
Movement based on audio has increased. The dots speed up when the beat drops, as do other parameter changes. I think it's an improvement, but it might require further balancing. I've also tackled a fairly complicated is…
Announcement2 changesUI/audio - sfäre
Tunnels and Balls
I've added a few more filters to sfäre and improved the lighting analysis for auto-play (tries to prevent too bright and too dark images). Music by Rundfunk (friends of mine). Interestingly the video on YouTube got clai…
Announcement3 changesGameplayPerformance - sfäre
Filters & Visualizer
sfäre was never meant to be a music visualizer. But it is what most people see at first glance. So I've decided to go with the flow and improve sfäre's capacity as a visualizer. This lead me on a new voyage of discovery…
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Kaleidoscope Update
I'm enjoying adding new shaders, the results can be quite astonishing :) The plan is to animate these shaders in the future, so sfäre can be used as an interesting visualizer as well.
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Rotation Symmetry Update
More shader stuff. This time I've added rotational symmetry. It works with mirroring and all the other features as far as I can tell. I also fixed a bug in the editor, where entering a numeric value updated the slider,…
Announcement2 changesFixPerformance - sfäre
Bump Update
I have been experimenting with a few shaders/filters for sfäre. It's just not really easy to make anything interesting. But I came up with a pretty nice bump effect, that can add more depth/texture to the images.
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Twitch Update
As some of you might have noticed, it is possible to connect sfäre to your twitch channel. When enabled viewers can interact with sfäre. You can use this to take a nap or do the washing while sfäre entertains your viewe…
Announcement2 changesGameplay - sfäre
Color Sphere Fix
I had noticed the color changing spheres were reacting slowly a while back. I made a quick fix for this, thinking I only needed to speed them up. This worked on my machine, but I noticed while watching a stream that my…
Announcement1 changeFix - sfäre
Smooth Update
One thing has been bugging me since I created the editor. Switching back into the fun-mode (with the spheres) was not possible without losing some of the settings that were created in the editor. I had a hard think abou…
Announcement2 changesFixGameplay - sfäre
Logo/Images Positioning + Fixes
Logo/Images: - you can now select a row and reposition/scale/rotate the image with your mouse - idle images were showing on start up, fixed Fractal Saving: - some fractal images were looking wrong after loading. I notic…
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