Farb-Rausch Releases PC Demo Creation Software

RaD Man [ACiD] writes "Farb-Rausch, one of the best-known groups at the forefront of the PC demoscene, has just released Werkkzeug, a fully featured, freely downloadable PC demo creation tool used to make the visually stunning and award-winning demo The Popular Demo. Not only have they freely published the creation tools, but they've also released the original datafiles for The Popular Demo as well." We also recently featured a 96kb FPS demo from the same authors.

Comments

Wrong one...

[Dwedit]

What's this about "The Popular Demo" being 64k? It's actually 8,854,016 bytes long.

mirrors

[crache]

I smell a slashdotting, here are their listed mirrors: Werkkzeug ftp://ftp.scene.org/pub/resources/demomaker/thepro dukkt/pno0002_werkkzeug1_v1200.zip&id=242925 ftp://ftp.pl.scene.org/pub/demos/resources/demomak er/theprodukkt/pno0002_werkkzeug1_v1200.zip&id=242 925 http://http.pl.scene.org/pub/demos/resources/demom aker/theprodukkt/pno0002_werkkzeug1_v1200.zip&id=2 42925 Datafile ftp://ftp.scene.org/pub/resources/demomaker/thepro dukkt/pno0003_the.popular.demo_datafile.zip&id=242 926 ftp://ftp.pl.scene.org/pub/demos/resources/demomak er/theprodukkt/pno0003_the.popular.demo_datafile.z ip&id=242926 http://http.pl.scene.org/pub/demos/resources/demom aker/theprodukkt/pno0003_the.popular.demo_datafile .zip&id=242926

Re:mirrors

[Anonymous Coward]

Goodness; does no one here know HTML? Here are the four "the.popular.demo" mirror sites, as links:

• ftp.scene.org
• ftp.nl.scene.org
• ftp.pl.scene.org
• http.pl.scene.org

And, by the way, "the.popular.demo" is 8.2MB, not 64KB as stated in the article. (Rather a difference, so expect a long download time.)

Re:Coooooool

[Anonymous Coward]

There's a bunch of Unix demos here. Some with source.

64KB INTRO!

[rexguo]

Is "Poem for a horse", not "The Popular Demo". This 64K intro was shown at SIGGRAPH'03.

Popular demo not a 64kb demo

[octal666]

The popular demo is not a 64kb demo, farb-rausch are good, but the popular demo is a 8Mb demo, as it can be seen if you just follow the link to pouet.net.

DirectX 9

[RobertKozak]

Make sure you have DirectX 9. I usually dont keep up with this so I didnt know.

3d engine, texture+music, and even a speech synth!

[PommeFritz]

I was stunned when I downloaded Farb-rausch's "Candytron" 64K demo.

It contains a 3d engine, procedural texture creation, realtime music synthesizer AND also a speech synthesizer! The music in some of their demos is actually accompanied by a (robotic) singer! You can even make out the words...

Farb-rausch rule, IMHO :-)

for more info on demos and the demoscene:

[spiny]

a few links:

orange juice (news site): http://www.ojuice.net">

pouet (demo archive with discussion): http://www.pouet.net

scene.org (pretty much all demos since 1993 ...) : http://www.scene.org

those three have plenty of links to other sites too. nearly all platforms still have strong demo scenes active, from the Oric (no really!) through to the Atari Falcon (and ST/e)

you don't have to be a programmer to take part either, if you can pixel or weild a graphics tablet, knock up a catch chip choon or an entire mp3 album you'll fit right in.

Re:Demopaja was still the first

[kb]

No, it's not. Demopaja is "only" (not to say anything against it, it's one of the coolest tools even for producing videos ;) a timeline editor for external plugin DLLs, so to say a tool that demosceners can use to concentrate on coding their own effects while leaving the dirty direction work to the artists. .werkkzeug on the other hand is a complete, closed content development system which does not support linking your own code (because we never needed that, Chaos always implemented what the others wanted) but includes everything from texture generation, mesh generation/editing, timeline editing, post-processing effects and a few other things.

So you can't even compare both tools, as they've got radically different uses within the same context.

Oh, and in fact the only thing that we claim that hasn't done before is the completely nondestructive modular texture and model editing. We know we haven't invented texture generation itself or demomakers, don't worry. Damn, I used those tools back on the C64 when I was 14, so... ;)

kb / farbrausch

Re:Heaven 7: another amazing 64KB demo

[gnu-generation-one]

"In 2002 a group named exceed released a true 64KB demo (ok, it's 65536 bytes, close enough)"

That is 64KB -- octets 0 to 65535 inclusive

Re:OS X Demo Scene?

[kb]

Our (Farbrausch) demos are all Windows+DirectX, but there are a few other ones for the Mac. Just have a look at

http://mac.scene.org/

.. and you'll find some demos. MacOS isn't too well liked in the demoscene yet, tho this seems to change - we had a Mac Demo competition at this year's Breakpoint party with a stunning three entries (which is three more than at all other parties I've ever been to) :)

kb^fr