Friday, 5 June 2009

Nimi Visuals X .1 01062009 - Bring 25+ MacOS effects to Windows

Description:

Windows effect and customization engine offering effect repositories, desktop scripting, support for using 3rd part customization software and offering over 25+ inbuilt amazing effects like:

-Desktop shadows-Turn windows transparent, click-through while desktop is selected. Can be selected from this mode by hovering mouse with left button pressed.

-Window fading on creation, destroy, minimize

-Contrast screen-Creates contrast between active and non-active windows

-Taskbar and start menu transparency - Turns Your taksbar and start menu transparent

-Taskbar and start menu blur-Turns You taskbar and start menu transparent with blurred background.

-Taskbar shadow-Makes taskbar drop shadow

-Transparency on window move and resize-While moving on resizing window it will become transparent

-Opaque window on mouse hoover - turn window opaque when mouse is over it's area, and turn it transparent when it's outside

-Transparent menu popups - Turn popup menus transparent with fading

-Transparent window borders-Turn some window borders transparent using native borders theme.

-Invisible desktop-Hide icons on desktop when it isn't focused.

-Window kinetics-Window will its momentum during move

-Jelly windows-Deform window shape depending on direction of its move in wobbly style

-Fluid windows-Deform window shape during move like it would be made from fluid

-Window bounce-Makes window bounce on activation

-Creation sparkle-Creates sparkle on window title bar at window creation

-Contrastful windows-Decrease saturation of non-active windows

-Window quiver-Minimizes or restore non-active windows on active window quiver movement

-Window edge maximize-Maximizes window to half-width of screen when moved outside the screen edge.

-Window edge snap - Make windows snap to each other and screen edge.

-Minimize non-active window - Minimizes non-active windows

-Picture wallpaper-board-Generate wallpaper filled with random images from User picture folder or Nimi folder in application data folder

- Picture highlight - Generate wallpaper containing one image from User picture folder, highlighted on adapted background.

-Fluid wallpaper - wallpaper is being like made of fluid

- Screen frost - Generate effect of covering wallpaper with frost.

-Smooth wallpaper - smooths wallpaper image

-Showcase- Press Windows key and tabulator to switch windows in showcase.



More information on [link] (videos etc.)



Changelog:

X line codename: Bastet

10.1 31052009

-updated two cores (detection etc.)

-added new graphic engine short name nimioru

-added new GUI

-added repositories

-3rd part software and Bastet scripts support

-added few new effects like fluid windows, opaque window on mouse hoover etc.

-updated few effects like picture highlight, rewritten for using new graphics core core

#list is long, it got over 100+ updates, new features, code revision etc.

11052009

-updated effects and core

-fixed few problems

#I managed to create environment perfect for testing - resulting in fixing a lot of bugs and problems.

10052009

-new core

-updated effects

-added new effects

-fixed few things

#more information soon

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9 codename: Mirage

+updated Jelly Windows to 4.0

+added transparent window borders

+added Mirage core and Nimiovercast graphics engine

+updated a lot of plugins and core

+updated center - redesigned, added compatibility options with other effects

8 RC5 codename: Reflection

+updated Jelly Windows to 3.3

+replaced some graphic functions

+optimized code

(rest of chagelog removed - page would be too long)



Tested under: Vista Home Basic, XP

Reported to work: Vista, Windows 7

Possibly, would also work on: 2000

  

Nimi Visuals X .1 01062009 - Bring 23 MacOS effects to Windows