About some old and hard to maintain effects

[Neal Gompa]

On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 10:22 AM Vlad Zahorodnii <vladzzag at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/31/21 4:43 PM, Aleix Pol wrote:
> > Do you think these effects could be implemented using other
> > non-deprecated abstractions?
>
> Yes. Those effects need to render every animated window into an
> offscreen texture and then do their thing, e.g. map the offscreen
> texture on a cube or a cylinder, etc. The mechanics of getting the
> offscreen texture will possibly change as we progress with the scene
> redesign though.
>

I personally would be very sad if we lost those effects. I still use
the cube effect to dazzle people. :P

And yes, I still use it on one of my machines because I love being fancy. :)



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