Comments on OpenOffice.org Ninja: Impressive Eye Candy: 3D OpenGL Transitions

Jakomo: Please see the post Where is the OpenGL 3D...

2008-04-29T15:21:00.000-06:00

Jakomo: Please see the post Where is the OpenGL 3D extension for Impress?

hey are just coping Mac's Keynote without Innovati...

2008-04-29T04:46:00.000-06:00

hey are just coping Mac's Keynote without Innovation :/

Hi everybody!Is there any schedule on the release ...

2008-04-24T04:35:00.000-06:00

Hi everybody!

Is there any schedule on the release of the extension? I can't find any information about it on any OO related site.

Thanks alot,

Jakomo

ok for transaction but for animation ?reflects on ...

2008-04-18T10:10:00.000-06:00

ok for transaction but for animation ?
reflects on images and somethinj like this?

blog: I expected it would be released by now, so ...

2008-04-06T23:32:00.000-06:00

blog: I expected it would be released by now, so I am not sure. I tried building it as an .oxt extension, but I have not yet succeeded. For testing, either use the download from this page or simply build OpenOffice.org from source using the flags --enable-opengl and --enable-ogltrans. Also, it seems Ubuntu, Debian, and Mandriva have the ogltrans package in their repositories (maybe unstable repositories). Finally, I expect OxygenOffice will have it in OxygenOffice 2.4.0: you may check the OxygenOffice development snapshot site.

Is there any sort of time frame for the release of...

2008-04-06T22:54:00.000-06:00

Is there any sort of time frame for the release of the extension or instructions on how we might build it ourselves for testing?

Anonymous: No, this feature is never planned to be...

2008-03-28T08:46:00.000-06:00

Anonymous: No, this feature is never planned to be included with the official/vanilla edition of OpenOffice.org. It is intended as an extension which has not been released quite yet.

I gotta agree with jamielesouef here. Without tryi...

2008-03-28T02:22:00.000-06:00

I gotta agree with jamielesouef here. Without trying to sound overly negative, I really think 3D could be used for adding something actually functional and innovative instead of just new eye candy.

I'm wondering if the OpenGL transistions are bunde...

2008-03-28T02:15:00.000-06:00

I'm wondering if the OpenGL transistions are bundeled within the official 2.4 release .deb packages, which have been released yesterday? I'm unable to find them!

for ubuntu users:sudo apt-get install openoffice.o...

2008-03-27T22:31:00.000-06:00

for ubuntu users:
sudo apt-get install openoffice.org-ogltrans

Platform independence: It should be possible to ma...

2008-03-27T12:30:00.000-06:00

Platform independence: It should be possible to make it platform independent, but it required different glue on each platform; GLX on Linux, WGL on Windows, AGL on MacOS. It'll get there now that the code's in out. It may be further complicated by use of any libs to get the OpenGL context in the OpenOffice window and the mechanism to get the image into texture for teh rendering, but it's not a big deal really, it'll get ported, and all the more quickly because it's done using OpenGL. It's really a code portability issue, not every interface has a portable abstraction that makes sense for inclusion in OpenOffice. It's really not a big deal and the OpenGL code will port.

The aliasing vs anti-aliasing is a hardware based ...

2008-03-27T12:24:00.000-06:00

The aliasing vs anti-aliasing is a hardware based feature. You should be able to force multisample anti-aliasing in the driver. It is also straightforward to request it in the OpenGL code (and GLX or equivalent) but it's all somewhat orthogonal to the main feature here. It won't need a rewrite or anything to add it if it's not already supported and if you care you can do it now if you know how.

I think it's cool, well done.

Seems nice, but why is it not platform independent...

2008-03-27T03:54:00.000-06:00

Seems nice, but why is it not platform independent? Something that does only work on one specific platform is not following the philosophy of openoffice.

Tips for Ubuntu users who download the special bui...

2008-03-15T08:25:00.000-06:00

Tips for Ubuntu users who download the special build linked on this page:

1. Install with alien or use rpm -Uvh --no-md5.

2. Install the freedesktop RPM desktop integration package using RPM or alien.

3. Fix this error: /opt/openoffice.org2.4/program/soffice.bin: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_once_init_enter_impl

works great!

2008-03-13T01:19:00.000-06:00

works great!

I must resist the urge to try it on my EeePC. Can'...

2008-03-11T09:06:00.000-06:00

I must resist the urge to try it on my EeePC. Can't wait to see this project redistributed, I'll sure use this in my next presentationat school in June if available ! (I would have to rely on KeyJNOte otherwise).

Speaking about KKeyJNote... wouldn't it be possible to ad a few features from this app into this OOo extension? I'm thinking about the "Overview mode" and the "Highlight box" - as seen on http://keyjnote.sourceforge.net/

Andrew Z:Thank you very much. Md5sum is correct bu...

2008-03-06T13:28:00.000-07:00

Andrew Z:
Thank you very much. Md5sum is correct but the I have the following error during installation:
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /opt/openoffice.org2.4/program/libstdc++.so.6.1;47d05353: cpio: MD5 sum mismatch
Anyway, I'll try Kami's experimental build first.

Ah thanks. I guess I'll wait for the extension.

2008-03-02T18:07:00.000-07:00

Ah thanks. I guess I'll wait for the extension.

Anonymous: It is standard for the feature not to b...

2008-03-02T16:00:00.000-07:00

Anonymous: It is standard for the feature not to be included in any OpenOffice.org distribution. It is intended to be distributed as an extension. Your choices include: downloading the version I posted, waiting for the extension, and building OpenOffice.org from the source code.

I downloaded the OpenOffice 2.4 deb from openoffic...

2008-03-02T15:40:00.000-07:00

I downloaded the OpenOffice 2.4 deb from openoffice.org for Ubuntu. However, I don't seem to have the 3D slide transitions.

Y. Chao: I tried the tarball again, and it works f...

2008-02-29T08:02:00.000-07:00

Y. Chao: I tried the tarball again, and it works fine. Try downloading it again or grab Kami's experimental build (his is much larger).

For the torrent I posted, here are the md5sums:
0773fce720b2b91392f4770091ff7fa4 openoffice.org-core05-2.4.0-9268.i586.rpm
01336ed3d3229f5786f09e601aadb372 openoffice.org-core05u-2.4.0-9268.i586.rpm
75ca9620a2709b7ccb5dd470327b61b3 OOo-Dev_2.4.0_OOH680_m6_LinuxIntel_install_en-US.tar.bz2

Y. Chao,I think that this is a long way away from ...

2008-02-28T22:34:00.000-07:00

Y. Chao,

I think that this is a long way away from becoming main stream for OO.org.

Hey, I run all those cool 3D Desktops with my Linux Mint OS, but getting OO.org to do that my take a while.

Regards,

JJMacey
Phoenix, Arizona

Is the file of the provided BT link provided corru...

2008-02-28T22:21:00.000-07:00

Is the file of the provided BT link provided corrupted? I've successfully d/l it and un-tarred. However, core05 and core05 have md5 mismatch when rpm install.

JohnIs there a repo for this?There is no repo yet,...

2008-02-24T16:30:00.000-07:00

John

Is there a repo for this?

There is no repo yet, but once OpenOffice.org 2.4.0 comes out, there may be several choices. With some editions of OpenOffice.org, you may need to manually install the extension.

I'd like to see it done using Linux, and an opensource app.

The videos above were done on Fedora 7 in OpenOffice.org using Yukon and ffmpeg.

We are naysayers about this, because the title of ...

2008-02-23T08:35:00.000-07:00

We are naysayers about this, because the title of the topic was "IMPRESSIVE Eye Candy: 3D OpenGL Transitions". And when it fails to IMPRESS, we don't feel so forgiving :).
Nowadays you'd have imagined some shader goodness after reading the title. Like slides, burning like paper and being lifted up by wind, or simply falling down. Or a slide, that highlights a part of the current one (like a pill-button, but with some extra exposure and high-contrast of that part, while the rest alpha-fades-out and shows the background, then that highlighted part blurs+twirls+partially fades (and possibly moves out of screen) while the pill-button fades-out.
Also, start remembering transitions you've seen in games, mix them and voila you get another transition.