[TUT][3D Bootanimation]DTStereo3D v.1.2 [7 DEC]

Presenting DTStereo3D for ICS EVO 3D ROMs with working 3D Panel

It took a long time until I finally fixed all the issues of my 3D Bootanimation, but finally it’s ready to hit xda officially!
What you get is a real stereoscopic bootanimation for your EVO 3D (ty argraben).
I also made a tutorial for those who also want to explore the amazing possibilities of 3D bootanimations.

3D Preview:

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Download:

DTstereo3D AROMA Installer

Installation:

Well, first check if you are using an ICS ROM with working 3D Panel, then the only thing you have to do is to open the AROMA zip from above in your touch recovery, select your current ROM (Sense or AOSP,...), let it finish and then enjoy the 3D animation.
This bootanimation will overwrite the existing bootanimation. For MIUI – Users: The theme bootanimation will no longer work. (The rest of the theme will.)

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Important notes:

This bootanimation is designed to be an example for more. I think everybody appreciates when more designers start to do stereoscopic bootanimations.
The only thing I want you to remember and I want you to do is to give proper credits to the bootanimation binary – to give credits to argraben who did this incredible binary. And if you are using my bootanimation also mention my name too.
You know it cost a lot of time and I know that you will honor it.

Huge thanks to:

Agrabren – for his awesome binary and giving me the chance to make the first ever stereoscopic bootanimation *feeling proud* -- dude you’re just awesome

ilDuce – who told agrabren that I might be able to do 3D bootanims and also for all the quick help later.

Turge – for helping me with my AROMA script (next time I will do better – I promise )

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First of all, you always need two source images which are later merged together.

Second, don’t try to “3D” something which is 2D, it will not look like you want it to.(Ugly layers :$)

Third, you need to have a 3D animation program (e.g. Blender) and an after effect or a video editing software to arrange your loop parts.(e.g. after effects, premiere pro, magix, vegas,…)

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If you use blender, you’ll soon notice a little problem: it doesn’t come with stereoscopic support like for example Cinema 4D.
BUT - there are a lot of tutorials somewhere in the web (just use Google) which shows some quiet good workarounds for this.
Anyway if you are lazy to search (like me ), I can recommend you this tutorial.
It’s quiet good to understand and very useful: http://www.noeol.de/s3d/

In the end you just imagine how we humans recognize 3D. We have two cameras (our eyes) and a limited amount of focus. That means when we put an object too close to our eyes we are not able to see it in detail or even sharp (we see it twice).
Consequently the same will happen when the objects are too close to the cameras in your animation program.
So you either have to activate depth of field (so that the object gets blurry – like in reality) or you should move away from object.

When you’ve done your animation you should export every camera as a picture sequence in separate folders. You then can open up Stereo Photo Maker (you find it in this section) and Covert the exported frames into “3D”.

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Select “File > multi conversion”:

A new window pops up asking you which files you want to convert.

First of all we’ll go to the source folder of the left images. Directly under the folder area we have the different modes how spm will import our source images.
I selected independent left and right images – it’s easier to handle, but it depends on how you export the images from your animation program.
Like I said I would suggest you to export the in two separate folders, it will guarantee you the best quality.

Anyway we then select the directory of the right images. (little Checkbox)

The next step is important. We have to select the merging mode.
We’ll select “Column Interlaced” from the dropdown list. If you need to you also can activate “swap l/r” – it sometimes gives you better results.(Things come out of the screen, or go into it)

Finally we just have to select our output folder.

Then click on “Convert All Files” this will take a minute and then you are ready to go.

Create a desc.txt with the usual stuff, but then add a new line after containing “d3”. This will tell the bootanimation binary to turn on portrait 3D mode.

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Tip: You better merge the pictures in full-res and then select JPG as compression method(Q:99). Otherwise 3D will not look as good as it could.(Due to low-res or too big files (png))

Tip 2: The bootanimation binary is concerned about speed that’s why it only renders in 16-bits. This can make gradients not look as smooth as they maybe look on your computer. Just keep that in mind.

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bohdee said:

Teh best Bootanimation I have ever seen! Waiting for Miui version.

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fatjoejr2001 said:

Will this animation be improved in anyway and see an update in the future or is it done (final)? Maybe the colors could be a bit more vivid or how about the problem with 3D still being active after boot... Just some suggestions. Great boot animation BTW, I would love a 3D outro animation when you turn off the phone. Thanks :good:

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Tomszyn said:

Hi, how can i uninstall this animation?

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