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[Nexus One Themes and Apps] jeremy2:
excellent work Cyril

together with weather widget donate version clock + weather with the simple light skin it is just fantastic, it gives a 3D effect on the foreground of the planet...

keep up the good work!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] karnovaran:
Agreed, particularly to see more of the northern hemisphere, though I imagine he's limited by available imagery.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] aron7awol:
Can somebody please post the older version that had the realtime map? Even with the FCs I loved it and I wiped my phone last night without backing it up.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
don't worry, i've almost finished with that, i think i'll release it again this week end, but without the FCs this time ;)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] juju125:
Good job man, really appreciate your work...

can't wait for that:D
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] balabok:
The day/night terminator got hosed in the last update.

I really like how this is coming along. Great job!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Lancellini:
I use the earth live wallpaper and its awesome! The best live wallpaper would be if someone would create a live wallpaper that shows the nexus one boot screen as a live wallpaper. i would pay $5.00 in the app market if that livewallpaper happens to manifest. It would be the best of all.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Ace42:
Looks pretty nice would like to see some more effects:D
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pjcforpres:
You can change it manually if you want... And I am pretty sure it is correct, minus the slight angle, but that angle changes throughout the year because of the wobble...
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
I already added that option, you can make the earth spin around the natural earth rotation axis (fixed at 23.27, not varying with time (yet ;) ).

You'll have it in next update, with the come back of the realtime cloud+daylight map.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] MontAlbert:
thanks for a great wall. as long as the natural rotation is an option as those of us in Australia need to be able to see the centre of the universe more :P
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] beagz:
hey,

thanks for making this and providing such good support.

Keep up the good work.

Where is your donate button?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pjcforpres:
Yes, where is the "buy you a beer" option at?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
well if you really want to buy me a beer, i've put a donate button on the first post ;)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Konklone:
The newest version is out, with the realtime map, and it's awesome.

I suffer no force closes, but I've seen two problems so far with the realtime map:

1) When I first updated, the map was blank (I saw an un-mapped blank circle). Even if I switched to another map and then switched back, it was blank. I uninstalled the wallpaper, then installed fresh, and it worked.

2) However, even now I still sometimes get the blank globe. I set the refresh rate to be "Every wakeup", and now sometimes when I turn on the screen or come back from an application, it's a blank globe. I can get it to render again by leaving and coming back a couple times. Perhaps this'll be fixed if I make it have a higher refresh rate...

Still, totally awesome. Love the natural axis rotation, and the two new maps!

And again - if you document somewhere what kind of maps you need, maybe the community can make you some awesome ones.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Konklone:
The newest version is out, with the realtime map, and it's awesome. I suffer no force closes, but I've seen two problems so far with the realtime map:

1) When I first updated, the map was blank (I saw an un-mapped blank circle). Even if I switched to another map and then switched back, it was blank. I uninstalled the wallpaper, then installed fresh, and it worked.

2) However, even now I still sometimes get the blank globe. I set the refresh rate to be "Every wakeup", and now sometimes when I turn on the screen or come back from an application, it's a blank globe. I can get it to render again by leaving and coming back a couple times. Perhaps this'll be fixed if I make it have a higher refresh rate...

Still, totally awesome. Love the natural axis rotation, the inverse background slide motion, and the two new maps!

And again - if you document somewhere what kind of maps you need, maybe the community can make you some awesome ones.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
I thought i was ok with those damned white globes !! i'll look for that.

I don't really recommend the use of the every wakeup mode except in wifi, and i should test in that mode, just made test in edge and 3g so far.

!! each refresh consume around 70kB datas !!

Regarding to the maps, i posted on the forst post the site wher i grab the maps. these are planar spherical mappings.

I plan to externalize all maps to sdcard to save space in the internal memory storage, and to allow anyone to put his custom maps and backgrounds. that's the next release i think
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Amdathlonuk:
Good man, well deserved!

Now, to be REALLY picky can you do a nice realsitic star bckground with a black or VERY dark blue backdrop? :D
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pjcforpres:
6X875793CC697932V

I am from the other side of the pond, so not sure how much beer that buys over there... let me know what a 6 pack runs of your favorite, and when I get my next pay check I will get you one!

On a related note, I think if you offered 2 versions once the bugs are ironed out, a free one with limited maps and options, and a paid one, you would make a small fortune! I know you mentioned possibly do the live weather wallpaper... I really hope you do since that would be amazing!

This is truly one of, if not the best, apps I have ever experience on Android, and hands down the best live wallpaper!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] aron7awol:
I'm having the same white circle problem also, but I am continually impressed at how much this improves with every version. Tremendous job. Thank you!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] chopsui:
The real-time map is always daytime. Is that normal? It used to have day and night
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pjcforpres:
Did you uninstall the app before installing the new version? Mine is working perfect!

BTW, I have updates set to once every 3 hours, which has come and gone once, no white dot issue on a 3 bar EDGE connection at my home. I am using real-time map, with proper axis, background #3, and I slow my rotation WAY down to one notch above the absolute lowest (I like the slow spin, what can I say?)

Hey, speaking of possible features, maybe make it so we can set the speed based on how long we want one revolution to take based on a numeric value?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] elio:
Excellent work! But the live-earth in the new version is stuck on "loading"
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Weees:
New Idea

Let me start by Saying THANK YOU :)

Its a nice idea and it looks pretty cool and so thanks for making it free !

BUT

I have an idea that could make it look alot nice (IMHO). I have attached a couple of pics taken from COD : MW2. and its pic of earth, only its done so nicely, and it looks gorgeous, its amazing to just be looking at it. Now Im guessing its not easy to make the earth look the way it looked in MW:2 but if there is any chance to make it look that way.......it will be the best Live wallpaper for Android....EVERRR :):)

Let me know what you think !.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] htcmagic:
I must congratulate you on producing this excellent live wallpaper, its my default and the one i show off my nexus to other people.

Great work thanks.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] denimjunkie82:
I love the new updates, unixseb!

Natural axis and the new maps are awesome!

Inverted background is really cool, I now try to keep my homescreens as barebones as possible in order to show this off.

There's 1 more element I think you can add which will put the coolness of this wallpaper on another level.

- Have the globe rotate at 72 degrees in the same direction as the homescreen swipes (5 homescreens, 360 degrees/5 = 72). Actually, 72 degrees might be extreme since the background and foregrounds don't fully reach a 360 rotation anyways. If you can implement this, I'm sure you can experiment and find a good balance on how much the globe should rotate in order to achieve a nice effect.

- Have this rotation override the automatic rotation, but auto-rotation kicks back in after the swipe is complete and you're on the next homescreen.

- Set the speed of this swipe-rotation somewhere between the fast speed of the icons in the forground and the stars in the background.

If this can be done, it would complement the inverse background sliding perfectly, and the "matrix" effect is achieved :)

Beer money coming your way!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] redmongoose:
Thanks for the updates, you have really moved this forward.

This is a great app.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
just posted an update for you,

there's now an option to sync the rotation with the screen sliding, if you put the rot speed at 0 and activate planet slide, you have a really cool effect !

thx for the beer ;)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] denimjunkie82:
Wow thanks for the super quick update! It looks amazing now, especially going screen to screen slowly to see the background, globe, and foreground nearly in sync with the rotation. I think the slide rotation could be lessened, maybe 1/2 of the current rotation per swipe. It currently rotates almost half of the whole globe. It might rotate smoother too if lessened.

I can't wait to go to work tomorrow to show this off to my fanboy co-workers.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pjcforpres:
And how much does a 6 pack run on your side of the pond in euro's?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
beer and wine is cheap in France ;)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] bendotson:
Thanks guy.

Contributed something for your fine work. Keep it up.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pzumk:
I like the realtime feature.

Does it really refresh the map including the lights every 5 minutes if set? Because at the site where you got the map from it sais "The clouds are updated every 3 hours with current weather satellite imagery." or is this just for the weather?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
the only thing you're refreshing every 5 minutes is the shadow part of the texture !

Cloudmaps changes every 3 hours, and i think that city lights are statics (not sure about that).

I plan to release a glsl fragment shader dooing the same job, without having to refresh to update the night shadow. this way, updates can occurs every 3 hours.

Anyway, here's the way i implemented the refresh interval. In fact it is more a TTL for the cached texture file, i mean if you choose refresh every 5 minutes and keep your phone asleep during 30 mins, you won't download 6 textures, just one, when you wake up the phone. This way is the better to avoid downloading things you'll never see !
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pjcforpres:
Brag it up! I am a big red wine fan and get worked over pretty well on pricing here in the US... get worked ove ron my Jameson and Guinness too, and on this side we don't get the red bottle Heinikken...
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pwnvds:
Can I ask where you get the live earth image? Is it really a live image of the earth, clouds and lights and all?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] chopsui:
it would be nice to have an option where the globe is rotating about the natural axis but is tilted such that the day/night terminator is always vertical. The way it is now, it kinda looks like it's wobbling.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] aron7awol:
Would the bumpmap here be of any use in order to texturize the sphere?

http://planetpixelemporium.com/earth.html
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] flak0:
earth not spinning on natural 23 degree axis

Dev I love this wallpaper first off. I use it everyday. I wanted to let u know that the natural axis feature is not working correctly. It seems that the map is tilted 23 degrees however the earth is not spinning on that axis. For example the united states and south America are tilted wrong. This time of year the sun is facing the southern hemisphere. So Africa for example position should be at the bottom left half quadrant and exit almost at the top right quadrant to achieve the natural axis spin. If this is achieved then it will look awesome. I mess with processing sometimes, all u gotta do is convert 23.4 degrees to radians. Ill post a pic of the desired effect later. Again awesome live wallpaper.

Picture referencing above
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
Thanks a lot flak0, i'll have a deeper look at that.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
I don't use bumpmaps so far, i will when i'll release the gles2.0 version with glsl shaders.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] sixstring:
Strange...the wallpaper worked just fine until yesterday. :confused:

Now I only get a white sphere when I choose the realtime earth map.

The other maps work just fine...

I tried reinstalling, rebooting and reinstalling, etc. nothing helps.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] aron7awol:
Wow I didn't realize you were planning that already. That would look absolutely amazing. Awesome job!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
The cached file on your sdcard must be damaged !

try to remove manually the directory /sdcard/earthrot, it should fix your problem.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] sixstring:
Yup, that did it !!! Thanks a lot, I would have never thought of that....
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
I don't know if it is possible, but if it is, is someone feel brave enough to send me the US comments of the app on the market, i'm looking for a way to get them, but i have only access to the french comments, and as we must be only 10 peoples to have a nexus yet in France, i have no idea if people like or not the app.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] david1171:
http://www.cyrket.com/p/android/com.seb.SLWP/

Hopefully that will let you see the US comments. I love this wallpaper. :)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pwnvds:
That should do the trick. 4.58 out of 5 stars is pretty much one of the best ratings you can get...

As for features, I would like to request that in touch mode, when you are done touching, that the earth returns to its normal upright state and continues rotating.

Also, when the earth ends up upside down, it rotates in the opposite direction that you touch it.

And finally, I donated 3 Euro so you can buy a couple of beers ;)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] na_rsx:
How do i add this, does my phone have to be rooted?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] czm:
it is in the marketplace if you search for earth live
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pzumk:
alright, thanks!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] chelsea.tone:
I had the "white sphere" today too, but it sorted itself :) LOVE this wallpaper

Everyone who see's it is impressed :cool:
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] audino:
im lovin it!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] TurboTsi:
Thanks a lot of the app. I have a strange request, I think it would look even more awesome if the background behind the earth rotates also. Not like the star field background but something that rotates maybe in a circular fashion. Kind of like in this video in 25-40 seconds at the beginning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcBV-cXVWFw
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
i'm thinking about animating the background ;) thx for the idea
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
thanks a lot, i thought cyrket was closed as it was down for a long time !!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
Regarding to "white globes", i have identified the problem, it is most of the time caused by a bad download, the easiest solution for now is to simply delete the /sdcard/earthrot directory.

I'm working on a fix to detect if all was ok during the download before caching the file and post a retexture event in the glthread.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pjcforpres:
I found an easy fix:

Open up the EarthRot live wallpaper using the set live wallpaper menu, go to settings, change update to on every wake up, set wallpaper... then put the phone to sleep for a couple seconds, wake it up, and then it is good to go! I then go back in, and change update period back to once every 3 hours.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] SANTilt:
This is the coolest wallpaper bar none, IMO!

Good work!

One thing, everytime I reboot the phone, the wallpaper is back to what it used to be...?

Disregard, uninstalled previous wallpaper, and all is fine.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] audino:
im still lovin it!

do you know the ps3 theme when youre listining to music?

there is a earthball spinng slowly but it even moves forward and back i mean to the camera and away... maybe it could be a great effect

like here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHfc_28rn6g&feature=related
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pwnvds:
What would be really cool is if the globe and/or background rotated with the direction you are facing the phone - kind of like how Google Maps Streetview works in Compass mode...

Also, anyone else notice a big effect on battery life? Mine has decreased a lot in the last couple days but I'm not sure if its this app or not.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] audino:
no effevt on battery and now few weeks after gettin my n1 the baterry reach two days
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] czm:
I am pleased to say that this app has had no discernible impact on my battery life (I thought it would kill it).
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
well regarding to the battery, i paid a real attention to this.

the only thing that can lower the battery level is a "refresh evey wakeup" mode for the realtime map, and a lot of wakeups. As it is downloading datas on each refresh, it shorten battery life.

But when the phone is asleep, really nothing happened !! all threads are sleeping and just waiting for a wakeup, and there's no downloads in the background.

I really don't think this wallpaper have a negative impact on batteries.

As a different subject, here's the list of the features of the next update (this week end i think):

- no more white circles, or they autofix themselves

-saturn (with rings)

-proper natural axis rotation, with axis for all planets.

-a "random map" mode which choose a random planet on each wakeup.

-maps of geonosis, naboo and hoth.

-better handle of the boot process when realtime map is on.

-new "loading" texture to replace the ugly blurry one.

-various opengl engine enhancement (you'll probably won't notice that, but i do :) )

-a donate button included in the appli in case you find it too cheap :)

Hope you'll like it !!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] secund3r:
just a suggestion, how about allowing the ability to put in our own backgrounds, from the gallery or whatever.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
it is planned, you'll soon have the ability to just put any readable picture in the /sdcard/earthrot/backgrounds folder, you'll also hav a maps folder to put custom maps.

not in the next release yet, but soon.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] shmigao:
hi there, i admire this one a lot... just what i needed! :-)

one suggestion, maybe you can try to make an optional "atmospheric glow" around the globe. right now it looks too sharp on the edges.

and i would love a very simple background with only slightly glowing stars in the background.

other than that: awesome work!!

:D
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] secund3r:
+1 to this.

also, could also make a donate version for it, I would gladly provide my support for an app that I *always* have running.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] flak0:
earth rot update released in market..
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] flak0:
Dev the update is awesome. Im speechless. I will donate you several bottles of wine tonight. One request I have is to see if it is possible to have the moon orbit the earth too. Is it possible to have 2 spheres? This would be awesome or possibly add the sun in the distance. Wow Again..
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] mistajayz:
backgrounds dont work

Hi. I have a rooted G1 running 2.1 and this is my favorite wallpaper but for some reason I can't get any of the backgrounds to work. Can someone help me plz. Thank you
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] shmigao:
+1

i also was wondering whether that would be possible, as it would make the whole thing much more interesting & fun. like a mini solar system :-)

i guess this is a much bigger undertaking - but it's exciting too

hehe... we have been offered the earth, but we want the universe

again, great job Dev!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
Well it look like the g1 under 2.1 behave like the emulator ! I can't make the background shows in it, just on my nexus.

The bg is drawn calling the glDrawTexfOES function, which is a 1.1 extension, maybe it is not supported by g1 hardware.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] flak0:
Dev part 1 of my donation is complete. Enjoy ur wine. Thanks again.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] liam.lah:
awesome wallpaper. im amazed how quickly it has evolved into something quite advanced and feature packed.

i downloaded the latest update and iam no longer able to scroll the planet along its vertical axis. will only rotate about the horizontal axis.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] MontAlbert:
funnily enough i love the new loading earth. i want that map without the loading words on it please :D

bloody awesome wallpaper though- i was thinking of making my own but why bother? this is that good.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
yeah sorry for that, my bad, i'll fix that tonight !!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] audino:
im lovin it can put some more backgrounds from nasa into it ther re serval avaible on the net with great colors
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
you'll soon have the abilitie tou use your own backgrounds :) all you'll have to do is to put the files in the right folder of the sdcard. it will be in the next release i think.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
i have reports that says the realtime map is still not working correctly;

does some of you have troubles with it ?? (for example white globes again or sticked with the "loading" globe ??)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] czm:
I had this yesterday before the latest update - and after the update it is the same (although the loading text is in a different colour)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
really strange, it works fine on some nexus and not on others !!

i don't understand but i'll keep looking for a solution.

Sorry for that !

--------edit

If someone having the problem can provide me a logcat extract, it would help. ThanksThanks
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] socalphil:
I have the loading issue on Nexus one. I found if I change to update on wakeup it fixes it. I am wondering if the X hour refresh does not initially load, but waits for the X delay first. i.e. after the delay it will load.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ssmithri:
I love this but the update before this past one, I lost the realtime map... just a white ball. Now I have the red "loading" text.

I am not rooted, stock phone. Can I do a logcat without being unlocked/rooted?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gururise:
Latest version force closes on me. Im using CM-Beta 4. Prior version worked just fine.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] shmigao:
i have none of these problems, last update fixed the "white ball" issue - all is well

running cm 5.0-beta5
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] tizzl10:
yes, but I got it to work after I manually updated the refresh rate.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ruasoh:
Neptune

Here is a Neptune skin you can use. I'll try to see if I have any Coruscant, Mustafar, or Death Star skins when I get home ;)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] shmigao:
updated to CM 5.0-N1 made it stickied with "loading"

fix uid mismatches in Amon_Ra recovery fixed that issue for me. I think it's a permissions related issue
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] BrooklynAvi:
Truly awesome work. I don't use Live Wallpapers but kept this on for almost two days which is two days longer than I've used any Live Wallpaper. I love outer space. Way to go.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] liam.lah:
last update fixed the rotational problems. thanks. there is a glass of wine on me in your paypal.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
Thanks a lot, i'll include that in the next release.

And if you found good maps for Coruscant, Mustafar, or Death Star, you're a master, coz all if found so far is crappy.