lol 3d world file browsing!

[MkfIbK7a]

TDFSB apparently it takes your filesystem and creates a 3d world with it
sounds cool but my computer doesnt support open gl...
anyone have any comments or used it ever


this is from the synaptic entry its in the universe repo...

A 3D filesystem browser
TDFSB reads directory information and displays it as a 3D
world. cd'ing into another directory is possible by simply
walking into the assigned sphere. It also reads images and
text files and displays their contents.

though this was funny and wanted to share it:D

wert

[Hendrixski]

sounds cool, I'll definately check it out. Is it anything like the new document browsing they have on the lg3d window manager?

[MkfIbK7a]

dont know but i think that it gives you something to walk around with and you walk around and look at files...

[Hendrixski]

HOLY %$*& that is awesome

I like it!!!!

I'm not sure how useful it is, but it's a lot more fun than a 2d display.

SWEET. Thanks for posting this. Everyone should check this out!!!!!

[~LoKe]

Pretty neat, unfortunately I don't know wtf I'm doing.

Instructions?

[MkfIbK7a]

EDIT: See below post!

[MkfIbK7a]

ahh here you go a man file...


NAME

tdsfb - A 3D filesystem browser.
SYNOPSIS

tdfsb
tdfsb [options]
DESCRIPTION

Simply walk into the spheres for cd'ing into another directory. Select an object by pointing at it with the crosshair and press the left mouse button. or hold the left mouse button and press any key to select the first object that begins with that character (case sensitive). While an object is selected press the right mouse button simultaneously automatic approach the object. If an mp3 or mpeg1 video file is selected press the RETURN key to start the playback.
For a complete description (include keys), see the /usr/share/doc/tdfsb/README.gz file.
This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.
OPTIONS

-V
or
--version
Show version of program.

SEE ALSO

sdl-config(1).
AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Rafal Zawadzki <bluszcz@ats.com.pl>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

[phossal]

Totally useless. Press F for the fullscreen effect. Totally useless but bigger. It's worth checking out though. lol

[hardyn]

anybody remember movie Hackers? with the Gibsons 3d file system? I would still like to see somebody do something like that.

Its a good kill of a couple of hours if you haven't seen it!
(get a good laugh when they talk about 'burns notebook, but hey it was '95)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113243/

[BarfBag]

That's really cool! Reminds me of the file view in Hackers. That movie really sucked, but I must say - that part of it was freakin' amazing. ^_^

[MkfIbK7a]

hey can someone post a screenshot of this?

[jasay]

Pretty neat, unfortunately I don't know wtf I'm doing.

Instructions?


=======================================
Esc quit F1/F2 speed +/-
Mouse move look F3/F4 rot +/-
UP forward F5/F6 ball detail
DOWN backward HOME start pos
L/R step aside LMB select object
END ground zero +RMB|CTRL appr.obj
F7/F8 max fps +/- +ENTER play mpg/mp3
"t" filenames "g" ground cross
"c" crosshair "d" display
"." dot files "p" print FPS
"r" rel./get mouse "f" fullscreen
"l" reload dir "b" image bricks
"u" cd.. "a" alphasort
"m" shading " " flying
"h" show help "i" print GL info
"0" jump home "o" classic nav
"s" save config "#" fps throttle

"1|3|q|e" Up|Down|Left|Right
"2|w" Forward|Backward
PgUp/Down or MMB+Mouse move up/downward
=======================================


Edit: Yay musics! (Don't poke too much fun now ;-))Pic (http://www.johnandjess.com/Random/Screenshot-TDFSB: home-jasay-My Music.png)

[ZylGadis]

It managed to hard-crash my laptop already. True, I tried to enter a remotely mounted directory (through sshfs), but that should not matter more than it does for cd. I'm removing it as I write.

[MkfIbK7a]

screenshot?
please?

[phossal]

screenshot?
please?

You're not missing anything, we promise. (http://download.freshmeat.net/screenshots/12856.jpg)

[phossal]

This is more what it looks like on my machine. (http://www.tastyrabbit.net/gfx/tdfsb/tdfsb00.png)

[Polygon]

that reminds me of the 3d like view that the one computer the girl was using towards the end of jurassic park.

[bobbybobington]

hey! I know this, its unix...

I dont recall what the line is exactly but close enough...

[BWF89]

that reminds me of the 3d like view that the one computer the girl was using towards the end of jurassic park.
I was just thinking that.

You can get the program used there in SGI's website.

http://www.sgi.com/fun/freeware/3d_navigator.html

I made a thread about it awhile ago.

[MkfIbK7a]

I was just thinking that.

You can get the program used there in SGI's website.

http://www.sgi.com/fun/freeware/3d_navigator.html

I made a thread about it awhile ago.

wow that one looks even lamer than this one!

no offence

[nalmeth]

Yeah, tdfsb is for pimps.

For a cool effect, if you have Beryl, put tdfsb fullscreen on one desktop, xcruise on another, and yeah, do your thing.

I hope someone picks it up and does some more work, I love it.

[phossal]

3D Browsing is stupid. From a productivity standpoint, it's a step backward from classic 2D point and click, which is horrible compared to a .bashrc full of aliases. Even if they make it so all of my atoms were broken down and piped into the process directly, so I could actually walk into my files, it would be stupid. Worse, combining it with another waste of time, Beryl? I'd rather go back to the days of punch cards. It would take less time, even if I had to manually punch them all.

[nalmeth]

Beryl? I'd rather go back to the days of punch cards. It would take less time, even if I had to manually punch them all.
You go do that ;)
Who said it had anything to do with productivity?

Its F U N, and I N T E R E S T I N G
Nothing less, nothing more.

[Tomosaur]

Woah, awesome. You can listen to music and watch movies in it aswell! I like to zoom right into the movie file and make it fullscreen, then hold left-click and hit enter.

This is absolutely brilliant. Sure, it could do with a little polishing, especially faster file browsing and some better textures, but it is very, very good.

[Engnome]

For a cool effect, if you have Beryl, put tdfsb fullscreen on one desktop, xcruise on another, and yeah, do your thing.


Ok tried it. Worked fine until I activated rotate cube mode, my skydome conflicted with the transparent desktop + opengl filebrowsers. :mad:

[Lord Illidan]

Not bad, but the quality doesn't look good.

[blueturtl]

I get an error trying to run it:
freeglut ERROR: Function <glutStrokeCharacter> called without first calling 'glutInit' :confused:

[hardyn]

your prolly missing some 3d libs.

[nalmeth]

Ok tried it. Worked fine until I activated rotate cube mode, my skydome conflicted with the transparent desktop + opengl filebrowsers. :mad:
What do you mean?
It works good for me, as long as I maximize rather than go fullscreen, I guess thats what I meant to say :-k
Screenshots are all f'd up tho :neutral: Is that what it looks like for you normally? Is cube transparency set to windows aswell?

[insane_alien]

wow, get drunk and try it. it looks so much better.

[Yossarian]

This is a pretty cool program.

I've got a p3 1 ghz 512 ram with a 32 meg video card and it runs just fine, but some folders with too many objects cause it to choke.

I made myself a little picture gallery with some mozart.

[troymcdavis]

This has some potential. I don't know if anyone has heard of it, but this kind of reminds me of Portal, the Half-Life 2 mod. This might be where things are going. Every folder is a room; your desktop is represented as the top of an actual desk maybe? After playing around with it (read: figuring out the odd and somewhat counter-intuitive controls) it's certainly growing on me. Other than that, the look is not top notch, but that's been covered pretty thoroughly.

A screen for those interested. (http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a69/troymcdavis/TDFSB.png)

[MkfIbK7a]

hey look i found one where you fly!

sudo apt-get install xcruise

[jdm2]

I just bout the net edion of linux magazine pro and it had some 3d file system apps. I installed the TDFSB and it install fine but when I try to run it I get this:

jdm@jdm-desktop:~$ tdfsb
Reading /home/jdm/.tdfsb ...
* Read "20" for BallDetail
* Read "/" for StartDir
* Read "256" for MaxTexSize
* Read "400" for WindowWidth
* Read "300" for WindowHeight
* Read "640" for FullscreenWidth
* Read "480" for FullscreenHeight
* Read "0" for FullscreenDepth
* Read "0.200000" for GridRed
* Read "0.200000" for GridGreen
* Read "0.600000" for GridBlue
* Read "1" for ImageBricks
* Read "0" for ShowDotFiles
* Read "1" for AlphaSort
* Read "0.000000" for BGRed
* Read "0.000000" for BGGreen
* Read "0.000000" for BGBlue
* Read "0" for FullScreen
* Read "1" for ShowCrossHair
* Read "0" for ShowGroundCross
* Read "0" for ClassicNavigation
* Read "0" for FlyingMode
* Read "0" for MaxFPS
* Read "2.000000" for MoveVelocity
* Read "1.000000" for LookVelocity
* Read "1.000000" for NameRed
* Read "1.000000" for NameGreen
* Read "1.000000" for NameBlue
* Read "1" for LiftSteps
* Read " " for KeyFlying
* Read "h" for KeyHelp
* Read "0" for KeyJumpHome
* Read "f" for KeyFullScreen
* Read "." for KeyDotFilter
* Read "r" for KeyMouseRelease
* Read "l" for KeyReload
* Read "u" for KeyCDup
* Read "b" for KeyImageBricks
* Read "i" for KeyGLInfo
* Read "d" for KeyDisplay
* Read "c" for KeyCrossHair
* Read "p" for KeyFPS
* Read "g" for KeyGrndCross
* Read "m" for KeyShadeMode
* Read "t" for KeyFileNames
* Read "a" for KeyAlphaSort
* Read "o" for KeyClassicNav
* Read "2" for KeyForward
* Read "w" for KeyBackward
* Read "1" for KeyUp
* Read "3" for KeyDown
* Read "q" for KeyLeft
* Read "e" for KeyRight
* Read "s" for KeySaveConfig
* Read "#" for KeyFPSThrottle
* some values may be truncated later if out of range
freeglut ERROR: Function <glutStrokeCharacter> called without first calling 'glutInit'.
jdm@jdm-desktop:~$


Can you help me please? Thanks for the help.