Bonk'd Audio Visualizer
Bonk'd Industries · 2022 · Music-Based Procedural Generation, Casual, Relaxing, Modern, Colorful
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About Bonk'd Audio Visualizer
Features
The Bonk'd Audio Visualizer is a 3D audio visualizer written in C/C++ with Vulkan, designed for Linux first, Windows second. It is designed to be lightweight, fast, and low latency. Future planned features include:
-Desktop background rendering
-Customizable colors (can be customized with command line options right now)
-Customizable speed (can be customized with command line options right now)
-Customizable wave heights/sample rate/sample size (also customizable via command line options right now)
Stretch goals depending on reception:
-VR
-Control of viewport
-Gamification of some sort
Usage
Simply start Bonk'd Audio Visualizer and start playing your favorite music and enjoy! Fruther configuration can be changed with launch options, explained in the Manual.txt included with game files, soon to be available through a configuration file, and then potentially a UI to change things live. Hit escape to close the program.
Notes
If you're running on Linux by default the application uses PipeWire, an option to use straight ALSA is available with -alsa in the launch options, it presently connects to the mic instead of the default output device, a fix is in the works. Testing was completed on Fedora 36, but any linux with Pipewire and proper Vulkan drivers should work with the default settings just fine.
Many features are available through launch parameters, customization of the rendering, swapping starting monitors, switching audio interface, and forcing usage of integrated or dedicated GPUs are just a few of the available options through launch parameters. These features are being moved into a config file, and then later into a GUI application, but have been provided as launch options to give access to them as early as possible.
For convenience, the launch parameters are listed below, and are included in the Manual.txt in the software installation.
Available options:
Option syntax >>>> description
-wh (integer) >>>>> set wave height, default is 25
-a (real number) >>>>> set alpha (transparency) default 0.25
-mt (integer) >>>> set move time default 6
-alsa >>>>> use ALSA instead of PipeWire (linux only)
-window >>>>> run windowed instead of fullscreen
-fi >>>>> force use of integrated GPU*
-fd >>>>> force use of dedicated GPU*
-debug >>>>>> print debug output to bav_log.log
-display >>>>> set which display to render to (fullscreen only)
*Steam appears to "hide" GPUs from Vulkan when multiple GPUs are present on a machine. You can run the program from command line/terminal with the force parameters and they will function as expected, but through Steam you may run into trouble with them. There may be ways to circumvent this with environment variables or how you run steam, but I've not found a surefire way to do so, ymmv.
Trailer music graciously provided by NCS, link to song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4DyBUG242c
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
manual could explain a bit more but other than that is pretty cool3 found this helpful
This is brilliant, and runs extremely well in mi [b]Linux[/b] system. I only wish it had two options. 1. Windowed mode, so I can change tunes while the animation is on (you can do this by alt tabing and then alt tabing or clicking back to the fullscreen app, but a windowed mode still would be appreciated. 2. A way to change colors via keyboard. You can change the colors via launch commands, but it'd be cool if you could change colors (or even better, color palettes) on the fly while using the app.2 found this helpful
Its been almost 20 hours of concurrent playing of this visualizer. The Visualizer has a live desktop audio reaction. Meaning you can watch it as you play music from your computer, or YouTube, or spotify, etc. in my opinion, its worth it. Some screenshots ive posted involve shader use which makes it look outstanding aswell.1 found this helpful
It is a great bit of software; I like how simple it is. It's really good for when I'm working on stuff and need something on in the background to keep me focused. The only issue is that there is no easy way to change the colour/wave height, I eventually got it working, but it wasn't very clear. a Built in UI would be better instead of messing with launch options. I still would totally recommend tho.
Really funky and funny, sometimes it's just pleasing to have this run in the background for a bit when you have little of anything to do. Would be amazing if it could also double as a wallpaper.
its nice and smooth i like to run it in the background of calls or music i hear sorta looks soothing great work
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