my new project needs a helping hand

[bakeacake]

Ok basically (this wasnt my idea, but a friend suggested it so i'll adopt/steal it), i do a lot of 3d modelling and so friend said i should make a screensaver that showcases all the stuff i made, nice and simple just show object in centre of screen, black background, rotate a couple of times, move onto next object. Anyhoo, problems i've hit are....

- I have no idea about opengl/directx/any alternative im unaware of
- I'm even furtherly uneducated about which would support .3ds files or anything.
- How on earth do you make a program into a screensaver...is there a special way of compiling it?
- would texturing be an issue?

tips/links/words of advice would all be most handy

Anyway i've prolly posted this on the wrong sort of board but im tired and its the best i can do just to type this out without falling asleep on keyboard, no doubt its got typo's ...sorry

toodles

[donkey]

Ron Thomas has some excellent graphics tutorials as well as one about screensavers, even an OpenGL example...

http://www.rbthomas.freeserve.co.uk

http://www.rbthomas.freeserve.co.uk/Screensavers.html

[bakeacake]

thanks so much...i'll have a nice read and thanks for moving it to a suitable place  :U

[psylem]

I don't know if there is a special way to make a screen saver, I think they are just normal programs. You just rename them from .exe to .scr and you're away (try it, it really works). I guess you just need to program it so that as soon as the mouse moves or a key is pressed the program terminates.