WINDOWTAPPER 

seems that youtube has decided to recommend everyone this video after 10 months, so let me just say thank you everyone!! this is now my most viewed video, surpassing my former most viewed video just today at the time of writing this comment! with this surge of viewers comes more comments, which means more questions... so i'll use this comment to serve as a *Q&A* as i've seen a lot of the same questions posted here: ----------------------------------- _"is this just an animation or did you really get windows to do this?"_ yes! this is an actual application that can runs on windows fully automatically; no animation was done in post ----------------------------------- _"why didn't you add the gray window from the original video?"_ to be honest i really just wanted the project to be completed by the time i got around to doing it, as it had already been taking forever to finish. hope you understand though ----------------------------------- _"what did you code this in?"_ i used the Godot game engine, specifically version 3.5.1 (this turned out to be a huge mistake though, which i'm about to get into) ----------------------------------- _"how did you make this?"_ it was a long process which has a lot to go over, but i'll try my best to explain it all i'll start with the easy part: the window animations themselves. each window was a separate "scene" in the Godot engine, each running their own script and having their own "nodes" which are the animated components themselves; if you want further explanation on that part specifically, you'll have to look into how the engine itself works. the way i made the animations move in time with the music was that every script had a long, multiline string assigned to it that essentially served as its "animation timeline." each line of the string had 16 text characters, all representing 1/16 beats of the song, so each line was equal to one beat. each different character would represent a different "action" that the animation would do at that time. i'll give an example, the first 4 beats that the red window follows: v . . . v . . v . v . v v . ^ . v . . . v . . v . v . v v > ^ . v . . . v . . v . v . v v . ^ . v . . . v . . v . v . v v > ^ L (spaces were added to compensate for the lack of a monospace font in youtube comments) watching the start of the video a couple times, you can tell which character makes the window pulse in what direction. each window would have their own animation timeline that looks different from each other, but easily by far the most complex one was the last window, the magenta one. that was the easy part, but it may surprise you to hear that the rest of this was actually a programming disaster for me. i made several terrible choices during the making of this, so let me start with the most significant mistake i made: using specifically Godot version 3.5.1. the reason this was a mistake is because 3.5.1 doesn't have support for a game or project having multiple windows/subwindows. at the time of making this, the beta version of the next major update to the engine had already been out, but i avoided using it because i sort of wanted to wait until the full version was out before i got used to all of the changes. it turns out that Godot 4.0 indeed _did_ have support for subwindows, and had i known this, i would have probably saved 10 or so hours on the entire project... but oh well. you now might be thinking, how did i even make it have multiple windows if the version i had been using didn't support them at all? i'll be blunt with the answer to that question and say: an incredibly stupid and clunky method, where i would actually have every window as a SEPARATE executable file, and have the first window (the red one) automatically open the rest of them at predetermined times. if you think this is bad, it gets worse... whenever i would open the first window, i made it so that it writes the exact unix timestamp in milliseconds of when the song started playing, to a file. the rest of the windows would then, on initialization, read the file and synchronize their own animations to that timestamp. it was the only way i could think of to have the windows communicate to each other, since they were all separate applications. another problem with this is that it was extremely laggy to run all of them at once, so what i did was record 3 or 4 of them at a time and stitch all of the recordings together in Premiere afterwards. but rest assured, if it weren't for my slow-ish computer, it would've worked fine... i hope this doesn't ruin the authenticity for you, i tried my best :3 ----------------------------------- _"can i download this? if not, can i see the source code?"_ for a lot of reasons already mentioned, no, i will not be posting a download nor a link to the source code. sorry everyone ----------------------------------- alright, i hope that answers everything... if you still have any other questions, do feel free to ask them in the reply of this comment, and i'll try to answer them. again, thank you everyone! i promise i'll upload something cool in the next year or two

This is definitely up there amongst the more creative animations for this song!

Me: trying to sleep My last 15 braincells:

Oh man, the little details like the directional nudges to the beat and melody, this is beautiful! Brings me nostalgia to the windows error remix videos popular back in the day. Good work!

eight: "why is my palette acting up?" their palette:

That's what happens when 8 truly masters the Side Order palettes.

When the purple window said "☎️📞💬📱📶📵📳" I felt that

Every major and minor point of progress in the song: 0:03 First window (bass? kick/hi-hat?) appears 0:05 First note is played 0:06 Second unique note is played 0:08 Third unique note is played 0:12 Second window (synth?) appears, all notes from the first window are used 0:13 First note from second window plays 0:18 Second unique note from second window plays, all second window notes are used so far 0:21 Third window (general phonetic) appears 0:25 Fourth window (grunt voice?) appears 0:29 First window of the second row (voice "a") appears 0:33 Sixth window (voice "ah" 1, "o") 0:38 Seventh window (voice "oo"/"u") 0:42 Eighth window (voice sample "d"/"eh") 0:47 Bass and synth cut out temporarily 0:51 First three windows of the third row appear at once (voice "ah" 2 plays first, then two other windows that I don't know what to label with play) 0:56 All inactive windows become active again 1:12 Twelfth window (phone) 1:31 Most windows cut out as 1st pink window (continuous bass 1) appears. New synth notes filling up the rest of the orange window are unlocked and played. The height of the rectangle in the 1st pink window determines vertical position of synth notes 1:49 2nd pink window (continuous bass 2) appears. Height of rectangles in the 2nd pink window are determined by height of the rectangle in the 1st pink window. Some windows become active again 2:06 All windows become active again 2:23 FINAL WINDOW (3rd pink window, miscellaneous) appears, all notes played 2:41 Song finishes with sole purple window's no signal(?) noise 2:43 All windows are exited out of, with the 1st pink window slightly lagging behind In all seriousness though this is actually so good

I like how the blocks are original with the different shapes changing with the voice, but still hold some resemblance from the lines and dots

I've never listened to this song, but even without knowing the song the program is still incredibly impressive

this is the kind of video that would come out with a sequel 2 years later after it blows up somehow

literally amazing i hope frums sees this video

Literally the ending of Side Order. You cannot convince me otherwise.

this is so cool!! I’ve had wavetapper beepbooping around in my brain for like a month lol this animation is so engaging, very impressive!

Splatoon 3: Side Order (2024)

Feels like the sort of early malware ment just to show of the hackers talent and mess with the user a little.

i can't wait for this to start, it looks so cool

Imagine these windows as Rhythm Doctor windows 😬 Good work, man!

Quality stuff, as always! well done

1:32 when the chords started changing. that's when it became awesome for me. that progression is damn tasty man

This looks amazing and i haven't even watched the video yet Edit: I watched the video. Definitely lived up to the hype

oh my god, this is now my new favorite animation ever

this is how music will be made in the future

Honestly looks much cooler than the original bga

It sounds pretty random, yet at the same time it's not. I love it. 5 stars for you.

How did you even make this? This is insanely cool.

This is super creative! Very well done

M_rld on his way to randomly upload completely different content after 6 months out of the blue

this is a certified territory takeover moment

i’m so excited for this

this is truly a "me when" moment

love the use of easing. every movement is smooth, not over or understated.

that's actually really cool and really well made :)

when the magenta window said ↕️🔽🔼↖️🔽↩️🔼🔽⤴️➡️⬇️↘️↖️↘️↖️↘️↖️↘️⬇️⬆️➡️↙️↘️⬇️↖️↘️↔️🔄↕️↘️↖️↘️↩️↕️↘️↕️↗️↘️⤴️↕️ I felt that

no 16th grey box with japanese that encodes a secret message. unfaithful, 0/10 ok but in all seriousness, this is incredible. i can't even begin to think of how this works, much less how you _pulled it off._ amazing work -Hyper

when the purple window said "☎, 💬📞📲💻🤙📺📲🔉📨📱🔊↘, ❌, ❎, ❌, ❎, ❌" i felt that, it was truly amazing and inspirational.

this screams incredibox and that is great

this is some of the coolest shit I've ever seen.

The 9th one is fire EASPAKIATAHTUAH TUH TUH🔥🗣️

Everyone is deserved to watch this vid. It’s just a masterpiece. If this was an app i will be the first one downloading it

i've no idea why i've just been recommended this but this is impressive, well done

me when the windows are tapped

When the purple window said “do not hang up” I feel that in places I shouldn’t

hehehehe no way side order

The purple window and the turquoise window are the best frfr

Didn't expect I'd see a frums fan video here.

this is what happens when you go somewhere and leave your computer on.

Ok, my last 14 braincells when im in a test:

beautiful seriously this is amazing!

I love this.

color chips

my body after eating a funny mushroom that i found in a forest

Ah i see you are a Frums enjoyer as well

1:30 actually hit so hard, everything about this is awesome from the graphics to the coding to the music

it's insane that M_rld made 15 different programs just for this video...

he truly is a silly billy

Frums needs to see this

this video my beloved wavetapper my beloved frums my beloved

Sick

this is my brain in public

funny story: m_rld was gonna have the video be uploaded yesterday, but due to encoding being dumb and slow, it wasn't working

i can literally fall asleep to this anytime, no problem. its literally melatonin in audio form. fantastical work. i need more music in this style!

(scrolling down the comments) me: haha undertale mention ^_^ (scrolling more) me: haha splatoon mention ^_^ video games when the erm. funny colors

the last window do be sayin ↠↮人*´∀｡ﾟ+

man if only it was on spotify i'd listen to this all the time

Now i wanna learn programming more than ever and make window tapper megalomania

truly banger effects!

this would be really cool malware, listening to a banger as you lose access to your computer

Of course

My brain every time I think of something: This video

imagine if someone made a program just for this

me at first: this kinda reminds me of frums me after: OH WAIT IT IS FRUMS

this is super cool! i think you should release the code so other people can learn from it

Truer words have never been heard before, until now

This is incredible!

its giving the mandela catalogue tbh

thankyou RU-vid for showing me this masterpiece

this is just epic, god

My pillow's heartbeat made this way better 🔥

Window

I’m in a trance rn I can’t take my eyes off the colors and sounds on the screen this is beautiful

No grey window 7/10 But hey great work!

When I heard one sound and realized everything that would happen on the screen. The author of the video is a genius.

this is awesome

This is actually so cool

i laughed so hard when the purple one said "📞📞📞📞📞📞📞📞 ↘ XXXXXXX"

Ok this is actually impressive

The one person in class singing their soul out be like:

hexagonhexagon is you

I really like the phone noises in this.

My God that's impressive

The workaround for the multi executable thing is something i should've thought of but i still find it clever

Incredibox on Windows?

Wow, something that's neither Parabox nor Baba

Would you be willing to post the source code for this? I'm really interested in figuring out how this works

This virus can take my computer if it’s gonna play this banger 💀💀💀💀☠️☠️☠️☠️

My brain during a test:

Incredibox be like:

The virus slowly spreading across my computer when I tried to pirate a movie:

Incrediwindows