You may have to get a free or shareware software that can make
frame-by-frame animations and perhaps convert them to a suitable
format so thay can run in the computer using the System Preference
option for animated files, which may work OK in some Macs with
OS X 10.4.11 or higher, and enough system resources to do this.
{Some potential software for this task exists out there, though some
of that does not support the newer Intel® Macs; others probably do.
A preliminary search gives me some ideas on this topic; and after
a few more, to narrow or redirect the search results, I think you may
be able to find something in the way of animated image making to
build a file to run on the desktop; the actual screensaver is one thing
& in some other Macs, you can have the background also animated.}
I'm not sure which freeware can do this; there also may be a way to
run a file generated to be a web page, but for me that is an unknown.
I see it is possible to make or edit some frame by frame; but, not
sure if the results are viable in your project, with ToyViewer. There
may be a way to see how those animations work which come with
the Mac OS and copy their construction. They have stuff that moves
across the screen; icons and stuff. Perhaps their code is available?
The one already in the system will show your computer's name.
One trippy item is the 'RSS Visualizer 'in Screen Saver; it appears
to pull content off the web and has floating text for a desktop. I can
also see that would be tiresome in short order; and with a slow ISP
the content may be very annoyingly slow or incomplete.
There should be a way to make content that this built-in screen
saver viewer can utilize, and if you can make it, the software in
Desktop & Screen Saver control panel may be able to show it.
There is a logo and computer name one in there, in the list; so
you may be able to reverse engineer something from that...(?)
Good luck & happy computing! 🙂
