Multiple computers, same Steam account?

[Durghan]

Hey all, just tried setting up WE on my work computer and it's saying that it's going to disconnect my home computer. Without creating a whole new steam account, is there a way to use WE on both computers at once? And since we're on it, can I use my profiles I set up at home, on my work computer?

[Biohazard]

It should be fine as long as you closed the wallpaper browser, because the background application, which displays the wallpapers, doesn't connect to Steam.

However Steam might latch onto it by itself anyway. You can avoid that by using the auto start function of Wallpaper Engine or starting it from your own shortcut (a shortcut to wallpaper32.exe in its installation directory) just avoid launching it through Steam to make sure Steam doesn't keep track of it.

The settings need to be transferred manually. We might add Steam cloud as a feature at some point, but it's pretty confusing because we can't just make everything dependent on Steam. We also need to consider the Windows user account and absolute installation directory and this makes it impossible to just use it automatically, it needs to be specifically configured and managed by everyone then anyway.

[Durghan]

Originally posted by Biohazard:

It should be fine as long as you closed the wallpaper browser, because the background application, which displays the wallpapers, doesn't connect to Steam.

However Steam might latch onto it by itself anyway. You can avoid that by using the auto start function of Wallpaper Engine or starting it from your own shortcut (a shortcut to wallpaper32.exe in its installation directory) just avoid launching it through Steam to make sure Steam doesn't keep track of it.

The settings need to be transferred manually. We might add Steam cloud as a feature at some point, but it's pretty confusing because we can't just make everything dependent on Steam. We also need to consider the Windows user account and absolute installation directory and this makes it impossible to just use it automatically, it needs to be specifically configured and managed by everyone then anyway.

That's good info, thanks!

I'd be fine with simply having an easy way to access the config files if simply copying them from my home computer to my work computer would work. The way saving and loading works in WE is a bit frustrating in that I can never actually see the files I'm making or loading like I can in normal Windows dialogs.

[Biohazard]

The "config" is saved as config,json in the installation directory and it contains all settings for all Windows users. So it's independent from the Steam account but dependent on the Windows accounts and installation directory. It's simply a text file so advanced users can edit it directly and go beyond what the program can do (i.e. transferring settings between different Windows accounts or restoring it from a backup if you had a power failure at your home and the hard drive messed it up) but generally it's not necessary to do anything to this file.

In the editor you can access your project by opening the edit menu and clicking "open in explorer". A scene wallpaper project consists of countless files (depending on the size of it anyway) so that's why you cannot save or a load a single file here.

[Durghan]

Ah, I see. So, I spent a bunch of time last night sorting images and stuff in to folders...If I wanted to duplicate that folder structure at work, is there an easy set of files to copy over? Or do I have to just treat my work setup as a totally different entity?