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Lands Unknown
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Miscellaneous: Audio responsive, Customizable, HDR, Video Texture
Type: Scene
Age Rating: Everyone
Genre: CGI
Resolution: 2560 x 1440
Category: Wallpaper
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672.885 MB
Apr 10, 2022 @ 6:26am
Apr 2, 2023 @ 8:44am
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Lands Unknown

Description
"Follow these fearless aeronautic explorers travelling through strange, unknown lands in search for a new home."

tl;dr: because of the sheer amount of video- and image textures this wallpaper uses and how Wallpaper Engine handles them, you might experience some lagging for a few seconds shortly after you start or resume the wallpaper after pausing it. In all the tests I did on different machines, the lag should be gone within 1-10 seconds max. Sorry about that but when you come to the point where you use that much video textures this is what happens.

This is my first wallpaper using an excessive combination of image textures for nice emissive lighting stuff that needs to run in sync and video textures to show some nice, long animations that would not be possible with image textures alone.

Enjoy your trip to "Lands Unknown". Safe travels. ^^

Sources I used in the making:
Phoenix Model
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/phoenix-bird-844ba0cf144a413ea92c779f18912042

Peachy Balloon Model
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/peachy-balloon-gift-3c8b73ebbb3748d39994fc87bc945474

Video texture playback controls by Gariam
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2712554235

Frost and rain assets by <blank>
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2475446342
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2446129945
7 Comments
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butcho  [author] Apr 18, 2022 @ 5:20am 
haha...thank you. :happy_yeti::cozybethesda:
Rummas Apr 17, 2022 @ 3:45pm 
Thats crazy! Huge amount of work, I am rly impressed. You are a mad scientist my friend :Medal_Gold:
butcho  [author] Apr 11, 2022 @ 4:00pm 
A little fun fact from the production of this wallpaper. Sometimes you'll see Mars or Jupiter cross the horizon. These two planets are a 2.000 frames animation I created and rendered, which was a way to fast rotation so I blown them up to an 18.000 frames animation in post-render compositing meaning each planet got calculated for about 13-15 hours straight on 100% gpu load until it was finished.

My friends tell me I'm insane, but I call it devotion. :lunar2019laughingpig:

That's mainly the reason I release only two or three wallpapers a year, because it's just such a huge amount of work but highly satisfiying in the end when I see it all come together. I'm pretty much in love with that shit. ^^
butcho  [author] Apr 11, 2022 @ 3:49pm 
Thanks for checking out the wallpaper. :cozybethesda:

Yes, rendering it in real time with all the stuff that's going on is some work for the graphics card. I'm totally into gfx and effects stuff, that's why it has to look that way. I optimized it in the best way possible to my knowledge, playing particle effects and image sequences only when they are visible to the camera for exmaple. But it's still quite demanding. ^^

I can run this on my RTX 2070 at around 40-60 % load depending on what is shown but my GTX 1070 literally begs for mercy when many objects are visible at the same time. :lunar2019laughingpig:
Zuc Apr 11, 2022 @ 2:39pm 
Whoa it looks awesome, looks like a video game with all that effects 😃 tried it a little but my gpu was about to commit seppuku 😫 do you render all that in the background? Nice work! 👏🏻
butcho  [author] Apr 10, 2022 @ 12:45pm 
Thanks for this really nice comment. Glad you like it.

Yeah, this is kind of a wallpaper beast. I tried to reduce some stuff so the gpu doesn't go haywire but found it not that good looking in it's reduced state so I went back to the original version. What should I say, the load on the system is the least of my concerns most of the time when I want to have some fun on the desktop. ;-)

The planets starting point is always random on every start of the wallpaper, and they vary in scrolling speed therefore they tend to overlap from time to time. The downside of randomness I guess.

Thanks for checking out the wallpaper. Safe travels through these unknown lands and thanks again for your video texture script. Without it the outcome of this wallpaper would've been a little different I think. ^^
Gariam Apr 10, 2022 @ 12:00pm 
This is amazing!! You outdid yourself!
It does eat at your GPU like Chrome does with your ram but it's understandable.
I noticed that sometimes the planets overlaps each other, it doesn't seem to be intentional so i'm reporting it.
Anyway keep up the awesome work man!