Wallpaper Engine

Wallpaper Engine

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Type: Web
Age Rating: Everyone
Genre: Abstract
Resolution: Dynamic resolution
Category: Wallpaper
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1.258 MB
Feb 11, 2017 @ 11:41am
Oct 13, 2018 @ 11:17am
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Rainbow Rings

Description
Colorful rings reacting to audio.

Options
  • 2 rings, one with all frequencies, 1 with just low frequencies. Either can be turned off by reducing radius to 0.
  • Clock options
  • Background Image & Slideshow
  • Glowing


Tips
  • Adjust CPU core count for a more accurate cpu usage estimate. ( though it does remain just an estimate )
  • Turn on glowing for a more vibrant wallpaper. Off by default to lower default cpu usage.

Yin Yang image used in one example: http://imgur.com/mr9Er

Settings for the example with the center "flower":
- I just decreased "radius 2" to close to 2,
- and raised height and height 2 to nearly max.

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Updates
  • Added 3 different additional effects. As I ended up just constantly tweaking I decided to put them up for public scrutiny and get some feedback :) Still have some settings planned but also need to see if I can improve the "bass" responsive ones.
  • Line Shifting effect. Based on bass volume it will split the lines apart.
  • Scale effect. Based on bass volume it will enlarge the circle
  • Particle effects. Just spawns some colorful particles based on where there is a peak.
  • Will try to focus on color customization next while I get some feedback on this
  • Added basic custom color option starting with 2 colors. Will be adding more color options later
  • I added in a debug graph that I was using for some tweaking in case someone is curious why the bass behaves like it does. This way I don't have to comment in the code anymore either..
  • Tweak bass response a bit more. Seems to work better with some rougher or faster things now.
  • Particles can now go only outward, only inward or both.
  • Can lower the randomness of particles aligning them.
  • Can reposition time and ring 2 ( bass ). Main positioning will be used for inner/first/all frequency ring.
  • Added way to hide rings. As a result the "Animate when Silent" options is renamed to "When Silent". Your old settings should be preserved.
  • Added analog clock version with hour markers.
  • Added Reverse frequency range option
  • Unlocked framerate when visuals could benefit from them. Those are bass effects, particles and slideshow transitions.
  • Fixed 2 bugs in the slideshow code
  • Added options to enable/disable individual slideshow transitions.
  • Fixed bug of wallpaper not starting if background image was missing.
  • Fixed bug where black lines/rings would be drawn if you selected "hide rings " for the "when silent" setting as well as not an analog clock.
  • Updated background settings to include video
  • Line shifting & scale can now be enabled/disabled when there is no audio. Default is set to off.
  • Particle spawn options added to spawn on peaks or bass detection
  • Increased maximum particles settings to facilitate the large amount of particles that can be spawned when particles are spawned on bass.
  • Show FPS option included to help tweak performance when using particles.
Popular Discussions View All (5)
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Jan 11, 2020 @ 11:47pm
Suggestions [for WIP features]
Tixx7
1
Jun 3, 2021 @ 4:20am
PLEASE HALP
ExoticDGC
2
Mar 27, 2017 @ 4:50pm
What kind of settings do you like?
PIECEofTOAST
297 Comments
Majorzakyo Nov 30, 2023 @ 5:08am 
Thanks for the help! Was able to get the effect I wanted from editing the index.html file.
Squee  [author] Nov 29, 2023 @ 3:22pm 
I had to have a look as I haven't worked on this in years. To answer the question; no, there is no option to change that black color. And to be honest, I don't think I would be adding the option any time soon though.

However with a bit of work you can configure it to be anything you want and hope that helps. To do so:
- Right click on the wallpaper and select "Open in explorer"
- Then open the index.html file with notepad or some other basic text editor.
- Go to line 15 and you will find "color: black;" You can change the color there.

Examples could be to replace "black" with:
- transparent or red or yellow or white etc ( common colors only )
- #FF00FF ( hex notation)

- rgb( 255, 0, 255 ) ( values are red, green, blue and between 0 and 255 )

- rgba( 255, 0, 255, 0.5 ) ( added alpha which is value between 0 and 1 to make it semi transparent )
Majorzakyo Nov 29, 2023 @ 1:41pm 
Great job! Love this for my second monitor. Sorry if I'm blind, but is there any way to change the color of the clock when using custom color? A different color than the black font with red glow would be better in my case. Thanks!
Theain Mar 10, 2022 @ 1:38am 
amazing
Squee  [author] Jan 15, 2022 @ 8:51am 
@Furr.ix .. If you are using Win 10 version 2004 ( 20h2 ) or higher, you can now use the WE beta or wait for an update. Then under WE settings in the general tab, near the bottom there is an option "Use high-precision times". If you turn that on the 21fps goes back to 30fps as it should with audio data. This affects all audio wallpapers of the type webwallpaper and will increase how often the audio data updates.
Squee  [author] Jan 14, 2022 @ 7:55am 
@Furr.ix just a small update. Seems your and my system are not working as intended as the audio data updates should be near the 30fps. The dev is going to try and help out to find what is going on.
Squee  [author] Jan 12, 2022 @ 8:32am 
@Furr.ix .. It used to be 28fps but for some reason WE only gives back audio data at 21fps now. I can make a post in community asking why that was changed. However as for the lower FPS than 60 see this reply I gave years ago: "The wallpaper might lock to ~28fps which is the rate it receives audio data at from WE and it avoid rendering the same identical visuals twice, but if you have enabled effects that would visually benefit from higher frame rates ( like particles ) it will go higher."
Furrix Jan 11, 2022 @ 8:23pm 
for some reason i cant seem to get it to run above 21 fps, even though i have it set for 60 fps in my settings and lowering the quality it doesn't change. weirder is that if i turn on particles fps displays a higher fps but its still runs at 21. it used to work fine, maybe its because i changed monitors? i was using a crt but i changed it for a more modern one
Squee  [author] Nov 28, 2021 @ 5:53pm 
@Rulet: Android app only support scene and video wallpapers but not web wallpapers like this one.

google translate: Приложение Android поддерживает только сцены и видеообои, но не веб-обои, подобные этому.