Yeah, this has been having trouble as wallpaper engine has been updating. Unfortunately I don't have the time to update this anymore as I have moved on to other projects

seems like this is either bugged or doesn't work atm with the recent updates to wallpaper engine. i can't seem get it to work. :/

This isn't really a project I actively develop. When it was made, it was a limitation of Wallpaper Engine. I assume that will continue to be the case.

do you think that will ever be a thing? I really want both to play at the same time would be super cool

Unfortunately, no

Anyway to get the visuals from a chosen wallpaper to play along with the visualizer playing?

holly fuck thats clever. (Nice [idk which coin] silent miner)

Afaik random crashes are related to being injected into WPE. Haven't had problems when testing code externally

so far my experience with your vizualizer has been the greatest. pretty consistant and very comparable to the official monstercat vizualizer. aside from a few random crashes every few weeks(probably has to do with wallpaper engine idk) this is the greatest visualizer for wallpaper engine.

If there is a compatibility issue with Rainmeter, that would be something to discuss with the creator of WPE in the discussions section of the community page.

Not that I know of. I have noticed the same issue occurring here, namely the wallpaper will not start up. I don't know the root of this issue, I assume it is internal to WPE. I have been able to solve it by doing some combination of these 3 things (different every time but always works eventually): 1) Restart Wallpaper Engine. 2) Change your wallpaper to a different wallpaper and then back. 3) Click your current configuration in the "Recent Wallpapers" menu item in the wallpaper engine popup from the taskbar. This 3rd option has been the most effective but it often requires several attempts.

Another known issue is that the Transparent background setting sometimes causes the screen to go black. This an issue with Wallpaper Engine.

If I find a solution to any of these issues the wallpaper will be updated accordingly

I was just trying to say that in the event that the error was in some way related to my problem. My problem being whenever I try to open it, it freezes whatever the previous wallpaper was, and it doesn't unfreeze or show anything until I pick a different wallpaper. I can't seem to find any cause for this either; I've refreshed my settings, unsubbed and resubbed a number of times, and I have not seen any change. I'm also running Rainmeter, I suppose I could have mentioned that. Does Rainmeter have any compatability issues that you know of?

Yeah, since this wallpaper is an executable file, wallpaper engine just likes to warn you that it might be malware. Just a CYA thing I suppose. I can assure you, this wallpaper isn't intended to harm your computer. It's a project that I put a lot of time into and I personally have it set as my wallpaper.

vvv

I get this message as well, but there's no cause for alarm. It's just annoying that it pops up often is all.

Hello, me again. I suppose I should mention, I get a warning message that reads something to the tune of: "You are about to open an external application as a wallpaper: [the location in system files]. Wallpaper Engine has no control over this file, you must ensure it comes from a reliable source before proceeding." Any clue as to why it might be saying that?

New update! Now you can save and load settings to files other than the default save used for the app. This lets you keep multiple files so you can switch between them at will.

Hi, I really want to use your visualizer app, but every time I try to use it, my previous background simply pauses with no sign of your visualizer starting up. I tried resetting the settings, but nothing changed.

This still has the best visualization I've seen on the workshop. someone should attempt to make a trap nation visualizer with this method ^^

Can't think of any reason why that would be. Maybe your wallpaper settings are somehow corrupted. If you open the settings window from the system tray you may be able to resolve.

When I try and use it is just a black background with nothing on it, any ideas? Ty

New update out now! I finally got a second monitor. I've figured out how to display the wallpaper properly on multiple monitors and I have made a first pass at positioning options. For now, the positioning options confine the visualizer to its own monitor. I am currently unsure of whether I want this to be the final functionality of positioning, so please let me know your thoughts.

Stretched doesn't work either. Perhaps if you can get it it work with stretched, and implement x and y position, we could place it on the second monitor manually?

Yeah, I have that problem too. I'd try to fix it but honestly idk how. I think it may be a wallpaper engine problem.

The visualizer won't appear on my second monitor, only on my primary one

There will be an icon down in your system tray (bottom-right corner of the taskbar) that you can click to bring up a settings menu for this wallpaper.

My apologies, I'm not very fluent in this kind of talk. I've only used wallpaper engine for a day now and don't really know anything about tech/coding w/e, could you enlighten me on how to do this?

Yes, the A value on the color control adjusts transparency

Is there a way to adjust transparency on the visualizer to "blend in" with the background? If not, are there plans to add in such setting? I'd love to see this. Awesome job by the way!

Tried a couple things and couldn't reproduce the bug. Things to try:

-Make sure you're hitting 'yes' when exiting the settings window
-Restart the wallpaper. If that fails, restart wallpaper engine.
-If none of that works, navigate to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\431960\915899815 and send me the contents of your ".settings" file. I won't say you can't edit that file, but be warned that it could stop the wallpaper from being able to run if you do anything you shouldn't.

The only thing I did was trying to change it to another value and set a gif background.

And to follow up, do you remember what you did before this happened, or did it just stop working?

That's weird. Send screenshots my way and I'll try to address the problem.

Sweet to see you working on it! But.... I kinda managed to screw it over.... after setting width/height it somehow does not respect the dots i put. even when i set it to default the dots are ignored and it will just be 50 and 45 on default. So everything will be displayed huge.not even re-enabling works.

New update! The visualizer's size is now customizable in terms of either pixels or percentage of your screen! I'm working on a system to change positioning, so stay tuned for that. Also, you can now add a custom background! The settings window supports transparent background, similar previous versions, the default windows background image, and custom choosable, including animated gifs.

Good Job man! Nice update, Im so hyped for the new update. Keep Up The Good Work!!!!!!!

For those who care, the bug fix has been released. The tray icon functions properly even when the wallpaper is paused.

Doesn't work tried over and over, tried converting to .gif for use in another visualiser but the quality pooped

Refl3x WPE would need to deliberately add support. However there is currently a bug/feature where it can be overlaid over a video wallpaper. Simply set the video as your wallpaper, then set this is your wallpaper. The video will keep playing with this wallpaper overtop

I'd love to have this overlaid another animated wallpaper. Any way to cause that to happen? Or would WPE deliberately need to add support for it?

I'm aware of the new bug where the system tray icon is nonfunctional while the program is paused. I will work on a fix, and if I can't get it working within a few days I will revert to the previous build.

New update - nothing super exciting, but for anyone who cares, I've fixed some issues the wallpaper had integrating with WPE. It should now properly pause/close when WPE tells it to.

It's a bug, but I'm selling it as a feature XD

The way the transparent background works with WPE isn't ideal but it has some interesting ramifications so it will be staying in the code.

For some reason, I now can play other video wallpapers along with the visualizer. Not sure if it was supposed to or not..

I have plans to work on a setting for custom backgrounds. I will be implementing transparent (what we have currently) and static image for sure, possibly animated gifs depending on if my current technologies support it and/or how difficult it would be to implement. It is something I intend to look into as I fix other issues.

I'd actually like seing this with the monstercat unchained background animation :)

NIce! Any chance for some glow or some gif/webm implementation later on?

New update! Added an icon in the system tray with color options and the ability to manually pause/unpause the wallpaper. Also made an attempt at fixing some math for multiple monitors.

Not that I'm aware of. I have no ability to know when wallpaper engine is telling it to pause so I have no way to manually control it.

Sadly it doesn't pause when it's told to by wallpaper engine. Is there any fix?

https://gyazo.com/9843cdac8b507cd9e3642a293881e19c - dual monitor view
https://gyazo.com/97d71c58a5a5c950c05062fe0fedcead - my right monitor when i ran it single monitor style