Wallpaper Engine

Hey everyone,

I thought this might be of interest:

It is currently on Steam Greenlight and could use some upvotes

Wallpaper Engine allows you to have stunning animated 3D scenes as wallpapers on your Windows PC. You will be able to create your own or download them from Steam Workshop. Everyone can create wallpapers, you don’t have to be a 3D modeler or game developer, but having these extra skills will allow you to make your wallpapers more unique and amazing!

Features

• Create wallpapers by importing images and models.
• Build wallpapers using HTML5, JavaScript and WebGL.
• Export your Unity or UE4 projects as WebGL and use them as a wallpaper.
• Share your creations on Steam Workshop. Either for free or at a price of your choice.
• Save power and performance by pausing or unloading your wallpaper when, for example, another application becomes full screen or is maximized.
• Select different wallpapers for each monitor or lay out a single one across them.
• Portable app, no installation required.
• Will also run without Steam and not show that you are ‘in-game’ on Steam friends.

So if you like what you see, please drop by and show your support by up voting

 

Now that's really darn cool! You got a vote from me

 

Thanks!

Mucho apprecio!

 

Just a quick update, the Steam store page is now live and release is scheduled for this October!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/431960/

 

Absolutely love it! Added to my wishlist, can't wait to have it, really! The music features is superb

 

Wallpaper Engine is now released into Early Access!!!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/431960/
It costs $4, you can turn your Unity projects into desktop wallpapers and share on the workshop or even monetize and sell them.

Here's the EA release trailer:

Here's an example of Unity used to create a live wallpaper:

 

Is there a location i can learn to make these live backgrounds? I'm struggling to find any reference and tutorials from scratch

 

That's so cool dude.

 

I'm here for the same reason NeonRabbit is, I'm struggling to find tutorials on how to create live backgrounds using unity. I'd like to add particle effects and so on to images and videos but have no idea how to do this and get it into Wallpaper Engine. Anyone know any resources for this?

 

Unity's official learning section has tutorials. You'll want to go through the Interface & Essentials section to get a grasp on how to use Unity. After that you can cherry pick from the Topics section based on your immediate needs.

https://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials
https://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/topics/interface-essentials

The Live Training section has some very useful videos too.

https://unity3d.com/learn/live-training

 

But is there anything specific for Wallpaper Engine itself? Any special settings etc? Also some documentation or even just sample code for applications from scratch (Java, C++ etc) would be cool too.

 

Pretty nothing, Wallpaper Engine is using the same system that Chrome uses so standard Unity WebGL should work.

 

when in MAC?

 

Wallpaper Engine - Hey folks, was this just false advertising that you could make wallpaper engine scene using Unity? Is there some easy way like a project template? That is the reason I bought it on steam, to make interesting AI 3D animation wallpaper. But haven't found how yet.

 

No, it wasn't just false advertising. Wallpaper Engine can accept applications as one of the formats and you can create them with many different programs like Unity.

I'm not aware of anything but then I haven't looked into it for more than a few minutes out of boredom. If I wanted to make my own wallpapers I would go a different route but that's just because I would want to understand how it all works rather than just use it.

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/integration/rainity-dynamic-wallpapers-127504