Hey all,
A new patch for Wallpaper Engine has been released that improves support for translations and fixes a few new issues that have been occuring. The UI should not be freezing anymore on some PCs and the monitor order is now based on the screen position and not what Windows reports (since a reliable report from Windows doesn't seem possible).
Three new image effects have been added as well which you can see here:
The paint tool has been reimplemented on the GPU and should now perform better on large images or with a large brush size. The flow map brush has support for two additional paint modes now, pinch and spread. These can be used with the "water flow" or "shake" effect to animate circular flow or breathing effects on the image.
In order to provide some indication about performance, you now have the option to show a stats overlay with various rendering information about scenes. While there is no rule of thumb which values should be considered 'too high', you can get an idea about how effects or images affect performance this way.
Properties in the project.json file can now be translated, I added new instructions for this to the property guide:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=785994149
The next patch will introduce tools to the editor to create and edit particle effects for the wallpaper, like the snow and light ray presets that exist already.
Full changelog
Additions
- Added image effects: god rays, film grain, clouds.
- Added rendering statistics to scenes.
- Made it possible to add translations to properties in project.json.
- Made it possible to translate effects/properties etc in the editor.
- Integrated pending translation updates.
- Added hardware acceleration to paint brush tool.
- Added spread/pinch brush for flow maps.
- Added friction property to shake effect.
- Added support for more image preview types in the editor (png, gif).
Fixes
- Fixed UI dead locking while creating the window.
- Attempted to fix a crash when video wallpapers are closed.
- Fixed properties in editor showing duplicates or not updating sometimes.
Misc
- Removed all flags from language list.
- Updated crash messages of third-party tools that hack into Wallpaper Engine.
- Changed monitor order to be based on position.