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this patch makes it possible to create custom wallpaper playback rules per application and adds more effects to the editor.
Application Rules
You can now define custom playback behavior for any specific application in various situations. These take priority over the automatic maximized/fullscreen/audio rules.
For example, if you want to use 'Stop' for fullscreen games, but not for your browser, you may add a rule for your browser to make Wallpaper Engine keep playing the wallpapers while your browser is fullscreen, but otherwise stop them while playing:
You can also register screen recording programs to ignore them in Wallpaper Engine's audio detection. This allows you for example to keep Nvidia Instant Replay enabled on the desktop but also let Wallpaper Engine properly mute automatically while other applications are playing audio:
New Effects and Options
The 2D editor has a new multi gizmo that combines position, rotation and size of an object into one and it's now possible to edit particle control points directly on the wallpaper:
Four new effects have been added as well:
Lightning discharge example: https://streamable.com/ofhq2
There is also a new 'playback rate' option on the right for each particle. This allows you to slow down the rate at which the entire particle is simulated just like in the wallpaper browser:
Wallpaper Browser
Each wallpaper that has parallax allows enabling and disabling the mouse parallax effect now:
Next Patches
The next big content patch will bring a number of playlist features, you can check them out on the roadmap already. This should include time based playlists, probably one of the most requested features right now.
Full changelog
Additions
- Added application rules.
- Added particle emitter option to only emit one particle max per frame.
- Made playlist automatically skip missing wallpapers instead of showing an empty screen.
- Added option to choose whether wallpapers should unpause during Aero Peek/alt tab.
- Added focus per monitor option as the new default pause for focus (to be consistent with everything else).
- Added more preset effects.
- Added playback rate particle instance option.
- Added control point gizmo and option to particle instances.
- Added a multi gizmo as a new default 2D gizmo.
- Added mouse parallax option to browser for wallpapers with mouse parallax.
Fixes
- Fixed web wallpaper pseudo random generator not being seeded.
- Fixed sprite sheet frame multiplier not being normalized on dx9/ogl.
- Fixed scene wallpapers jumping in time when unpausing.
- Fixed property presets overwriting meta information of properties (i.e. breaks image loading).
- Fixed CEF shutdown freeze when any blocking Windows function is used at a similar time (i.e. editor preview visibility changes).
- Fixed pagination when text filter is used.
- Fixed partial translations resetting selected language when loaded too early with a workaround.
- Potentially fixed a wallpaper resize issue when size changes are triggered too quickly and Windows starts blocking.
- Fixed filter warning not showing up for approved/audio responsive.
- Fixed fade window not joining the desktop icons correctly on some multi monitor configurations.
- Fixed unsub on Workshop tabs also deselecting the wallpaper.
- Fixed sound with 'loop' option only playing one sound forever instead of all sounds that were added.
Misc
- Trying to update Boost Filesystem again without wreaking Havoc through exceptions.
- Changed tray icon to use the win7 icon on win10 because it is otherwise invisible in the task manager.
- Changed both Discover and Workshop tabs to show a popover since both are important and new users should see them.