Hey all,
A new patch for Wallpaper Engine has been released that introduces a new built-in Workshop browser to the existing wallpaper selection window. Using that, you are now able to filter out genres that you are not interested in. All in all it has become easier to try out new wallpapers from Workshop, since you don't need to deal with two separate windows anymore.
The browser also recognizes YouTube previews that have been uploaded by the creator, which you can check out right before subscribing to the wallpaper.
Video wallpapers can now be configured to be aligned in multiple ways. The previous method, "Cover", cropped the wallpaper so that it would always cover your screen, without stretching anything. You can now alternatively set it to "Center", which will add bars to compensate different aspect ratios, or to "Stretch", which stretches the video to the corners of your screen:
This update also introduces a new method of dealing with Steam's auto updates. Coming updates from Steam will be downloaded without overwriting any files used by the running application, which makes it possible to avoid (or reduce) "content locked" errors by Steam. A new update dialog deals with appropriately starting and stopping the application in order to apply pending updates:
For the next update I will start improving the editor features for 2D/3D wallpapers. The 2D features will be extended with various animation effects that you can more easily mix right in the editor. The particle system will also be improved and supported by the UI as well as generally updating options to layer and animate images.
- Kristjan
Full changelog:
New features
- Added video alignment options.
- Implemented in-app Workshop browser with better filtering than the Workshop website has.
- Filter and sort settings are now saved after closing the window.
- Added support for YouTube previews in the browser.
- Custom update dialog to apply updates and verify the installation.
- Added Croatian translation.
- Added a Steamworks warning dialog, shown when trying to use Steam features while Steam is not available.
- Added unsub button to the application warning dialog.
Fixes
- Fixed video resizing issues when the resolution or screen orientation changes.
- Fixed wallpaper restarting when it should be stopped.
- Fixed an issue that lead to crashes when using in-memory video loading.
- Potentially fixed loading of incorrect config when the application starts before the user is fully logged in.
- Fixed a UI shutdown crash (there is still some Chromium render process crashes left though).
- Fixed newly subscribed items to be added to the end of the list.
- Fixed DPI scaling issues in editor (video window too small, 3D stream size mismatching).
- Fixed scheme color control in the publish dialog.
Other changes
- Renamed some playlist options to make them less confusing.
- Changed multi-monitor stretch layout to always use "pause all monitors".