Microsoft introduces the new Windows 10 wallpaper named "Hero"
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[QUOTE=maxumym;48071538]Does Windows even natively support animated backgrounds?[/QUOTE]
Vista Ultimate through DreamScene. Steven Sinofsky killed it off partially in 7 but it's hackable in, who the hell knows about 8/8.1/10 though with DWM being so much more tightly controlled (and apparently if you kill Explorer in them, you lose your wallpaper too unlike all the other previous versions).
[QUOTE=wickedplayer494;48074225]Vista Ultimate through DreamScene. Steven Sinofsky killed it off partially in 7 but it's hackable in, who the hell knows about 8/8.1/10 though with DWM being so much more tightly controlled (and apparently if you kill Explorer in them, you lose your wallpaper too unlike all the other previous versions).[/QUOTE]
Why not just use this?
[url]http://www.stardock.com/products/deskscapes/[/url]
[QUOTE=paul simon;48072957][thumb]http://puu.sh/iG2ej.jpg[/thumb]
How about an updated 4K "bliss" :v:[/QUOTE]
[t]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9ki0EM_Yrm4/UUwMJE2UkmI/AAAAAAAAAKA/zx89HzMNmtA/s0-d/Bliss-bliss-5333x4000.jpg[/t]
Why update?
[QUOTE=maxumym;48071538]Does Windows even natively support animated backgrounds?[/QUOTE]
Sort of. There's a small program you can download that'll do it for you. At least on Windows 7. Pretty sure it's just unlocking/implementing a feature that was in Vista or some shit. It's quite nice having a background of rain
[QUOTE=Anti Christ;48071648]while its cool and all that video is pretentious as fuck[/QUOTE]
What was pretentious about it? It was basically just "We hired this really good designer" "Hey I'm the really good designer" "We're making this cool-ass shit with glass and a bunch of computer-controlled lights" "Here's the picture"
So much cynicism surrounding this, for some reason.
In my opinion it looks awesome.
[QUOTE=Eric95;48075174]What was pretentious about it? It was basically just "We hired this really good designer" "Hey I'm the really good designer" "We're making this cool-ass shit with glass and a bunch of computer-controlled lights" "Here's the picture"[/QUOTE]
I remembered it being pretty pretencious but I couldn't remember a specific line, so I clicked to a random part.
[QUOTE]Microsoft has been really open to us taking it into a very vibrant, experamental direction; a whole new look than we've seen from Windows before, and that's been really exciting.[/QUOTE]
It's a default wallpaper. They're building it up like it's a whole new way to use Windows, like they're introducing something as big as Hololens.
[QUOTE=LegndNikko;48075861]I remembered it being pretty pretencious but I couldn't remember a specific line, so I clicked to a random part.
It's a default wallpaper. They're building it up like it's a whole new way to use Windows, like they're introducing something as big as Hololens.[/QUOTE]
Consider how crazily iconic Bliss was, and how iconic even some other default Windows wallpapers have become, and you'll realize why they put so much effort into it.
I honestly don't know why people want animated backgrounds. It sounds incredibly distracting, the way it'll make icons and text and such read. And if you go with something super subtle, why bother? If you're sitting on your desktop starring actively at the background for long enough to enjoy it you need to find a better use of your time.
If its for when you're away, that's what screen savers are for.
Can someone give me a good and rationale reason for this feature to be added? It not like they can't do it, it's just clearly not a priority.
Android has live wallpapers just fine. It'd be nice for Windows to have a conkyesque live wallpaper.
[editline]28th June 2015[/editline]
Or htop
[QUOTE=LegndNikko;48075861]It's a default wallpaper. They're building it up like it's a whole new way to use Windows, like they're introducing something as big as Hololens.[/QUOTE]
Many people never change that default wallpaper, and it generally becomes a big part of the OS's visual identity, featured in promotional material, packaging, and pretty much whatever else is related to it. It may seem silly and inconsequential, but it's actually the biggest visual impression the OS can make; the visual thumbprint in how people will see it in their minds next to their thoughts of other OSes.
For example: Mac OS X. Familiar with using it around the (Snow) Leopard era, when Apple was [i]really[/i] popular at the time, the iPod riding high and the iPhone just taking off? If so, I imagine a purple starfield just popped up in your mind just now when I mentioned it. Pre-Leopard OS X - say, Tiger-era: a matte blue slate.
What about Windows? XP. Field of grass. Vista. Teal and yellow sunbeams. 7. Blue with green leaves and the Aero-era Windows logo in the center. I don't even need to describe this to anyone more than passingly familiar with any of these systems. You can see it in your head as soon as you first think of the OS; it's an instinctual familiarity.
Plus it's neat for us graphics types to see how each new version gives us a brand new piece of artwork with its own name and creative effort put into it; it's a fun little side thing like Google Doodles.
[QUOTE=Socram;48076675]I honestly don't know why people want animated backgrounds. It sounds incredibly distracting, the way it'll make icons and text and such read. And if you go with something super subtle, why bother? If you're sitting on your desktop starring actively at the background for long enough to enjoy it you need to find a better use of your time.
If its for when you're away, that's what screen savers are for.
Can someone give me a good and rationale reason for this feature to be added? It not like they can't do it, it's just clearly not a priority.[/QUOTE]
It's pretty, and consoles and phones can do it.
[QUOTE=Velocet;48074569]Why not just use this?
[url]http://www.stardock.com/products/deskscapes/[/url][/QUOTE]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/Cknx4CC.png[/img]
Why the fuck should I have to pay additional money to some 3rd party? Hell, before Classic Shell, why the fuck should I have to pay money to some 3rd party just to get the Win7 start menu back in Win8?
Because it's finally acceptable for small devs to get some money for their work? I don't get the whole issue with this, although I think donations are always a better choice. I always donate to something I use frequently.
[QUOTE=Socram;48076675]I honestly don't know why people want animated backgrounds. It sounds incredibly distracting, the way it'll make icons and text and such read. And if you go with something super subtle, why bother? If you're sitting on your desktop starring actively at the background for long enough to enjoy it you need to find a better use of your time.
If its for when you're away, that's what screen savers are for.
Can someone give me a good and rationale reason for this feature to be added? It not like they can't do it, it's just clearly not a priority.[/QUOTE]
I have no icons and therefore cannot struggle to read them. Everything I need is either in steam, pinned to the start menu or I can just type the file name in the search box.
[QUOTE=Mkt778;48078012]My friend did an interesting thing with multiple desktop frames and setting the change for them to be the lowest possible (5 seconds)
It was the same image, but it had a single element on it that was another color. It would cycle colors randomly, basically. I imagine you could do neat things with this by making a really painterly backdrop and have fog randomly loop frames.
Or like a landscape that changes the color of the sky on an hourly basis so it goes through a day and night cycle. You would probably never notice the fade but each time you look at your desktop, it would be a different frame.[/QUOTE]
I did that once with a doctored KSP screenshot. Made it look like the lights on a space station were all blinking.
It works to an extent, but I'd still rather just have native support for webm backgrounds or something.
[QUOTE=Anti Christ;48071648]while its cool and all that video is pretentious as fuck[/QUOTE]
reminds me of this
[video=vimeo;115733204]https://vimeo.com/115733204[/video]
Look at the "Bliss" hill today how it changed. Also the guy is the original photographer that took the pic in 1996.
[img]http://www.pressdemocrat.com/csp/mediapool/sites/dt.common.streams.StreamServer.cls?STREAMOID=1l88rRZdHZgoiUFMHG6ngM$daE2N3K4ZzOUsqbU5sYtoTXHuHQH5p9IsYYZhAEtUWCsjLu883Ygn4B49Lvm9bPe2QeMKQdVeZmXF$9l$4uCZ8QDXhaHEp3rvzXRJFdy0KqPHLoMevcTLo3h8xh70Y6N_U_CryOsw6FTOdKL_jpQ-&CONTENTTYPE=image/jpeg[/img]
[QUOTE=maxolina;48078226]Look at the "Bliss" hill today how it changed. Also the guy is the original photographer that took the pic in 1996.
[img]http://www.pressdemocrat.com/csp/mediapool/sites/dt.common.streams.StreamServer.cls?STREAMOID=1l88rRZdHZgoiUFMHG6ngM$daE2N3K4ZzOUsqbU5sYtoTXHuHQH5p9IsYYZhAEtUWCsjLu883Ygn4B49Lvm9bPe2QeMKQdVeZmXF$9l$4uCZ8QDXhaHEp3rvzXRJFdy0KqPHLoMevcTLo3h8xh70Y6N_U_CryOsw6FTOdKL_jpQ-&CONTENTTYPE=image/jpeg[/img][/QUOTE]
I believe that Bliss is farmland nowadays. There's another picture floating around of "what Bliss looks like today" that has it predominantly yellow with what I think was wheat in bloom. Whole bunch of people who saw it were upset at how much it seems to have "decayed", not realizing that those were crops, not dead grass.
[b]EDIT:[/b] Grapevines, not wheat.
[QUOTE=Anti Christ;48071648]while its cool and all that video is pretentious as fuck[/QUOTE]
What, you don't like listening to strangers with no weight attached to their name verbally felate a different stranger with no weight attached to his name?
[QUOTE=VinLAURiA;48077059]Many people never change that default wallpaper, and it generally becomes a big part of the OS's visual identity, featured in promotional material, packaging, and pretty much whatever else is related to it. It may seem silly and inconsequential, but it's actually the biggest visual impression the OS can make; the visual thumbprint in how people will see it in their minds next to their thoughts of other OSes.
For example: Mac OS X. Familiar with using it around the (Snow) Leopard era, when Apple was [i]really[/i] popular at the time, the iPod riding high and the iPhone just taking off? If so, I imagine a purple starfield just popped up in your mind just now when I mentioned it. Pre-Leopard OS X - say, Tiger-era: a matte blue slate.
What about Windows? XP. Field of grass. Vista. Teal and yellow sunbeams. 7. Blue with green leaves and the Aero-era Windows logo in the center. I don't even need to describe this to anyone more than passingly familiar with any of these systems. You can see it in your head as soon as you first think of the OS; it's an instinctual familiarity.
Plus it's neat for us graphics types to see how each new version gives us a brand new piece of artwork with its own name and creative effort put into it; it's a fun little side thing like Google Doodles.[/QUOTE]
I've never seen someone with an iPhone not have the default wallpaper for iOS.
[QUOTE=Fat White Lump;48084044]I've never seen someone with an iPhone not have the default wallpaper for iOS.[/QUOTE]
Then you either haven't seen many people with iPhones or you are surrounded exclusively by rich housewives that are 50+ y/o.
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;48071550]No, and to my understanding windows 10 hasn't added any support for it which is shit because I would love to have that as a live wallpaper[/QUOTE]
UHM, I have a moving gif as my background and I'm using windows 7.
You're factually wrong.
[QUOTE=FingerSpazem;48085499]UHM, I have a moving gif as my background and I'm using windows 7.
You're factually wrong.[/QUOTE]
how
I tried installing dreamscene on my windows 10 VM and it didn't work. Sad days.
Just downloaded and installed Windows 10. It's neat, but I wish the Photos app had more options and wasn't just a dumb app that throws the contents of all associated folders and the folders within those folders in a directory out into date-sorting. And by more options I mean options period. The Photos app has no options. A lot of people are going to have their taste in pornography made public by that app.
So how do I download and install Win10? I did the 'Get Windows 10' thingy but it just disappeared as I was to hover over it today. Son of a bitch.
[QUOTE=Flumbooze;48085565]So how do I download and install Win10? I did the 'Get Windows 10' thingy but it just disappeared as I was to hover over it today. Son of a bitch.[/QUOTE]
You can follow the guidelines here: [url=http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-win_upgrade/i-want-to-reserve-my-free-copy-of-windows-10-but-i/848b5cce-958b-49ae-a132-a999a883265b]http://answers.microsoft.com/..[/url]
[QUOTE=SebiWarrior;48085509]how[/QUOTE]
Find gif
right click
save and make desktop background
It worked on windows xp
it actually works on windows xp better than anything else
apparantly windows 7 requires a microsoft-made software thing that I didn't even know I had
It works natively for windows xp though lmao 2001 is the future
[QUOTE=Nak;48085667]You can follow the guidelines here: [url=http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-win_upgrade/i-want-to-reserve-my-free-copy-of-windows-10-but-i/848b5cce-958b-49ae-a132-a999a883265b]http://answers.microsoft.com/..[/url][/QUOTE]
Well yeah I reserved Windows 10 before, it says it is reserved but it doesn't update/download/install anything.
[editline]t[/editline] I'm an idiot, July isn't June.
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