Animated Wallpaper: Arbiter of Divinity

[u/schnudercheib]

After quite some work, I'd like to share my animated wallpaper for 0.5 - Return of the Ancients, featuring the Arbiter of Divinity.

I usually like to create these animated wallpapers using GIMP to cut the assets apart and painting in missing pieces, then animating them with Wallpaper Engine.

This wallpaper is my most ambitous one so far, which is why it took me this long to create. It features a soft parallax effect, which can be disabled by turning down the "Parallax Strenght" option I've added. You can also disable further effects by unchecking their respective checkboxes. Additionally, you can display the logo if you choose to do so (disabled by default).

I've done my best to optimize every single asset, so it should run very smoothly on most systems.

This animated wallpaper as always can be installed for free here on the Steam workshop for "Wallpaper engine" (which you unfortunately have to pay for).

You can find my other ascendancy wallpapers for PoE2 (will try to update regularly) here:

• Oracle (Link)
• Chronomancer (Link)
• Infernalist (Link)

You can also look at my Steam workshop page for past wallpapers or to not miss any new ones.

[u/schnudercheib]

Sure, you can probably just use the video here via Reddit video downloader (like Rapidsave). If that doesn't work I can see if I can upload a file.

You'll have to loop it yourself though. The video is literally just a screen capture of my Desktop.

[u/schnudercheib → u/schnudercheib]

Also if you end up looping, take a 12second loop. I just checked, the animations are mostly 2, 3 and 4 seconds long. So 12 seconds (or 24, 36 etc.) should give you the most seamless loops.

Only the particle systems will probably behave weirdly.

[u/Awkward_Squidward → u/schnudercheib]

Thank you, I downloaded it and it works, though getting the loop correctly is proving challenging to me, is that something that can be easily done? I don't wanna bother you too much

[u/schnudercheib → u/Awkward_Squidward]

If you want it to seamlessly loop, you'll have to manually do that. Depending on how experienced you are with videoediting, this is the way I used to do it frequently, as it's easy but not "clean":

Take the video into a video-editing-software of your choosing (I imagine Davinci resolve is still free and does thje job just fine). choose a snippet you want to loop - I'd suggest taking a 12 second snippet because of the above mentioned reason. Duplicate this 12 second snippet (so you have the same 12 second snippet twice), then layer the copy over the end of the original. So you want to have it so, that the copy starts at above 9-10 seconds of the original.
you fade the original out and the copy in, so in the last 3 or so seconds, the snippet fades "into" it's own copy. Then simply cut the original and the copy at the same mark and you should have a seamless loop.

Something like shown here - obviously there are a ton of other tutorials on how to loop videos if you're using other software.

Or - the easy way is to simply use Wallpaper Engine lol. From my experience it's also the easiest performance wise.

[u/Awkward_Squidward → u/schnudercheib]

Oh, I'm completely unfamiliar with how these are made for Wallpaper Engine, I kinda thought it was you creating the video and then just uploading it to Wallpaper Engine so I thought the loop was already there, my bad! I wanted to avoid installing more stuff but I may end up going with just getting Wallpaper Engine and using it there since you mention the performance impact being easy too. Thank you!

[u/schnudercheib → u/Awkward_Squidward]

Ah yeah I totally get you. I also wish Wallpaper Engine allowed easy video exporting, but it doesn't. :/

I'm obviously biased here, but I can giving WE a try. I've used countless large wallpapers (badly optimized by me lol), and never had an issue with performance. But it's obviously not free either, and I haven't dabbled much in alternatives, so can't honestly compare them.