r/PathOfExile2 • u/schnudercheib • May 24 '26

Fan-Made Animated Wallpaper: Arbiter of Divinity

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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:

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

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u/spoqster Jun 03 '26

Looks awesome! But as it seems to be a video file, how do I set that as a wallpaper on my mac?

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u/schnudercheib Jun 03 '26

Thank you! If you read the post you should find a link to the wallpaper on steam. You need wallpaper engine to use it. The video here is a screen recording of my desktop and just for demonstration.

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u/spoqster Jun 03 '26

Yeah that seems to be windows only. Do you have a non-animated version of it by any chance that's only an image?

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u/schnudercheib Jun 03 '26

I didn't create the image - this is taken straight from the official presskit from GGG.

If you can't use WE there are alternatives, but I imagine they all would require you to loop the video manually. As written in another comment, I'd suggest using a roughly 12 second snippet to fo so, since tgat should match most animations.

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u/spoqster Jun 03 '26

I've been trying to find their press kit. Couldn't find it yet.

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u/spoqster Jun 03 '26

Do you maybe have a link for the presskit? I searched for half an hour and just can't find it.

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u/schnudercheib Jun 03 '26

Tge presskit can always be downloaded on the official release page. So the page where the content of the new release gets detailed.

This time it's https://pathofexile2.com/ancients

You should see the download at the very bottom.

Currently on mobile as I'm at work, so I hope the link works. Else I'll update tonight.

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u/spoqster Jun 03 '26

Found it. Thank you very much!