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I am working on a live weather wallpaper

Ever since I released my 2nd app Lively Weather this was the most requested wallpaper 😁

The wallpaper weather effect will change based on the location weather ...

Lively Weather new update brings weather provider, GPS location and more!

This release adds new weather data source, GPS location, environment effects and enhancements.

The Journey

Implementing a new weather provider and adding support for multiple ones turned out to be more work than I in...

Happy New Year!

This year was especially exciting for me because I released my new weather app, Lively Weather. It’s a big deal for me because I always want my creations to stand out and be special. That’s why I don’t release many new apps ...

Lively Weather night theme is released!

Lively Weather v1.0.27.0 update is out which introduces new night background and sound themes.

What's new:

• Weather background theme changes based on selected location day/night time.
• New night ambient s...
  2023-12-11 14:42:30 +0000 UTC View Post

Early look at Screensaver update

Next Lively update will include enhancements and bugfixes to screensaver feature.
In the demo users can select separate screensaver from running wallpaper.
I am still working on creating a user friendly UI, this is an early demo and things c...

Lively Weather - Ambient Sound Update

Hi guys,

Its been a few months since I launched my 2nd app "Lively Weather" - a one of a kind weather app powered by DirectX animations.

Since release I have been working on improving it based on user feedback, a quick recap:

-...

Lively Windows 11 22H2 Update

I am happy to say that the Lively v2.0.7.4 adds support for latest Windows 11 22H2 update.

Patches for Windows 11 22H2 update

• Fixed wallpaper disappearing when Copilot(Preview) opened.
• Fixed wallpaper di...
  2023-10-27 10:33:58 +0000 UTC View Post

Lively Weather is released

It took me months, but here it is: my animated weather app called ‘Lively Weather’! Ta-da!

Features

• Experience different weather conditions with animated DirectX shaders. As it rains outside, you will see ani...
  2023-09-28 02:18:36 +0000 UTC View Post

Weather application progress after a month

Its been a month since I started working on the weather application.. completely redesigned the interface and added many features.

The application is 100% Windows native using DirectX 12 for the dynamic weather effects with a total download ...

I am making a weather app🌧️

Hi guys,

Its been a while since last update.. was busy learning Win2D and DirectX shaders for the past few weeks and thinking of different ways to integrate it with Lively.

Thought of making an app to learn faster, decided to go with a...

A New Smarter Lively (Update v2.0.7)

Lively just got smarter with AI.. introducing first of many to come AI feature "Depth Wallpapers" - using Machine Learning to predict distance of objects from the camera and then use GPU shaders to create 3D image!

In my testing works best ...

An Early Look At First AI Feature

For the past few weeks I have been playing with the idea of adding AI features to Lively.. announcing one feature today.

AI Depth Wallpapers
In this demo regular pictures are transformed into 3D like by estimating the di...

Living Room Wallpaper

• TV shows currently playing music.
• Audio reactive TV/Soundbar ambient lighting.
• Surrounding objects are affected by ambient light.
• Picture frame image can be changed.
• Customisable camera.
• Real-time...
  2023-05-22 12:15:28 +0000 UTC View Post

Lively Wallpaper v2.0.6.5 Update

Features:

• Includes Protein Clouds and updated Rain wallpaper with video background support.
• New Titlebar implementation with Search feature.
• Cleaned up the UI, labels are now hidden after first run. 2023-05-02 00:14:34 +0000 UTC View Post

Clouds wallpaper

Real time clouds with customization.

The scene is being rendered 1/4 resolution at 24fps to reduce resource usage (can be changed.)

Live demo:

...

New interactive website powered by shaders!

I wrote a new website for Lively powered by threejs and shaders - same technology powering wallpapers.

The idea is people get a quick feel of what it is like using Lively by changing the background and customizing. The color scheme is kept s...

Snow wallpaper with video background support

Features:

• Adjustable snow particles.
• Custom image or video background.
• Background color temperature (post processing.)
• Background mouse parallax.
• Background blur (frosted glass.) 2023-04-08 19:41:26 +0000 UTC View Post

New Rain wallpaper with video support and more!

This is a complete rewrite using a different library.

What's new in Rain v3:

• Video background support.
• Scale to fill algorithm, now you can use background of any size without the stretched look.
2023-03-27 14:20:18 +0000 UTC View Post

Simple System 3D wallpaper showcase

Finally released this "Simple System 3D" wallpaper.. uses Lively music, hardware and visualizer api all in a single project. Definitely overkill running this 3D scene.. think of it more like a tech demo, the Simple system with 2D art is more pract...

Media parallax wallpaper

A simple parallax wallpaper with visualizer made using Lively System API 

Download:

2023-03-15 15:04:08 +0000 UTC View Post

[Idea] Automatic parallax/depth wallpaper generation from pictures

Just an idea I had, there are machine learning algorithms that can estimate depth of images and using that can create parallax or depth effect wallpaper as shown above.

The challenge is to run the machine learning locally (extra download) so...

Lively Music Update v2.0.6 is out: Wallpapers that show currently playing music from Spotify, Chrome are available now!

Its fetching the data from Windows, so it works out of the box without any setup if the player supports it.. Spotify, YouTube (Chrome), media players..

Launch trailer:

2023-02-23 14:11:53 +0000 UTC View Post

Next Lively update will support media information

Visualizer + media information will help make some cool wallpapers.

Media information will work with spotify, youtube, vlc, foobar or any media player because its taking the information from Windows.

Car audio reactive wallpaper

Just something I created while playing with the idea of wallpaper that reacts with bass of music.

Download:

https...

Working on a new application

Its very early in development.. as for what it does? It's a secret for now 🙂

Working on theme support (app only.)

I think Lively UI needs some color, next update will allow users to add app theme!

Documentation:

https://github.com/...

Lively v2.0.3.2 update released!

This update focuses on improving audio visualizers and user experience.

The orbits visualizer shown in the video will release soon (still working on it.)

To update click on '...' -> About -> Check for update or check for update i...

New Eye Dropper tool

There will be a new Lively update with some usability improvements releasing soon.

Windows media control integration

Looking into integrating Lively with Windows media controls so that wallpapers can interact currently playing song from youtube, spotify, media player etc..

Discord server is up

Lively Discord server is up!

Connect your discord account to patreon and you should automatically get added to the server with the right role:

2022-07-18 21:07:46 +0000 UTC View Post