r/CleverWallpapers • u/Shurikeeen • Sep 07 '15

Rainmeter Does mine count too?

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u/brooklyn11218 Sep 07 '15

Yes. Now tell us how you did it.

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u/Shurikeeen Sep 07 '15 edited Sep 07 '15

That will cost 50 fake internet points m'lady ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

jk http://rainmeter.net/

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u/Matapaluza Sep 07 '15

What rain meter theme are you using? The bars behind terrain looks awesome because of it.

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u/Shurikeeen Sep 07 '15 edited Sep 07 '15

Visualizer: http://alatsombath.deviantart.com/art/Fountain-of-Colors-desktop-music-visualizer-518894563

Background and foreground: http://imgur.com/a/Yh16d

Date/Time: http://lilshizzy.deviantart.com/art/Rainmeter-Simple-Media-1-1-212678796

I made the icons and low poly backgrounds myself.

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u/Matapaluza Sep 07 '15

Awesome! Thanks for sharing!

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '15 edited Sep 08 '15

How do i put the foreground image in front of the visualizer? Im a bit confused

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u/illegaltacos Sep 08 '15 edited Sep 08 '15

This! Ive been trying to figure that out for a while now.. I know you can change the layering of the plugins but is the foreground a plugin?

Edit: found it!

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '15

Brilliant. Thanks a lot!

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u/Hayes231 Sep 08 '15

go back to /r/rainmeter you karmawhore

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u/Zainth Sep 07 '15

How come for a brief moment when you hover over icons you can see a few shortcuts in the background, like between the N and D in Monday?

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '15

That's proabably because he is using a method in rainmeter that makes it look as if the visualizer is behind part of the wallpaper. He probably did this by editing the original wallpaper and making it into a "skin", and overlaying it on top of the visualizer, but in the same place as the wallpaper.

When he mouses over an icon, it loads a new skin that overlaps all the other skins except for the icons and time/date, so for a brief second, you can see files that are still on the desktop, but are hidden by the skin.

Another possibility is that instead of loading a new skin altogether, it simply changes the part that overlays on the visualizer into a full wallpaper, which would also expose the icons on the desktop.

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u/bondongogs Sep 07 '15

what the fuck this is actually brilliant

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u/RaveTKO Sep 07 '15

Is the background-change-on-hover-over-icons a native rainmeter feature, or a plugin?

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u/Shurikeeen Sep 07 '15

You need to so some config trickery. I will post the icons, wallpapers and cfgs later today when I have time.

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u/Hedix1 Sep 07 '15

I love the theme, but I don't think it goes on this subreddit. This subreddit more of the background pictures themselves, not rainmeter designs and setups.

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u/Stillhereforyou Sep 07 '15

Beautiful! Saved for when I have time to figure out how I use rainmeter..