Wallpaper-Engine

A wallpaper engine that allows you to run custom fragment shaders on your wallpaper.

Video Demo

video.mp4

Writing Wallpapers

Here is an example of a basic wallpaper:

#section metadata
name: "Super Cool Shader" # the title of the shader
uniforms
  float: 
    testFloat:            # name of the uniform in GLSL
      name: Test Float    # the name that will be displayed next to the slider
      min: 0.0            # the max slider value
      max: 1000.0         # the max slider value
  int: {}                 # we have no int uniforms
  bool: {}                # we have no boolean uniforms

#section shader
#version 330 core

out vec4 FragColor;       // Output color for pixel

uniform vec2 iResolution; // Screen width and height
uniform vec2 iMouse;      // Mouse position on screen
uniform float iTime;      // Time in seconds since application started

uniform float testFloat; 

void main(){
  FragColor = vec4(1.0);
}

There are sections to a wallpaper: metadata and shader. The metadata section allows you to write metadata about the wallpaper in YAML format. The other section, shader is where the glsl source code goes and is mandatory. You get access to a few default uniforms iResolution, iMouse and iTime. Any other uniforms you add will appear on the control menu for you to use them.

Build Instructions

Windows

git clone https://github.com/Spacerulerwill/Wallpaper-Engine --recursive
cd WallpaperEngine/tools
configure
cd ../build
WallpaperEngine.sln

Once you are in the solution you can build and run the project like normal.