DeskScapes 3.5 and 4 New Master Dynamic Dreams Released

Published on November 2, 2011 By Island Dog In WinCustomize News

Today we release DeskScapes 3.5 which is an application that lets users have animated wallpapers on their Windows desktop. These animated wallpapers (also called .dreams) can be video-based or dynamically generated for a wide variety of content. DeskScapes can also apply effects to .dreams and static wallpapers as well.

New in DeskScapes 3.5:

Added four new wallpaper effects (blue colors only, green colors only, red colors only, and desaturate)
Added option to keep only a range of colors in a static wallpaper (Colors tab)
Added support for new WinCustomize Master Skin premium dreams

We have also released 4 new Master Dreams from Stardock Design! These in addition to other Master Dreams available on WinCustomize give you a great choice of premium animated wallpapers to choose from.

Colored Lights
Colored Desktop
Drips
Moving Wallpaper

DeskScapes is available for $19.95 or part of the Object Desktop suite of desktop enhancements. Visit the DeskScapes website for more information and downloads.

https://www.stardock.com/products/deskscapes/

Video demo of new Dynamic Dreams.

Note: It's difficult to record HD video of the dynamic dreams. These small previews might appear slow or jumpy, but they are completely smooth when being used on the desktop. It's just a limitation of video software.

Comments (Page 2)

Jimbo9294

on Nov 03, 2011

Great stuff here.. I can't wait to update to 3.5 and get these Dreams (My schedule has me tied up until Friday ).

Island Dog

reply 9

It's just a limitation of video software.

This is the problem I have all the time. Looked at it work...Jumpy... Got home, on the desktop...Smooth.

Budaii

on Nov 03, 2011

CarGuy1

reply 15

Hey ID...I believe you were wrong about it being safe to uninstall Impulse.

Damn...now I have to reinstall Impulse to update DeskScapes.

Update: Well I downloaded and installed Impulse GameStop and before I could sign in a balloon notification popped up in the taskbar saying there was a DeskScapes update. I signed in and updated to 3.5 within Impulse GameStop.

The odd thing is Impulse GameStop installed the update on top of the old version without uninstalling DeskScapes.

Same problem this morning through installing the new CursorFX Update. I reinstalled GameStop, let it install the update, then uninstalled first CursorFX and afterwards GameStop. Now I installed CursorFX from my account.

I think so you can get a clean install of DeskScapes too.

Jafo

on Nov 03, 2011

Nakor

reply 13

I'm a little biased (as I pushed for the development of DeskScapes for years before it came out), but I reorganized my wallpaper folders just for the Moving Wallpaper dream (as I liked it so much).

Who let this guy in? Just cos he's Number 2 ?

Hi, Kris....

danioc

on Nov 03, 2011

Pretty cool update, I like a lot the Colored Lights .dream

gevansmd

on Nov 03, 2011

I still have Impulse installed so I tried to use it to update Deskscapes but it says my Object Desktop subscription has expired. Well it did but I renewed it a month ago. Now what do I do to install the Deskscapes update?

**SOLVED**

Impulse allowed me to uninstall the old version and then I was able to install the update.

Asound

on Nov 04, 2011

Can you customize "Colored Lights" in any way? It is a dynamic dream, but nowhere stands anything about available settings.

And the "Moving Wallpaper" is really great. Even though the collage is amazing, I still mostly used a single picture as an wallpaper so far. But that now will probably stay on for a while. It is so calming and comforting.

Neil Banfield

on Nov 04, 2011

Coloured lights has a couple of config options.

You can alter the speed, make all your monitors show the same content (vs unique for each) and tell it to avoid reds, greens or blues if you prefer it didn't use certain colours. The desktop colours dream has the very same settings and so does the drips dream though that also has an option to keep the background dark unlike the others.

Asound

on Nov 04, 2011

Ok, thank you. So I will buy some of the others too (probably all ). But not until I had enough of "moving wallpaper"

Excalpius

on Nov 05, 2011

Each of them has the option to show unique content per monitor for multiple monitor users which is a plus and two of them default to a very slow speed so they do not distract you at all.

I just bought the Moving Wallpaper dream and as always you create the best dreams!

I'd love to see this feature quoted above added to an update of Photodream, of course. Right now, I have to run multiple instances of Photodream to get the same result and I'm sure that's not as efficient as your new approach. 8)

As far as this awesome dream goes, is there ever a possibility that the pan and zoom of a single image can cover 2 or more monitors at the same time? I have a directory filled with 5000+ pixel wide images that would just look stunning with your dream panning and zooming around multiple monitors!

GREAT work as always. Thanks for keeping Deskscapes fresh and exciting.

Onklifiziert

on Nov 07, 2011

I bought all 4 new ones a couple of days ago and i must say they rock!!! Great job in these Dreams!

Island Dog

on Nov 07, 2011

Onklifiziert

reply 25

I bought all 4 new ones a couple of days ago and i must say they rock!!! Great job in these Dreams!

Excalpius

on Nov 07, 2011

Update for Neil: I have found that your new algorithm for handling multiple monitors with Moving Wallpapers works GREAT with multiple monitors on the same display adapter. It is very efficient with dwm.exe cycles.

However, it still suffers from the same problems as other dreams when working with monitors on another/second display adapter.

In those cases, it is still preferable to run two or more separate instances of Moving Wallpaper, one per monitor, in order to optimize the hardware acceleration per task per monitor (layman's description).

Because of this, I am now running Moving Wallpaper, Photo Dream, and Desktop Collage on a single desktop comprised of three different 30" monitors using two different display adapters and the (NOT state of the art) machine is VERY responsive - and stunningly beautiful!

You are the man.

mat7h3w

on Nov 13, 2011

Very nice! Even though there seems to have been a small slowdown on releases of quality skins, like when Kol switched to a Mac and has never been back (Despite in my personal opinion BEST OS X Tiger WindowBlinds), this is something be truly impressed by.

I know that not many have 3D monitors yet (cost plus wearing funky glasses), I would personally spend the money to buy a touch-screen 3D monitor, if Stardock would release a fully HD touch 3D interactive desktop. Even owning a license for the next year of Object Desktop, I would gladly pay extra for something like that.

Keep up the great work everyone. I look forward to seeing what you guys come up with next.

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