Thanks for work! One of the best moments of the volume, if not the entire book.

love this scene from the LN, and great work on this wallpaper its really nice 10/10.

remember people season 4 is coming out.

The swords slash effect is pretty much all there is to the audio reaction element.

I wanted it be fairly subtle so it wouldn't be too aggressive and I'd like think I achieved a good middle ground between calmer music and the more "popping" kind.

But looking back on it I probably could've tinkered more with it.

Glad you like it. ;)

just asking, how does the audio response work? I saw that it changes the slash but playing around I can't see any changes. Love the wallpaper though!

This is awesome glad you posted it!

Heh, glad you like it.

I've been looking for a high res image of this for a wallpaper ever since I've first seen it, the moving details and the music work well for this. Probs gonna be my permanent background

The slash done by the sword has a slight reaction to audio, making it more vibrant, pretty subtle but it’s there.

Thanks. :)

I see. Thank you for the detailed answer (and despite that gpu usage the wallpaper is really nice ^^ )

Unfortunately there's nothing I can do to lower that usage. I've found that most of the wallpapers that I make tend to vary between around 20-40%, which seems to be the average range regardless of resolution, the ones in the 20% range typically being simpler with less effects running.

On GPU usage with wallpaper engine in general, naturally the higher the FPS you set it to the higher the GPU usage will be, changing the Graphics API in settings from DirectX11 to DirectX9 or OpenGL might lower it as well.

That said there was one wallpaper I made that went as high as 60% to high 70% I believe. So I went and replaced the image after some experimenting and redid it from scratch pretty much, managed to cut the usage down to around 40%, so it can be the image file in some cases causing strange performance issues.

Something to keep in mind if you're seeing 50-60%+ usage, but around and under 40% seems to be fairly average for wallpapers with multiple layers, effects and motion.

Good way to think about it is that this is effectively rendering in real time and not simply a video playing, which would take up far less resources to run by comparison.

TLDR

In any case, I don't think there's anything inherantly wrong with the wallpapers performance as much as it is Wallpaper Engine itself needing better optimization if anything.

It might be the resolution but running this background on my pc takes up way too many ressources. ~30 - 40% gpu usage are way too much for a background so I think there's something wrong with this.
For reference (so nobody says I'm using an Intel HD raphics chip to render this):
i7 6700k
gtx 980ti
win 10
16gb RAM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1T3UF1vhSk

What song by Lucas King is this specifically?