https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=840157654

This wallpaper will use color effects to use the "black" of the bottom to hide the bottom of the VU meter and make it look like it is behind the ground and tree.


Sooooo .. after resetting settings... configure the settings as below.

Background Image: http://imgur.com/v0RuT ( use this image, save to drive somewhere )


4 Color Gradient: Unchecked ( we will only use 2 )

Gradient Start Color: #0093f4
Gradient End Color: #00bcff
Gradient Start Color 2: #cccccc
Gradient End Color 2: #ffffff

Note on colors: avoid the 2 start colors being at maximum brightness. That will cause some artifacting in the background image ( as its a jpg ) to become visible.

Note #2 on colors: as the background is pretty much desaturated, and color combination will work pretty good.

Opacity: 100
Peak Opacity: 100

Orientation: Bottom

Size Ratio: 2

Adjust Amplitude: 80 ( just lowering it a bit to not have it max out as often)

Smoothing Factor: Low ( this is optional, but by the looks of the screenshot i used a bit of smoothing .. smoothing tries to smooth out height differences between neighbouring bars )

This is the trick for this wallpaper. It will avoid lighting up the black foreground at the bottom making it look as if it falls behind it.

Blend Mode: "Color-Dodge" ( but multiply, overlay, darken, color-burn, color all work too and give slightly different effects. )


Now we have 2 systems. This is to demonstrate the new system.

Positioning System : Screen Center

Now scroll down to the section 'screen center', and skip Edge Offset.

Top Left X (px): -960
Top Left Y (px): -65

Top Right X (px): 960
Top Right Y (px): -65

Bottom Left X (px): -960
Bottom Left Y (px): 362

Bottom Right X (px): 960
Bottom Right Y (px): 362