Patch released - General Fixes, CEF Update, Shine Effect (Build 1.0.1211)

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Hey all,

a new patch for Wallpaper Engine has been released that fixes a few general things and improves some image effects.

The native video player has a fallback now that will attempt to load the video a second time without audio when necessary. This mainly helps with Geforce Experience's overlay, because when it enables itself, it will latently cause the audio device to error out in Windows for a moment. Now the video should just restart (though muted) when this happens instead of fully stopping and showing the Windows error 8889000f or C00D36FA. This is not the only cause for those error codes, but recently it has been reported the most.

The opacity mask for the shake (eye blink) effect has been improved and won't distort anymore and the god rays effect has a better noise option now with a smoother animation. A new 'shine' effect has been added as well that works similar to the god rays effect, it adds a glow shape to bright parts of the image instead of just adding a ray:



CEF has been updated as well to version 3.3359.1772, still using the major Chromium version 66 as before. Google has disabled all 'autoplay' elements, but I have added the respective command line to undo that.

Full changelog

• Added soft audio device error behavior (restart video, but muted, avoids errors C00D36FA and 8889000f in most cases).
  
• Added alpha write to blend effect.
  
• Added new 'shine' effect.
  

• Fixed a video loading crash if audio output was disabled and video file contains unreadable/corrupted streams.
  
• Fixed web access filter not applying access rights anymore.
  
• Fixed shake blink opacity mask getting distorted and not properly scaling.
  
• Fixed browser settings not always saving when certain options are changed.
  

• Updated CEF to version 3.3359.1772.
  
• Changed NVAPI to only update application paths on launch, not always revert to Intel GPU on NV Optimus.
  
• Removed crash handler from web wallpaper process when it starts shutting down.
  
• Added MSI Gaming App DLL detection to crash handler (it can crash DirectX).