Thanks for replying but why is the perspective clock not showing for me? I double checked that I have the plugin installed but it still looks like this:Yincognito wrote: ↑March 16th, 2024, 11:07 pm Something like this could be a starting point:Perspective.jpgCode: Select all
[Rainmeter] Update=1000 AccurateText=1 DynamicWindowSize=1 ---Measures--- [MeasureClock] Measure=Time Format=%H:%M OnChangeAction=[!CommandMeasure Magick "Update"] [Magick] Measure=Plugin Plugin=MagickMeter ;Image=Text [MeasureClock] | Face Tahoma | Size 75 | Align Left | BackgroundColor 255,0,0,128 | Color 255,255,255,255 | AntiAlias 1 | Offset 0,0 | Canvas 254,121 | Perspective 0,0,254,0,254,121,0,121 Image=Text [MeasureClock] | Face Tahoma | Size 75 | Align Left | BackgroundColor 255,0,0,128 | Color 255,255,255,255 | AntiAlias 1 | Perspective 0,50,224,0,254,100,50,100 ---Meters--- [Back] Meter=Image W=508 H=242 SolidColor=0,0,0,128 [Image] Meter=Image MeasureName=Magick [Clock] Meter=String X=254 Y=0 W=254 H=121 FontFace=Tahoma FontSize=75 StringAlign=Left SolidColor=0,0,255,128 FontColor=255,255,255,255 AntiAlias=1 InlineSetting=Shadow | 9 | 4 | 6.5 | 0,0,0,255 MeasureName=MeasureClock Text=%1 DynamicVariables=1
See:
https://github.com/khanhas/MagickMeter/wiki
https://github.com/khanhas/MagickMeter/wiki/Text
https://github.com/khanhas/MagickMeter/wiki/Effects#perspective
Don't ask me what everything actually means though, the wiki is nice but still not 100% clear in some aspects. Blue to the right is the original, red to the left is the perspective version. Not sure how to add inline settings to the text in a MagickMeter measure or if it's even possible. In essence, that "text" is not a string anymore, but an image, which is manipulated exclusively through the MagickMeter options (which don't seem to provide inline setting capabilities, or at least not that I could find while briefly examining the plugin's wiki).
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I need help with changing my clock into 3D perspective
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Re: I need help with changing my clock perspective
I don't know, it worked for me, as mentioned above. Obviously, you need to have a (recent?) version of ImageMagick installed on your system. If the sample skin(s) from the MagickMeter link work, so should the one above.
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Re: I need help with changing my clock into 3D perspective
Doesn't work me either. Unfortunately have no enough time now to take a deeper look, but I see it doesn't work.
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Can't explain it, really. Here's another proof in my case (the skin includes the plugin version I'm using, if it matters)...
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Re: I need help with changing my clock perspective
I just noticed that I have been getting errors every second and it seems like a file is missing:Yincognito wrote: ↑March 17th, 2024, 2:53 pm I don't know, it worked for me, as mentioned above. Obviously, you need to have a (recent?) version of ImageMagick installed on your system. If the sample skin(s) from the MagickMeter link work, so should the one above.
How do I resolve this?
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Re: I need help with changing my clock perspective
Good catch. Yes, the skin is probably not able to open the temporary image file used by MagickMeter, since your entire Rainmeter skins folder has been redirected to the OneDrive location by the very "helpful" Windows. See here for details (there are other topics about handling OneDrive redirection, you can use the Search button on this forum to see them):
https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.php?t=31708
In short, I don't use OneDrive, but the choice as far as I know is either changing the location of your skins folder to the default local Documents location from the Manage Rainmeter window (as well as moving its contents appropriately), or giving proper permission for the OneDrive folders if you insist in keeping the skins folder there.
P.S. That doesn't explain why the skin doesn't work for balala though, unless he has been a victim of the same redirection.
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Re: I need help with changing my clock perspective
Somehow moving the rainmeter folder to my local documents folder still retains the errorYincognito wrote: ↑March 18th, 2024, 11:48 am Good catch. Yes, the skin is probably not able to open the temporary image file used by MagickMeter, since your entire Rainmeter skins folder has been redirected to the OneDrive location by the very "helpful" Windows. See here for details (there are other topics about handling OneDrive redirection, you can use the Search button on this forum to see them):
https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.php?t=31708
In short, I don't use OneDrive, but the choice as far as I know is either changing the location of your skins folder to the default local Documents location from the Manage Rainmeter window (as well as moving its contents appropriately), or giving proper permission for the OneDrive folders if you insist in keeping the skins folder there.
P.S. That doesn't explain why the skin doesn't work for balala though, unless he has been a victim of the same redirection.
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Re: I need help with changing my clock perspective
I must have rushed to conclusions in my last reply, cause now on a second thought I don't think that image is created by MagickMeter (in my case, it creates a .bmp and it puts it in the temporary folder, not in the skins one): That being said, moving the skins folder locally was the right thing to do, it causes all kinds of surprises otherwise, as you could read elsehwere. I suspect that the error you have there is related to some other code you have in your Cold\Clock.ini file, where you use some value not available at skin load time and that defaults to "0" (to which the .png extension is added). In the code I posted, there is no ImageName option like in your error, by the way - I only noticed this now. Maybe you could share that code?
Just curious, did you try the "Perspective" skin I posted above? Does it still fail to show the perspective text?
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Re: I need help with changing my clock into 3D perspective
Letting you know Yincognito's code works fine for me.
I have seen other issues with the latest release of ImageMagick V 7.1.1.29, which is why I still use version V 7.1.0.29
I have the latest Rainmeter version on updated Windows 10 system.I have seen other issues with the latest release of ImageMagick V 7.1.1.29, which is why I still use version V 7.1.0.29
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Re: I need help with changing my clock perspective
I had backed up my code and replaced everything with yours, and I also tried your sample but it also did not work.Yincognito wrote: ↑March 18th, 2024, 3:56 pm I must have rushed to conclusions in my last reply, cause now on a second thought I don't think that image is created by MagickMeter (in my case, it creates a .bmp and it puts it in the temporary folder, not in the skins one):
TempImage.jpg
That being said, moving the skins folder locally was the right thing to do, it causes all kinds of surprises otherwise, as you could read elsehwere. I suspect that the error you have there is related to some other code you have in your Cold\Clock.ini file, where you use some value not available at skin load time and that defaults to "0" (to which the .png extension is added). In the code I posted, there is no ImageName option like in your error, by the way - I only noticed this now. Maybe you could share that code?
Just curious, did you try the "Perspective" skin I posted above? Does it still fail to show the perspective text?
Oh and by the way my code is at the very first post of this thread if you wanted to look at it.