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Buildinggam
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Joined: August 12th, 2012, 12:50 am

Changing the Perspective of a skin?

Post by Buildinggam »

Hi, I'm a noob to rain meter but I finally have a setup I really like. What I am trying to do is make the meters look like they are actually on the buildings. I have no idea how to do it I have searched to no avail so I figured I would ask here.
Thanks


I think if you could show me maybe on the date I might be able to pick it up....
here is the code for the date.........

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[Rainmeter]
Author=Falconer
Update=1000
AppVersion=1000000

[Metadata]
Name=Date
Config=Elementary | Date
Description=day, month, and date.
Instructions=
Version=beta
Tags=basic | elementary | clean | Century Gothic | Date
License=Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 3.0

[Variables]
@include=#RootConfigPath#\Group1\Variables.inc

;--------Measures--------

[MeasureDay]
Measure=Time
Format=%A,

[MeasureMonth]
Measure=Time
Format=%B

[MeasureDate]
Measure=Time
Format=%#d


;--------Meters--------

[MeterDay]
MeasureName=MeasureDay
Meter=STRING
X=20
Y=0
FontColor=255,255,255,200
FontSize=20
FontFace=#Font#
StringAlign=LEFT
StringStyle=#Style#
StringEffect=#Effect#
FontEffectColor=#EffectColor#
AntiAlias=1

[MeterMonth]
MeasureName=MeasureMonth
Meter=STRING
X=0
Y=30
FontColor=255,255,255,200
FontSize=30
FontFace=#Font#
StringAlign=LEFT
StringStyle=#Style#
StringEffect=#Effect#
FontEffectColor=#EffectColor#
AntiAlias=1

[MeterDate]
MeasureName=MeasureDate
Meter=STRING
X=5R
Y=25
FontColor=255,255,255,200
FontSize=35
FontFace=#Font#
StringAlign=LEFT
StringStyle=#Style#
StringEffect=#Effect#
FontEffectColor=#EffectColor#
AntiAlias=1
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Last edited by jsmorley on September 1st, 2012, 6:10 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Reason: Added [code] tags
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MerlinTheRed
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Joined: September 6th, 2011, 6:34 am

Re: Changing the Perspective of a skin?

Post by MerlinTheRed »

Sadly you can't do perspective distortion with Rainmeter (it's been bugging me forever). There is a TransformationMatrix option you can use to transform any meter, but it only supports affine transformations (scale, rotate, move, shear). Making a meter look like it is tilted off the screen plane isn't possible with these. I'm still hoping that this will be added one day since it shouldn't even be very hard to do.
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Buildinggam
Posts: 6
Joined: August 12th, 2012, 12:50 am

Re: Changing the Perspective of a skin?

Post by Buildinggam »

I have lost my reason for living.......


Yea its bugging me too