Methodox Wallpaper Generator

Overview

Methodox Wallpaper Generator generates images suitable for wallpapers from scratch. There are no images inside the program. Each generator is a piece of code that draws a scene from a width, a height, a seed and a handful of settings — so when you ask for 8K it paints 8K, rather than enlarging something smaller.

Originally conceived for Methodox games - we are releasing it for its standalone utility.

Pick a generator. Pick a size. Save! 

Please note that only Windows version is available right now!

Features

• Built-in generators
• Custom output resolution: up to 4K (depending on generator)
• Randomized (depending on generator)

Generators

Five generators

• City Skyline — a downtown cluster of towers after dark, lit windows in seven colour temperatures, and a lake that gives most of it back. Night, moonlit, twilight or blue hour; water, rooftops, or nothing at all.
• Aurora Tundra — curtains hanging over an arctic valley, with a frozen river carrying the sky's colour down between the snow ridges.
• Floating Isles — islands over a layered cloud sea, waterfalls pouring off their undersides into nothing, birds working the updraft.
• Crystal Cavern — a drowned chamber of polygonal crystal, lit from an opening you never see and doubled in the pool below.
• Wild Dunes — a wind-carved dune field, ray-cast with real cast shadows, so the light on the crests is the light the geometry actually gets.

Each one gives you five to seven controls. 

Output sizes

Common sizes: 360p, 720p, 1080p, 1440p, 4K and 8K, plus a 21:9 ultrawide at 3440 x 1440 and a phone portrait at 1170 x 2532.

The available sizes depend on the generator. The four stylised environments work inside palettes of 18 to 25 colours and put their gradients into an ordered dither — that crosshatch is what makes them read as pixel art at wallpaper size instead of as a photograph someone shrank, and past 4K it stops being texture and turns into noise. So they cap at 4K, and the sizes above it stay in the row with a padlock.

City Skyline carries no fixed-size texture, so it runs the whole ladder to 8K.

A size that is not 16:9 is previewed at its own shape, letterboxed rather than  stretched. A phone wallpaper really is a tall picture.

Version history

• v0.1 — first release. Five generators, eight output sizes, seeds written into file names.

Links

• Website
• Wiki

Download Instructions

• Windows: Only x64 is available; The "native" build is faster and smaller.
• Linux: Only x64 is available
• Mac: Choose based on whether you are Intel (x64) or M-series (arm64) CPU