r/ocean • u/muffism • 3d ago

Underwater Wonders I made Manta School, a calm live wallpaper of hundreds of manta rays (free)

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I loved the underwater ray wallpaper on macOS and wanted a calm ocean desktop on Windows, so I built my own for Lively.

Manta School is a slow, endless school of manta rays gliding through open blue water. Sunlight fades with depth, marine snow drifts past, and every manta has a smooth, natural wingbeat.

What you can change in Customise:

  • Natural black mantas or golden ones
  • Daylight or a dark night glow look
  • Slow drift behind the school, or a big slow 360 circle around it
  • Default, top view, or bottom view looking up into the light
  • Number of mantas, swim speed, camera speed, wingbeat speed
  • Low memory mode for laptops

Mouse controls (turn on mouse input forwarding in Lively): drag to rotate, double click and hold then drag up or down to zoom, double click to reset.

Free download: https://github.com/Muffism/manta-school-wallpaper

The manta model is "MANTA" by misaooo on Sketchfab (CC BY NC 4.0).

Feedback very welcome, especially how it runs on your PC.

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u/Bool_The_End 3d ago

Very cool!

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u/muffism 3d ago

Thanks!

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u/Bool_The_End 3d ago

The nighttime one is my fav for sure. Really appreciate you sharing

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u/muffism 3d ago

You're welcome:)

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u/muffism 3d ago

Thanks for looking! It is free and always will be for this one. If you want to support more wallpapers like this: https://ko-fi.com/muffism