Aqua-Soft Forumswhat is the best setting in WindowFX to emulate real OSX shadow? and does WindowFX support shadow to taskbar? thanks a lot in advance
Windowfx Shadow
Hi there,
There are several WinFX setting that emulate the OS X shadow quite well.
They are all called "Darwin". Darwin, Darwin Mini and Darwin Mixed.
I use plain "Darwin" myself.
As for WinFX supporting taskbar shadow, unfortunately it doesn't.
If it did it would be damned near perfect for our needs, well, for my needs at least.
As it is right now, I just add a tiny drop shadow to my wallpapers to get the desired effect.
Peace,
Grusic
hmm..I just tried WindowFX today. since it is more to hardware thing. but, no taskbar support, too bad. looks like I'll go back to Yz 
thanks a lot anyway.
Originally posted by digitheatre@Mar 8 2003, 12:40 PMhmm..I just tried WindowFX today. since it is more to hardware thing. but, no taskbar support, too bad. looks like I'll go back to Yz
I was also disappointed with WindowFX's inability to shadow the taskbar. Instead of going back to Yz shadow, I opted to run ObjectBar. Yz Shadow is too slow for my crappy Celeron 533 mhz machine but WindowFX takes advantage of my AIW Radeon. Oh well, you can't have it all, I guess...
is there any way to set the shadow manually like Yz? Darwin setting just don't shadow enough. I need more shadow 
(instead of choosing Yz, I go for both) 
you could always make your own... if it bothers you that much.
the shadows are in Drive:\Program Files\Object Desktop\WindowFX\ ... shouldn't be THAT difficult to edit them or whatever. you'd need to make new images and also edit the .wbd docs... but hey, if it makes you happy
_Felix
those who wanna run wfx but cant have their taskbar skinned, than just make a wallpaper with the shadow undernethe the taskbar.
just capture the screen and paste it to photoshop.
now regarding wfx, it should be more than appreciated since it uses the GPU power rather than having a software renderer like Yz have. Regardless of that, many people do use OBJECT BAR, which causes their pcs to look 50% closer to the mac. Without it, its simply windows "skinned" to look like OSX, without the feel 
It is difficult to edit the bmp in WindowFx, I'm not an artist and photoshop person. I have tried, but no luck.
I just don't satisfy with the Darwin shadow, I think it does not emulate OSX shadow enough. If a window is on non-white background, like the blue wallpaper, the right&left border is appear with like almost no shadow. that's is why I keep running both, Yz and wfx, so that Yz shadow can overlap the wfx shadow. I'm happy enough with Yz, no performance drop on my machine, wfx is just used to shadow winsafari and qcd.
If anyone has created more OSX alike shadow, please send me one. so that I can totally get rid of yz. thanks a lot in advance.
then go check this website:
http://www.users.monornet.hu/osx/
it has in the stuff section shadows for winFX named OSXBig which should satisfy you...
thanks ieub, but it also ain't enuff. the shadow is is much the same with darwin. you can see from this screenshot. almost no shadow compared to one using Yz.
wfx
Yz
I need bigger shadow please. 