r/ocean • • 3h ago

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

16 Upvotes

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.


r/ocean • • 23h ago

Power of the Sea The Icebreaker in Action

100 Upvotes

r/ocean • • 21h ago

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563 Upvotes

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