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A Little Slice of Persona 4 *AND 3* on your Desktop
Jon B | 1:49 AM on 04.22.2010 57 comments


This is where I'd normally just copy-paste the stuff from the DeviantArt page, but NO! Dtoid deserves better!



There once was a game called Persona 4.
It was a very good game, that many people said was very good. And things.
This is a little snippet of that, on your desktop.

Made this sheerly because I was bored, and the GiantBomb endurance run having "I'd have that widget on my desktop" said. So what the hell, ya know? Fire up Photoshop, get cracking in Notepad++, and here's the products of my labour.

Everything works like it should (hopefully) and the weather even syncs with your real life weather, using Yahoo. The little text saying time of day? Yeah, that changes too. I did have a big thing flash up on the screen like in P4, but it decided to break, so I removed it.

I should probably also mention that you'll need Rainmeter to use this, too. Very nifty little app. You'll need the Enigma files installed in order to run this for the Weather function, but Rainmeter comes with it anyway.
To install it, you simply have to plop the Persona 4 directory into your "My Documents\Rainmeter\Skins\" directory and go from there.

Aaand that's pretty much it. Make sure that if something breaks horribly, you sound off in the comments and I'll get cracking at fixing it. And feel free to suggest something else to do, if I fancy it I'll give it a shot.

You can grab it from my dA, here.

*UPDATE*
As per request, I've done a Persona 3 edition, too. Everything from above applies still.



You can grab this, also from my dA, here.

Additionally, for those who say that the weather doesn't work, there's not much I could do to fix it, so instead I synced it to change the weather periodically instead of getting data from Yahoo.

I've updated the original file on dA, so you'll need to redownload that.



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KirbyMcDope's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/22/2010 04:49
KirbyMcDope
Thank you man, this is amazing.
For some reason that place where cloud icon is on the picture blank for some reason. Is it because I need to input info about my location manually? I never used that Rainmeter before.
P-Dude's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/22/2010 08:28
P-Dude
This is AWESOME. I am having the same issues as GredRedneckHope, though. I entered my code into the config menu, and it displays on the bottom right as cloudy, but the Persona circle area is just black.
Nic128's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/22/2010 09:18
Nic128
It works. Is it possible to position it in any corner? It's beautiful.
mourning orange's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/22/2010 11:56
mourning orange
Where would you put the files on a Vista install?
mourning orange's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/22/2010 11:59
mourning orange
NM, figured it out. Apparently you must run Rainmeter at least once after installing to get the Rainmeter\Skins folders to show up.
mourning orange's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/22/2010 12:14
mourning orange
Looks great, I love it!

Thanks a million.
Char Aznable's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/22/2010 13:10
Char Aznable
Nice job, dude! Giant Bomb Endurance Run rules.
Phoenix Gamma's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/22/2010 13:40
Phoenix Gamma
I'm a man whose tastes favor P3 more.

With that said, I would perform sexual favors for you if you would make a P3 themed one. Lots of favors.

<3
Jon B's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/22/2010 13:51
Jon B
@Phoenix Gamma
You know, I'm actually planning on doing just that, but it'll need some rewriting of the time code, because Midnight's 0 value is picked up as NULL in Rainmeter, which kinda messes things up.

@GreatRedNeck + P-Dude
Do you have the stock Enigma installed? I believe some locations flat out don't work, but if it's displaying the weather from there, then it should work, most of the code's the same.
Amnesiac's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/22/2010 13:53
Amnesiac
Ultra-fap. Thank you for this.
mourning orange's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/22/2010 14:23
mourning orange
I'm having the same problem as GreatRedNeck + P-Dude. i copied the url of the yahoo weather rss feed for my location into the ini file...
Aurain's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/22/2010 14:32
Aurain
I really want this.
But I really don't want to install a bunch of addons and junk to get it...

hmm
Mooks's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/22/2010 14:52
Mooks
This is fantastic my friend! Fap and a high five!
Jon B's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/22/2010 15:24
Jon B
@Mourning Orange
I'll get cracking on one that loads a random image each day if people are having issues with the weather synchronisation thing. I didn't make the .dll, so I'm afraid there isn't really much I can do about it if it's not loading your location.

As for now, I'm about to finish up a Persona 3 version.
mourning orange's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/22/2010 17:17
mourning orange
Mmmm, Persona 3 is sexy. Looking forward to it
Handy's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/22/2010 17:24
Handy
That is incredibly awesome of you!
mourning orange's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/22/2010 17:37
mourning orange
@Jon B
No worries, mate. I don't need new code written; I edited the background to include the umbrella. Thanks again.
Amnesiac's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/22/2010 18:39
Amnesiac
Yeah, I'm having the aforementioned problem of the weather icon not appearing. All of the other skins that use yahoo weather seem to be working fine, so I don't know what the problem is.
Jon B's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/22/2010 19:08
Jon B
Persona 3 one should be up within the hour on my DeviantArt. I will probably also update the Persona 4 one, as I got some old code I wrote to work while getting the "DARK HOUR" thing to display on the Persona 3 one.
Jon B's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/22/2010 20:04
Jon B
Blog changed to show Persona 3 one, and THE ORIGINAL PERSONA 4 SKIN HAS BEEN UPDATED - IF YOUR WEATHER DOES NOT WORK, THERE IS AN ALTERNATE VERSION NOW AVAILABLE.
pedrovay2003's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/22/2010 20:17
pedrovay2003
Holy shit, getting the Persona 3 one now.
Jon B's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/22/2010 20:33
Jon B
@Pedrovay2003
Be sure to report back about the moon phase feature - it works 100% on my end, but I'm not sure if I'll need to bundle something else with it to get it working elsewhere.
theredpepperofdoom's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/22/2010 20:45
theredpepperofdoom
I try loading the Persona 3 skin on Rainmeter (I'm running Enigma) but it's not working for me for some reason. Help?
Amnesiac's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/22/2010 20:59
Amnesiac
Same problem as theredpepper. It doesn't seem to load at all. The P4 skin fix didn't do anything for me either.
Jon B's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/22/2010 22:34
Jon B
@theredpepperofdoom + Amnesiac
Have you installed the font that comes with it?
Jon B's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/22/2010 22:44
Jon B
Persona 3 one has been patched to fix possibilities of the Dark Hour appearing in regular hours and a possible fix for it not appearing, the font should now load locally without having to be installed.

The Persona 4 one uses simplified code - provided that you installed the Fixed version from the .zip file, it should work fine, I just cleared my entire Rainmeter of everything - including Enigma - and it still works. Make sure you've removed absolutely all instances of the skin then try again. Make sure that you're installing the "No Weather Sync" version.
Amnesiac's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/22/2010 23:15
Amnesiac
Nevermind, the P3 theme is working now. No problems as far as I can tell.
Jon B's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/22/2010 23:16
Jon B
^ From above, the font still requires installing, there's now a readme with both files. Persona 4 one has been simplified, removed the non-working weather code.
There are now NO dependancies, the files should work completely independently of whether you have other files installed or not.
Jon B's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/23/2010 01:53
Jon B
Mockup of next little project. This sort of thing hasn't really been done before to much of a degree, and I suspect that a fair few people will have a lot of use out of modding it.

May take a break and make a Dtoid-themed RSS feed.
Excel-2011's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/23/2010 08:37
Excel-2011
Now if only someone can come up with a Windows 7 gadget that emulates that clock that heralds the Dark Hour.
Excel-2011's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/23/2010 08:38
Excel-2011
@Jon B:
If a program crashes or some system error comes up, have the text box display a healing request line.
DF's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/23/2010 09:23
DF
I got the P3 one running, but just a question all the same: Is the "next full moon" bit your work? I ask because it says the next one is going to hit sometime in April. On the 91st. >_>;
vApathyv's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/23/2010 11:19
vApathyv
Dude, this thing is friggin awesome, nice work.

Also looks really nice with the appropriate background.
Jon B's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/23/2010 14:50
Jon B
@Doomsday Forte
The "next full moon" bit uses borrowed snippets of code from the Enigma Moonphase thing. Try opening up the .ini and changing it to your localization - by default it's "GMT +0".

@The-Excel
Don't tempt me.

@vApathyv
That looks amazing, man.

I'll just ignore the fact that the weather display thing glitched.....
Piellar's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/23/2010 15:10
Piellar
I LOVE YOU JON!!! <3<3<3

Thank you.
vApathyv's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/23/2010 17:10
vApathyv
@Jon B

Yeah...I haven't quite figured out how to get that working properly for me. Then again, I'm also not even sure which of these .ini files I'm supposed to put my weather info into either.
Jon B's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/23/2010 18:47
Jon B
@vApathyv
Nah, I'm on about the fact that two icons are loaded for some reason. For now, I've removed the weather functionality, it didn't seem to work for many people at all. Before, it would use a Rainmeter .dll to autodetect where you were, but for most people it was sending an odd response back and didn't load anything as a result.
vApathyv's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/23/2010 19:10
vApathyv
@Jon B

Either way, malfunctioning weather icon or otherwise, it's still a very impressive job well done and you deserve praise brotha. Besides, the random glitchery looks cool sometimes, so I consider it an off-handed bonus.
DF's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/23/2010 21:47
DF
Well, I tried what you said to do. I noticed there were two places to input a timezone and a +/-x for the hour difference between where I am and GMT, and I input EST and -5 in each one, and still I'm not having it work properly. NEXT now reads 4.4. I've tried looking through the ini but I'm not finding anything that I readily understand that may help.

Sorry to be a nuisance. The theme works great otherwise!
Russell Butiong's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/23/2010 21:49
Russell Butiong
i was able to set it up but for some reason its 12 hours late though; any suggestions? pls
DF's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/23/2010 21:49
DF
*now it reads 4.39. I think it's counting down instead of giving the date. D:
Jon B's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/23/2010 21:55
Jon B
@Doomsday Forte
FYI: That's actually intentional, it mimics Persona 3's actual behavior. Boss fight every full moon, and it counts down to it.

@Russell
Which one are you referring to, the Persona 3 or Persona 4 one? Is it the "Time of Day" that's displaying wrong? It's fetching values directly from your system clock, so I don't see how that could happen.
If it's the moon phasing, then you need to open the .ini file and change
"
zone="GMT"
TimeZone=0
"
To whatever your respective timezone is, making sure to add the + and - symbols on.
Russell Butiong's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/23/2010 22:00
Russell Butiong
never mind i figured it out. anys Jon B fantastic work, the P4 HUD is so sexy on my desktop XD
DF's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/23/2010 22:20
DF
Ohhh. Man, has it really been that long that I didn't catch that? >_>;
Jon B's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/23/2010 22:25
Jon B
Hehe. I could actually look into custom making one that shows the date though if you really want. The Persona 4 dock is giving me a royal headache right now.
DF's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/23/2010 23:08
DF
Nah, that's okay. I'm just trying to figure out what the .34 part of "4.34" refers to. I could understand hours, but then that's over 24. Unless I royally screwed something up during the setup, all I know is that it keeps going down steadily, but I'm just trying to figure out what this little bit means. I noticed it's on your example too "NEXT: 5.5"

If I were to ask for a custom one, I'd be fine with just "NEXT: #" and that's it. Unless you can explain what exactly falls past the dot. =P
Jon B's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/24/2010 00:39
Jon B
I did originally try that, but I haven't figured out how to mask the data retrieved from the site. I'm pretty sure it refers to percentage through the day... or something like that.
This is the link data's gathered from and it doesn't say.
DF's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/24/2010 10:22
DF
Yeah, I looked at the code and it's whatever the %1 pulls, and I'm rather certain it's just a decimal. Like, three and 88/100ths of a day left until the next full moon. That explains why it never seemed to go above 100 at any time, and also explains why the last zero would disappear at times.

I know jack about coding, but would it make sense to force the display to round up? Like, if there are 3.88 days left or any number that has a decimal, it forces display to 4/the next-highest whole digit? Of course, I have no idea how to do that. Still odd it displays only up to two decimal places--oh. Wait, hang on. I see it now.

Full Moon
2010
04
28
12
18
[3.87]





2006-03-29

I bracketed the number I'm seeing right now from the link provided. It IS coming from there, so it's not the code apparently.
Jon B's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/24/2010 15:30
Jon B
Well, in theory what you'd do is call the %1 measure into a formula, and perform a mathematical equation onto it in order to round it up.
Just so happens though, that I'm terrible at maths. :/
DF's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/24/2010 19:50
DF
I wouldn't know how to get it to work with coding. Just something that looks for any non-whole number and rounds that up to the next highest whole number. But I have a feeling that may very well break something else entirely.

Ah well. At the very least, you can tout it as "exceptionally accurate down to two decimal places" in terms of the next full moon. :P
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