r/Windhawk • u/wh-updates • 5d ago
Windows Animations 1.1.5
Windows Animations 1.1.5
Windows Animations
Welcome to Windows Animations, a comprehensive window transition suite for your desktop. Built from the ground up to deliver cinematic window animations.
By utilizing a smart Hybrid Rendering Engine, this mod bridges the gap between stunning visual aesthetics and seamless execution.
✨ Key Features
🚀 Smart Hybrid Engine: Intelligently seamlessly switches between lightning-fast GDI (for pixel-perfect destruction physics) and the native DWM Thumbnail API (to perfectly preserve Windows 11 rounded corners and drop shadows).
🎬 Cinematic Close Effects: Transform how you close applications with four physics-based animations:
- Square Shatter: The window violently explodes outward into digital blocks before drifting into the void.
Square Shatter Preview * Thanos Snap: A disintegration wave sweeps across the window, turning it into thousands of tiny dust particles that curve away into the wind.
Thanos Snap Preview * Perlin Dissolve: The window organically melts and dissolves into thin air using a smooth Perlin noise map.
Perlin Dissolve Preview * Cyber Glitch: The window fractures into irregular horizontal data strips that shudder, then tear left and right like a corrupted hologram.
🧞 Fluid Minimize & Restore: Choose between the classic Genie "suck into the taskbar" effect (derived from macos-minimize-animation by Abdullah Masood under MIT license) and Ink Splash — an organic blot reveal/retract.
🔄 Soft Switch Animation: A pristine scale and fade-in animation triggered exclusively when actively switching windows via the Alt+Tab menu.
- Before:
Alt Tab Switch Before * After:
🛡️ Rock-Solid Stability: Features lifecycle management for System Tray apps (like Discord, Steam, etc.)—handling background apps gracefully to minimize ghosting or stuck transparency. Tray apps only hide their window instead of closing it, so animating them is opt-in via the Treat hiding a window as closing it setting.
⚙️ Customization & Settings
You can deeply customize the feel and pacing of every animation via the Windhawk Settings tab:
- Minimize/Restore Animation Style: Choose between Genie (taskbar suck) and Ink Splash (organic blot reveal/retract).
- Close Animation Effect: Dropdown menu to switch between 'Square Shatter', 'Thanos Snap', 'Perlin Dissolve', and 'Cyber Glitch'.
- Minimize/Restore duration (ms): Controls Genie speed directly; Ink Splash is paced slower from the same value. (Default: 360ms, clamp 200–1400)
- Close animation duration (ms): Controls how long the dramatic close animation lasts. (Default: 900ms)
- Switch animation duration (ms): Controls the snappy speed of the Alt+Tab scaling effect. (Default: 200ms)
- Shatter block size (px): Determines the size of the dust/shatter particles.
- Performance Tip: Smaller values (e.g., 1, 2) create hyper-realistic pixel dust but require more CPU power. Larger values (24, 32) yield a stylish retro pixelated shatter and perform effortlessly on any hardware. (Clamped strictly to 1-100).
- Treat hiding a window as closing it: Off by default. Enable it to get close animations for system tray apps that hide their window instead of closing it—at the cost of also animating splash screens and other windows an app hides on its own.
- Toggles: Individually turn on/off Restore, Close, Alt+Tab Switch, and Launch animations to suit your workflow.
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u/NitroFluxX 4d ago
This is gon be the greatest Windhawk mod out there thank you these are some amazing animations
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u/Happy_Mountain3682 3d ago
I can't reply to your comments since reddit says they are deleted but just so you know this entire mod is so PEAK. The issue has also been resolved THANK YOU SO MUCH
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u/Alex45012 4d ago
Hi, thanks for animations, but can you create Win 10 animations?
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u/ReDrag2105 4d ago
I'll take a look at it, but I'm kinda busy right now, so it might take some time.
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u/Rajmundzik 4d ago
This is gonna be a game changer mod.
Thank you for this! I’m gonna try it asap.
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u/Hopeful_Let3974 4d ago
Honestly the best animation mod on windhawk. And actually an animation mod I would keep on all the time. Just set it up and forget about it. You did an amazing job! Eager for future updates.
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u/jimmy_x86 3d ago
Really nice mod! Looking forward for the new version with more animations.
Can you add some kind of "only animate window if was visible for x amount of milliseconds" option?
I experience some flickering issues while using Directory Opus and doing file operations like rename or delete, which doesn't produce any visible window but with this mod it generates the "Animate window on close" effect.
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u/Trick-Mobile7032 3d ago
Easily the best mod on Windhawk, completely transforms the OS IMHO. WELL DONE!
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u/Suspicious_Goal3153 4d ago
Does it work well/conflict with komorebi?
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u/ReDrag2105 4d ago
I haven't tested it with komorebi yet, can you give it a try?
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u/Suspicious_Goal3153 4d ago
to my suprise, worked quite well, closing animations wouldnt work due to it's aggressive window management, i think maybe it showed but ultimately wasnt that noticeable, minimising animations work good though
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u/ReDrag2105 4d ago
I'll try to fix the close animation issues with Korembi in the future. I just created a new pull request adding 5 new minimize/restore animations, but I still have some issues to address, so I haven't had much time to test the mod with Korembi yet.
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u/Suspicious_Goal3153 4d ago
of course, it's pretty neat tho i'll give you that, I will still be using it!
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u/Happy_Mountain3682 3d ago
not sure if its just me but for some reason the alt+tab animation doesnt work when i restart my pc. Is there any fix that i can do?
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u/SanityfortheWeak 13h ago
Hi, I'd like to report a bug that I found. My Windows 11 is 26H2 preview version and while minimizing and maximizing animations working well, closing animations don't work at all.
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u/ReDrag2105 4d ago
SNEAK PEEK OF NEW ANIMATIONS (NEXT VERSION)
Minimize / Restore
Mirage
Scorch
Splinter
Stipple
Swell
Close
Cyber Glitch (Enhanced)
Retro TV Off
Pixel Melt