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Windows 8 Start Screen custom background WIP

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Ok I recently bought a new laptop (unfortunately not out of choice) and although the start screen does take a LOT of getting used to, it's actually now one of my favourite parts of Windows 8. Unfortunately on standard Windows 8 you can't customise the start screen, you can only choose between a few presets that Microsoft give you. But if you download a program called Decor8 (it's free for 30 days) then you can use it to change that start screen. I have been working on this almightily difficult graphic for nearly a month now, and I've only got a few more characters to add!! I'm thinking Chell from Portal 2 and maybe Alan Wake from, well from Alan Wake, but I'll need one more on top of that. But other than that it's almost finished!!!
By the way, all the models shown are real models I've made for XNALara, most of them I've edited from someone else's release but Alyx, Lightning and Link are my models customised to make into cell-shaded cartoon models. I will release them all once I'm done, they look pretty cool :P
So from left to right you have: Lara Croft from Tomb Raider: Underworld; Desmond Miles from Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, Commander Shepard from Mass Effect 2, Link from a Legend Of Zelda game (I forget which) Alyx Vance from Half-Life 2, The Prince Of Persia from Prince of Persia 2008, Lightning from Final Fantasy XIII and Dante from DmC. Please let me know what you think!!!

Also feel free to download and use this, you will need to download Decor8 from interwebz, and you will need to set the background to Parallax Scrolling.
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KoDraCan's avatar
You can still used XNALara in Windows 8? I was under the impression that Windows 8 didn't run XNA framework program, making XNA/XPS unusable! I really hope the program still works for Windows 8.