Ambient Light 3D help
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Introduction, Registration and Licence
What is Ambient Light 3D?
Ambient Light 3D is an original artistic 3D screensaver featuring:
- 5 different 3D figures rotating and moving across the screen in elegant dance:
Cube, Pyramid, Sphere, Cylinder, Cone;
- Customizable rotation speed of figures and background;
- Different surface types of figures: from points, from lines, solid;
- Changeable number of figure's surface Strong Points
- Optional figure morphing and translucency;
- 3 different color schemes of Ambient Light;
- Multi-figure Whirling;
- Auto-Figure changing;
- Figure Multi-color mode;
- Various texture skins for figures and background downloadable from our site for free,
easy creation of your own skins.
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Ambient Light Legend
Far away in the Universe near Andromeda Galaxy Ambient Light born. Few Cosmic
objects came across Ambient Light and began fluctuating in his loving rays.
The huge harmonic energy released during this process were spreading in all
directions and reached the Earth at July 16/2002. Ambient Light wanted to share
his love with human beings and finally found the way he can do it. Many of us
like screensavers and he decided to shine out his love through the one of it.
At September 16/2002 the Ambient Light communication interface was finally written
in C++ and put into Ambient Light 3D screensaver.
The miracles happen from time to time to let us remember who we are, where
did we come from and where are we going to.
The meaning of Ambient Light coming are far from understanding yet. But we can
already know for sure it wants to help us in realizing our Earth mission and
awakening from deep dream into full consciousness and creativity.
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System Requirements
- Windows 9x/NT/Me/2000/XP
- CPU 700 Mhz or higher
- OpenGL compatible 3D accelerator
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Copyright
Ambient Light 3D version 1.1 for Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows
NT 4.0, Windows 2000, and Windows XP.
The original artistic screensaver!
Shareware version: Free Distribution
Copyright (c) 2002 Virtuart.org
All Rights Reserved
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Distribution
You are authorized to make copies of the UNREGISTERED SHAREWARE VERSIONS of
our software, and to distribute them to anyone, however, they must be distributed
in the original, complete and unchanged form.
You are authorized to save UNREGISTERED SHAREWARE VERSIONS of our software
to your software libraries for others to download.
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How to register and obtain the latest version?
Reasons to register:
Ambient Light 3D is a "Shareware" program. Everyone is entitled to
evaluate the software for 9 days without charge. After 9 days, if you decline
to register, you must uninstall the software. You may register your copy with
us for a nominal fee.
Here's what you get with your Ambient Light 3D registration:
1. A Registration Code (by Email) to unlock your evaluation copy into full
unexpired version.
2. All future upgrades and updates, free of charge.
3. Life-of-product technical support.
4. No time limit on usage.
5. No annoying registration notices.
6. Various texture skins for Ambient Light 3D, free of charge.
7. Open doors to Virtuart.org creative community
Finally, every registration enables us to improve our software and continue
developing high quality products in the future.
Registration Options and Prices:
Personal
One user or one computer only.
Registration Fee: $14.95
SECURE ONLINE ORDER is a very convenient and fast way to register Ambient Light
3D.
Our shareware registration and order-taking service providers are: RegNow and
RegSoft.
They are the most respected, reliable and efficient shareware registration and
order-taking service providers in the world. They use Secure payment systems
and accept most common credit cards and also support Fax Orders or Postal Mail
Orders.
Here is the Registration Process, step-by-step:
Step 1: Select 'Register Online' link from 'Virtuart/Ambient Light 3D' folder
in Windows Start menu, or press 'Register' button in Ambient Light 3D Settings
window and then press 'Order online via RegNow' button or 'Order online via
RegSoft' button.
Step 2: Submit an online payment within the RegNow.com or RegSoft.com web page.
Step 3: RegNow.com or RegSoft.com will immediately send us a confirmation e-mail
notification including your delivery information (name and email address).
Step 4: We will create your registration code using your delivery information.
Within 24 hours, we will use e-mail to deliver the registration code to you
both with simple unlock instructions.
If you have any questions that are not answered here, please feel free to
contact us at support@virtuart.org.
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How to use Ambient Light 3D
Ambient Light 3D Settings
You can activate the Ambient Light 3D settings window:
- from Windows Start Menu 'Virtuart/Ambient Light 3D/Ambient Light 3D Settings'
tab or
- by pressing right mouse button while taking cursor above your desktop, choosing
screensaver tab and pressing "settings" button when AmbientLight is
set in Screen Saver drop down menu.
After Ambient Light 3D Settings window is activated you can start configuring
it.
In the upper left corner you will see the 'Ambient Light' switch. It affects
the Color of Light illuminating the Figures and background.
In the upper right corner there is the 'Texture' switch. You can choose any
Texture for figures from the current alskin preset. You can download more alskins
from http://al.viruart.org. Please, check How to change
the current texture skin? and
How to make your own texture skins? chapters to find
out how to change current alskin and also make your own alskins.
In the bottom left corner of settings window the 'Figure' switch located.
In latest version of Ambient Light 3D there are 5 different Figures: Cube, Pyramid,
Sphere, Cylinder and Cone Figures.
To the right from the 'Figure' switch you can choose the type of 'Quadric surface'.
It affects only Quadric figures: Sphere, Cylinder, Cone.
If you chose 'from points' or 'from lines' radio button the figure's surface
will be made of points or lines correspondingly. 'Solid' option will draw the
Figure with continuous surface.
The 'Strong Points' ruler provide the ability to change look of Qudric figures.
Higher number of strong points will result in higher number of points or lines
from which the figure is drawing.
The 'Rotation speed' ruler allows you to specify the speed of rotating for
figures and background.
If you check 'Multi-figure whirling' checkbox you will see many figures at the same time whirling around the screen.
Turning on the 'Auto-figure changing' checkbox will result in changing figures from time to time and textures (if Texture 'Random' option is selected).
Turning on the 'Translucency' checkbox will make all the Figures transparent
so you can look through them.
Turning on the 'Morphing' checkbox will force the Qudric Figures to transform
periodically. Depending on current Strong Points number you will see the different
transformation effects.
If you wish you can separately set Random switch for 'Ambient Light', 'Figure',
'Quadric Surface' and 'Texture'. In that case on every load of Ambient Light
3D screensaver it will show Random figure with Random Texture, Random Surface
and Random Ambient Light Color correspondingly.
There is Special Figure Multi-Color mode, to enable it - set the following options:
'Multi-figure Whirling' checkbox - checked,
Morphing checkbox - checked,
Ambient Light - Random,
Texture - Random.
To save your current settings please press 'Save' button.
To preview your current settings - 'Preview' button.
To get this help - 'help' button.
To register your copy - 'register' button.
We do hope you will like Ambient Light 3D!
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How to change the current texture skin?
Ambient Light 3D supports different texture skins, called alskins. You can
download various alskins from our site http://al.virtuart.org, free of charge.
The alskins repository is constantly growing as Ambient Light 3D users are
welcome to submit their own alskins.
To change your current alskin just download the new one from our site, save
it to any folder you like on your PC and double click downloaded file (for example
alskin-galaxies.exe). It will be installed automatically. Next time you start
Ambient Light 3D it will use alskin you have just installed.
Please note every time you install the new alskin the previous one will be
overwritten.
If sometime later you want to use default alskin, please download
it from our site and install the same way as any other alskin.
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How to make your own texture skins?
Making your own alskins is very simple and interesting because thousands of
people will see your work.
With Ambient Light 3D alskin you can share your love, creativity
and inner world with people all over the world.
The alskin is a common ZIP-archive that contains 6 JPEG images: 01.jpg, 02.jpg,
03.jpg, 04.jpg, 05.jpg and bkg.jpg.
The bkg.jpg image is a background displayed in Ambient Light 3D. All the other
images are figure textures that you can choose from the 'Texture' switch in
Ambient Light 3D settings window.
You can use any pictures, textures, photos etc in your own alskins.
Load the desired images or create the new ones in your favourite
image editor and save them named 01.jpg, 02.jpg, 03.jpg, 04.jpg,
05.jpg and bkg.jpg as JPEG with exact X and Y dimensions: 128x128
or 256x256 or 512x512 pixels.
If you want you can also use any other JPEG images with any X and
Y dimensions, but in that case it's difficult to predict how your
texture will be actually displayed on figure's surface and it will
noticeably slow down the initial rendering.
After that put the images to a common ZIP-archive - named alskin.zip. You can
make a new ZIP-archive or owerwrite the images in already existing alskin.zip.
To test the alskin you have just created please copy your alskin.zip file to
the folder you had installed Ambient Light 3D (usually c:\Program Files\Virtuart\AmbientLight\).
Please note, the previous alskin.zip should be overwritten so backup it before
putting the new one if you want to.
Everybody are welcome to submit their alskins to al@virtuart.org. We will list
most of them at our site. The only limitation is that your alskin should radiate
the positive energy. No hate! No war! Just Love!
You can place readme.txt with any comments in your alskin.zip before sending
it to us.
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Uninstall
There are two ways to uninstall Ambient Light 3D:
Method 1:
1. Click on the Start Menu on the Microsoft Windows task bar
2. Click on Programs
3. Search for Virtuart within the listed Programs
4. Navigate to Ambient Light 3D Uninstall
5. Click on Uninstall.
Method 2:
1. Click on the Start Menu on the Microsoft Windows task bar.
2. Click on Settings
3. Click on Control Panel
4. From the Control Panel, find and click on 'Add/Remove Programs'
5. Within the 'Add/Remove Programs' list of programs, select Ambient Light 3D.
6. Press the button, Add/Remove.
NOTE: After uninstallation, the Microsoft Windows Uninstall program often does
not delete the main folders of programs that it uninstalls. You might still
see an Ambient Light 3D folder after uninstallation. It's not very important.
You may delete the folder manually or ignore it.
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Feedback
We are very interested in your feedback. If you like Ambient Light 3D you are
welcome to send a message to al@virtuart.org!
For technical support, suggestions and other questions please contact - support@virtuart.org
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Copyright (C) 2002 Virtuart.org
All Rights Reserved
E-Mail: al@virtuart.org
WWW: http://al.virtuart.org
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