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When you register the Ultimate 3D Aquarium Screen Saver, you get:
More fish! You'll be able to download and add more fish to your aquarium with ease. See the instructions below.
More 3D background scenes! You can also download new fully 3D environments for your fish to enjoy! Again, see the instructions below.
No fish restrictions! At the moment you're stuck with only 4 fish, and only 2 different types. When you register you can have as many as your CPU can handle, and there's loads more species for you to download and enjoy.
No nag screens! Nothing pops up at the start, nothing pops up in the corners, nothing pops up at all. All you get is the action!
But more importantly, you'll help support Useless Creations, which means I'll be able to keep developing nifty screen savers for Mac OS X!

All this for just US$9.95! How can you resist?!

Click here to register now!

The following fish are currently available for this screensaver. Click the links to download new fish to add to your desktop aquarium. New fish will be added as often as possible, so check back regularly!

Please note: These add-ons only work with the full registered version, or if you are a full UC3D member! Info on registering is just above on this page.

The following full 3D background themes are currently available for the full version (click to download):
Moai Circle (Easter Island Heads!) - Included with full version
Halloween Cemetery
Skull and Bones
Christmas Theme
Many more on the way!

From the moment I released the Something Fishy: 3D Desktop Aquarium screensaver last year, I started getting requests for an aquarium screensaver with "proper backgrounds". But the Desktop Aquarium was meant to be exactly that, an Aquarium made out of your Desktop. That's why it shows your current screen in the background and gives the effect that your monitor is filled with water.

However, I did like the idea of a proper 3D aquarium. Almost all aquarium screensavers are basically flat! The fish swim side to side and the camera never moves because the backgrounds are basically created out of flat images. They can look really good, but they get a bit boring if you ask me. So I started working on a whole new aquarium screensaver with proper 3D environments. But better than that, I made it so you can download new environments, just like you can download additional fish! I don't know of any others that let you get new fish so easily, let alone whole new 3D environments for your fish to swim around!

I've also made it so that the camera can move, very slowly, around and through the environment, just to show off the fact that it's all really 3D. I've designed the tanks to be viewed from different angles, so the camera will move around and stop in certain spots so you can watch the fish. I'm loving this thing!

The hardest part has been trying to stop the fish swimming thru the environment. I've spent months trying to train them to go around things, but they don't always listen. I bet if I didn't mention it you wouldn't have even noticed, but for those of you who were about to email asking why they occasionally swim thru things, I just wanted to say that I'm still working on it. I am quite happy with the way they move now, so I wanted to release this thing and see if you guys liked it. But I am continuing to work on the collision detection.

My aim with the downloadable 3D background scenes is to give you an aquarium that can have different themes depending on the time of year. So for Halloween you have the fish swimming around a cemetery, for Christmas you have the fish swimming around a snowy village or whatever, and so on and so on. That way you can have the same basic screensaver all year round without getting tired of it!

The Ultimate 3D Aquarium Screen Saver is the first fully 3D aquarium screen saver in the world to give you all these features, and it's still priced and the usual Useless Creations ridiculous cheapness! Gotta love that!

Enjoy!

v1.0 - 13th October, 2005 - Original Release
Real time 3D fish swim around a real time 3D environment.
Additional fish and 3D background themes can be downloaded and added to the full version.
Camera moves through the 3D fish tank environment.
Fish avoid swimming into obstacles.
Fish cast shadows on the environment (requires compatible video hardware).