Hardware supported

System requirements.

OpenGL installed . Hardware-acceleration recommended.

3DTop will work on any modern PC.

To use 3DTop.

Left mouse-button is for selecting and dragging things around if an icon is selected, and changing your view if no icon is selected.
Control-key + left mouse-button is for rotating things.
Control-key + left mouse-button is for selecting multiple objects also.
Control-key + left mouse-button followed by simultaneously holding down the right mouse-button will let you select a distance when you're selecting multiple objects with the rubberbox....
Shift-key + left mouse-button is for strafe-mode or resizing objects.
Shift-key + double-click is for unity-sizing an object (size = 1.0).
Cursor up/down will move you resp. forward and backward.
Cursor left/right will let you look around.
Shift + cursor up/down/left/right will move you up/down/left/right.
Left mouse-button and dragging followed by simultaneously holding down the right mouse-button will change the distance of the icon when an icon was selected or else the height of your view-point.
Right mouse-button is for selecting colors, pop-up menus and cancel-stuff etc..
Paintings can only be dragged by selecting the bottom- or top-edge, sizing by dragging one of the other edges.
I believe that's it.
OOPS, most important, quit/exit by key "Esc" on your keyboard or "ALT"+"F4".

Some tips.

Icons such as "My Computer" and "Network" are icons that the program can not find on the normal desktop. Therefore you'll have to make shortcuts of these in your 3DTop folder.
Shortcuts or files can also be dragged onto the 3dtop.
Icons that are deleted from 3dtop are deleted from the normal desktop also (however...see below)!

!- If you don't want the icons of the normal desktop to be used, you can alternatively copy "3DTop.exe" to a directory of your choice where you can then store and use your shortcuts or files (copy them from your normal desktop for instance). If you've done that you'll realize that it is only a small step to surfing your entire computer with 3DTop, but that will take some extra time in programming, while the practical use of it is questionable -!

-Windows NT users, if you haven't done it already, set "smooth edges of screen fonts" in "Display"-> "Plus" to on (checked). This will make all text look better.

Read the FAQ too

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