Copyright: Ulead COOL 3D Version 3.0 ReadMe Help


Welcome to Ulead COOL 3D 3.0

ReadMe FIRST!

March, 2000

This ReadMe document provides basic information about Ulead COOL 3D 3.0. Please read this file before you start using Ulead COOL 3D 3.0.

Table of Contents

1. Overview

2. What’s New in Version 3.0?

3. Before You Start

4. System Requirements

5. Recommended Drivers

6. Troubleshooting

7. Contacting Ulead

1. Overview

Ulead® COOL 3D™ 3.0 lets designers create high-impact, animated 3D titles and graphics for Web pages, video titles and presentations. The best selling product in its category, Ulead COOL 3D delivers exciting creative features and new tools that give users more power to create professional-quality output in less time.

2. What’s New in Version 3.0?

6 outrageous new plug-in effects

Create and edit vector objects in Path Editor

Generate real spheres, cubes, cones, pyramids and cylinders

Group and manager objects with Object Manager

GIF animation output enhancement

Output to QuickTime™ file format

Output to RealText® 3D file format

Support for more video input and output options

Control when objects appear for individual key frames

Move the first and last key frame for plug-ins

Import DirectX files

Preview rendered file faster

3. Before You Start

Before you start, please make sure that you have registered with Ulead Systems. By registering you will receive advanced notice of special offers and upgrades.

Ulead COOL 3D 3.0 works with Windows® 95 OSR2, Windows® 98, Windows® 2000 and Windows® Millennium.

Ulead COOL 3D 3.0 cannot be installed on the same computer with a previous version of Ulead COOL 3D. If you are an upgrade user, the installation program for Ulead COOL 3D 3.0 will first ask whether you would like to uninstall your previous version of Ulead COOL 3D before installing version 3.0.

For Windows 2000 users, make sure that you are logged on as an Administrator before you install or uninstall Ulead COOL 3D 3.0.

Please make sure that you have Microsoft DirectX® 6.0 or above correctly installed on your system. The DirectX 6.1 is included on the CD-ROM version, or you can download the latest version from Microsoft's web site.

4. System Requirements

Intel® Pentium® compatible processors (Pentium 166 with MMX™ or above recommended)

Microsoft® Windows® 95 OSR2 or higher or Windows® 2000

32 MB of RAM (64 MB RAM recommended)

80 MB available hard drive space (100 MB recommended)

DirectX 6.0 driver or above

HiColor or True Color display adapter and monitor

CD-ROM Drive

Window® compatible pointing device

IMPORTANT NOTE:

Ulead COOL 3D 3.0 will not work with Windows NT4 because Windows NT4 does not support the DirectX 6.0 driver. (This program requires DirectX 6.0 or above to run.)

Ulead COOL 3D 3.0 will not work with the first release of Windows 95 (Windows® 95 OSR1). To check your version of Windows, go into the System folder in your Control Panel. If you see Windows 95 4.00.95a at the top of your General tab, then you have the first release installed.

5. Recommended Drivers

In order to take advant age of all of the functions in Ulead COOL 3D 3.0, we recommend you install the following drivers:

If you want to output your work in QuickTime format, you'll need Apple QuickTime™ player. The QuickTime driver is included on the CD-ROM version, or you can download the latest version from Apple's web site.

If you want to output your work in RealText format, you'll need RealNetworks RealPlayer®. The RealPlayer driver is included on the CD-ROM version, or you can download the latest version from RealNetworks' web site.

6. Troubleshooting

On some machines, your display card driver may cause conflicts with DirectX. Please download and install the latest version of your display card's driver if you experience any problems.

If you encounter any difficulties working with path-based files, try to reduce the complexity of the object in the Path Editor.

If your Display Card supports Direct 3D (or DirectX) but Use HAL Rendering is unavailable on the Image menu, change your display to 16-bit or 32-bit color.

Some display cards may have problems with DirectX, which may cause your display or computer to behave strangely. This is only a problem when using HAL Rendering and can be solved by turning this feature off.

The order of applying plug-in effects may cause different results because of the plug-in execution order.

When you work with large or high-resolution documents, you may zoom out to achieve a faster display in the working window.

Ulead COOL 3D 3.0 allows you to save GIF, JPG and GIF animation files directly in Ulead SmartSaver Pro. When you want to use this function, please make sure that you have Ulead SmartSaver Pro installed before installing COOL 3D 3.0.

You can insert Ulead COOL 3D objects from within FrontPage Editor. When you want to use this function, please make sure you have FrontPage installed before installing Ulead COOL 3D 3.0. This function is not available in FrontPage Express.

If you want to use the presets from Ulead COOL 3D version 1.0, 2.0 or 2.5, you first need to export them as an .uez file. Then import them into version 3.0 by right-clicking on a thumbnail in the EasyPalette™ by selecting the Import command.

7. Contacting Ulead

Your comments and suggestions to improve our software are most welcomed. Please send them to support@ulead.com.tw. Thank you very much.

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All rights reserved. Ulead, Ulead Systems logo, EasyPalette and Ulead COOL 3D are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of Ulead Systems, Inc. Intel, Pentium and MMX are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of Intel Corporation. Microsoft, Windows, DirectX, DirectX Media, and/or other Microsoft products referenced herein are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. QuickTime and the QuickTime logo are trademarks used under license. QuickTime is registered in the U.S. and other countries. Adobe, the Adobe logo, and Acrobat are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated. RealText and RealPlayer are either registered trademarks or trademarks of RealNetworks, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. The RealPlayer is included under license from RealNetworks, Inc. (c)1995-2000. RealNetworks, Inc. All rights reserved. All other product names and any registered and unregistered trademarks mentioned are used for identification purposes only and remain the exclusive property of their respective owners.

This software is based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group.