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3D Interior Designer 2 Lite
Welcome to 3D Interior Designer 2 Lite, a fully functioned
tool that allows you to re-create and design your home
environments. Designed for the budget conscious this CD-ROM
has all the objects and most of the functionality of its
bigger brother 3D Interior Designer 2.

We hope you enjoy the product, and if you'd like to take
your designs further, that you consider taking advantage
of the special voucher enclosed in the case and upgrade to
Interior Designer 2 at a competitive price. Here are some of
the added features which you may wish to take advantage of
in Interior Designer 2:

* The ability to alter the scale of textures and also import
  new ones.
* Enjoy the special functionality of some of the objects,
  watch the tv, light the fire, open doors/windows etc.
* Take basic control of the external environments.
* Have ID2 work out how much carpet or wallpaper you need
  for your rooms.
* The ability to import new objects downloaded from the
  Internet.
* See the effects of ambient lighting on your room.
* Record a walk-through of your room and play it back at
  your leisure.

Have Fun!


To install:
* Select Run from then Windows Start menu.
* Select the CD ROM drive of your PC, type :\Setup.

You should have a line something like this: D:\Setup, where
D is the drive letter of your CD ROM drive.

* Now follow all of the on-screen instructions. During this,
  you can choose another directory to install the program,
  and the position of the shortcut to start the program in
  your Windows Programs menu.

Getting started:
During any part of the editing process, you can check which
editing screen you are in by checking the title at the top
of the screen. You can move between these screens by using
the icon on the far left of the screen.

Note that as you move the mouse pointer over buttons and
icons on the screen, a text description will appear at the
foot of the editor screen.

The following notes are a rough guide only, detailed
assistance is available from the Help option once the
program is installed.

Note that the 3D button takes you to the 3 dimensional world,
the 2D button takes you to the 2 dimensional world, rather
than displaying which mode you are currently in.

1. Build Your Room
When you first run the program, you will be presented with
the Build your room editing screen. Note the "Build" icon
on the left is highlighted.

This section is the first step in room design. You may select
from a variety of initial layouts from the layouts display at
the top of the screen, after which you can customise the room
shape, making it as simple or as complex as you like. You can
use the grid tool for more precise measurements, if required.

Once your room shape is complete, choose doors and windows
from the comprehensive object categories in the top left of
the screen.  Unlike all the other editors, all the work here
is done in a plan view environment, but by clicking the 3D
button you can view a rotating 3 dimensional simulation of
your work.

2. Decorate Your Room
Click on the "Decorate" icon to enter this editor.
This editor allows you to decorate your room in either a 2 or
3 dimensional environment.

You can actually walk around the room and decide upon the
colour and texture schemes you are going to use and see the
results instantly.

The layouts display will now show all the different paint
colours, wall textures, wallpaper and fabrics available. The
sub-categories (brick, wood, tile etc.) are shown in the
object categories section.

At any time in your design, you may return to Decorate Your
Room in order to change textures, or even change the fabrics
on furniture you have placed into your room.

3. Furnish Your Room
Click on the "Furnish" icon to enter this editor
The third section is where the real fun starts!  In here, you
may bring in a large variety of household furniture,
appliances and other objects from many different styles and
cultures.  Don't worry yet about where to position them, just
pull in the type of furniture you are interested in and drop
them into a space within your room. To look for all the
different types of furniture available, click on the different
tabs of the layouts display in the top left of the screen.

Some objects belong on the floor only, others are designed to
hang from the ceiling whilst some only reside against a wall.
If you bring in these objects, 3D Interior Designer 2 Lite
will handle the more detailed placement for you.

Once you have placed all your objects roughly in place, you
can enter the Arrange Your Room editor to rotate and adjust
the positions of the furniture more precisely.


4. Arrange Your Room
Click on the "Arrange" icon to enter this editor.
Now you have furnished your room, you can position the
furniture.  There are many ways to move and rotate objects
into their correct position, but they are all done in this
section.

Objects may be positioned in a number of ways. The 2D View is
an ideal starting point to quickly move your furniture into
position. You can pick up and move objects from one side of
the room to another.  You may also rotate objects providing
there is space to do so.

Once an object is selected, you may move it, either, using
the four movement controls on the tab book at the top of the
screen or directly by dragging with the left and right mouse
buttons.  Left mouse gives you direct movement control whilst
right mouse provides you with rotation. Once you have got
your objects into roughly the correct position, enter the 3D
view.


5. View Your Room
Viewing your room is where everything comes to life and is
the ideal section to show your room off to your friends and
family.

6. Saving your room
You can save your room at any time using the File menu at
the top left of the screen. Use Save as... to save your room
as a particular file name, Save will save your room as the
last used file name.


For more detailed Help
Select Help - Contents when running 3D Interior Designer 2
lite.