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The full version also lets you install new butterflies to fly on your desktop, and it lets you have more than 10 fluttering around your screen at a time!

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The following butterflies are currently available for this screensaver. Click the links to download new butterflies to add to your screen saver. New butterflies will be added as often as possible, so check back regularly! Butterflies marked as HD are high detail, LD are lower detail, but they all look great!

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.

Asagimadara Butterfly (HD - Included with screensaver)	Great Orange Tip - Male/Female Differ (HD - Included with screensaver)	Omurasaki Butterfly (HD)
HimeGifu Butterfly (HD)	African Monarch (LD)	Peacock Butterfly (LD)
Apollo Butterfly (LD)	Gulf Fritillary (LD)	Painted Lady (LD)
Blue Pansy (LD)	Eastern Festoon (LD)	Burgundy Fritillary (LD)
Green Spotted Triangle (LD)	Indian Leaf Butterfly (LD)	Lime Swallow Tail (LD)
More Soon!	More Soon!	More Soon!

Well, I've been thinking of doing this for a long long time. I even have an old screen saver from way back in 2000 where I just have one butterfly flying in circles. But it always looked a bit lame so I never bothered to finish it.

Here we are nearly 6 years later and I've finally put together a butterfly screen saver that I really like! As with the Something Fishy screen saver, I've used the best 3D models I could get my hands on. But I've mixed them up a little. You see I think this looks best with heaps of butterflies, but with the high detail models you need a really fast PC to make it to work. So I have gotten hold of a mix of both high detail and medium detail butterflies. So hopefully we can all enjoy a great mix of colour without killing our PCs. That's the idea anyway, we'll see what happens. I've used just the high detail models in the free trial version, and I have about 25 lower detail models to release as add-ons when I get the time, along with a few more high detail ones, so we're looking at a screen saver here that will be jam packed with a heap of different butterflies for you to enjoy.

I spent ages trying to make them actually fly like butterflies. Sort of random and fluttery. When I looked at a couple of other butterfly screen savers they all flew in a very basic "flap... flap... flap" fashion which made them look like a wind up aeroplane kinda deal. Still not sure I've got it quite right, but I do think it's cool to watch. And the way they land on both the desktop and the "glass" of your monitor I think looks nice too. I dunno, I just like it!

I may change this screen saver later, because I'm not sure if it needs something else added to it or what, but I do like watching it as it is now so I figured I would release it and see what you guys think.

If you spot any bugs (aside from the ones flying around the screen) please let me know!

Enjoy!

v1.0 - 14th February, 2006 - Original Release
Real time 3D butterflies flutter around your desktop.
Use a screen grab, your wallpaper, or any random image as the background.
Butterflies cast shadows on your desktop, and they land on it too!
Additional butterflies available for download to add to the full version.