Alteros3D is a 3D/2D graphic viewer and mediaplayer with customizable interface. The program allows viewing any 3D files (3DS, VRML, TrueSpace, LightWave and many other formats), as well as 2D graphical files (PSD, TIFF, PNG, JPEG, BMP, GIF and many others). Built-in text editor allows viewing and editing TXT and RTF files.

Alteros 3D can also display HTML files and other documents via OLE interface (requires installed Internet Explorer).

Built-in mediaplayer plays DVD-video disks, Video and Audio files.

Program interface can be easily changed by skins. Besides, Alteros 3D has its own desktop format - ADESK. Using ADESK files you can create graphical interfaces with different commands and links. ADESK files can be used as Alteros3D start up interface also.

Alteros 3D allows to open any number of documents simultaneously. Convenient task manager, designed in Windows Taskbar style, is used to switch between opened documents.

System requirements:

- Pentium-300 or better;
- 64Mb RAM  or higher;
- video card with High Color (16bit) or True Color (24bit) mode;
- Windows9x/ME, Windows NT/2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista.
- DirectX 9 or higher for Video, Audio, DVD-video playback functions.

What is new in version 2.81:

1. Fixed bug in browser resizing procedure (black screen after start).
2. Fixed bug in "Next/Prev picture" procedure.

What is new in version 2.8:

- Added Network option in the Top Level.
- New "Mirror" effects for pictures.
- Added "File Properties" command in right-click menu of filebrowser.
- Added "Fit by Width" and "Fit by Height" commands for image files.
- Fixed bug in "Print" command.
- Fixed bug in "Customize Filters" commands.
- Added "hide browser" option in "Skin Extras" settings.
- Added "showhide browser" and "barmode" internal commands to show/hide filebrowser.
- Other changes, corrections and bug fixes.

Program features:

- Recognizes and opens the following 3D file formats: 3dm, 3dmf, 3ds, asc, ase, cob, dwg (dwg2000 is not supported), dxb, dxf, geo, iv, lvs, lw, lwo, max (limited support), md2, md3, mdl, mts, ndo, obj, objf, off, peo, prj, pro, rax, scn, spx, stl, tim, wrl, x.

- Thumbnails preview of 3D files.

- Copying of 3D image rendering result into the clipboard.

- Rotation and scaling of 3D objects. Alterations of lighting, transparency, material type and display mode of 3D objects, as well as many other settings for 3D scenes.

- Displays 2D graphic formats: bmp, btn1, btn2, btn3, dib, emf, gif, ico, icl, jpe, jpeg, jpg, pcx, rle, tga, wmf, psd, tiff, png, ppm, cel, iff, rgb, fli/flc (only first frame), pic, tim.

- Thumbnails preview of 2D files.

- Saving files in BMP and JPEG formats.

- "Zoom in" and "zoom out" modes, screen floating (using only a mouse, without keyboard). 

- Setting any image as Desktop Wallpaper.

- Copy/Paste functions.

- Slideshow mode.

- Graphical effects (Flip, Invert, RGB-transitions, Hue-Saturation-Lightness,Brightness-Contrast, Mirrors).

- Resize function for graphical files.

- Crop function for graphical files.

- Integration with Brodyaga.com photosite.

- DVD-disks, Video (AVI, MOV) and Audio (MP3, WMA, MIDI, WAV) files playback. This function requires DirectX 9 or higher installed on computer.

- Display and edit text files: txt, rtf. All unrecognised types of files are opened with text editor. 

- Browser for viewing HTML files (requires installed Internet Explorer). The browser allows viewing any OLE-documents (for example: MS Word, MS Excel files) .  This option requires relevant programs to be installed at PC.

- File manager allows opening, sorting files and supports all major file operations (delete, rename, copy, move).

- Multilanguage interface. Supported languages: 

Afrikaans, 
Arabic, 
Czech, 
Chinese (simplified)
Chinese (traditional)
Danish, 
Dutch, 
English, 
French, 
German, 
Hungarian, 
Indonesian, 
Italian, 
Japanese,
Korean,
Latvian
Malaysian, 
Russian, 
Polish, 
Portuguese (Brazilian), 
Spanish, 
Swedish, 
Turkish

- Command input box allows to enter filenames, directory, http:// address or any internal command.

- Alteros 3D Skin format allows to change the view of any element of Alteros window or add new custom buttons to any toolbar of the program. 

- ADESK file format allows creating of custom desktop panels in Alteros window. Users can create panels of any size, add graphical or text buttons, as well as any amount of decorative images. The program offers a lot of internal commands, that can be assigned to any interface button.

- Autostart option allows to set any file (including ADESK) as automatically launched file when the program starts up.

Registration of Alteros3D 2.81 is free for all registered users of Alteros3D 1.xx, 2.xx.