Tale of Tales
The Endless Forest
Phase Three of an ongoing project
by Auriea Harvey & Micha? Samyn
Version 3.41
January 2012
For more information, please visit http://Tale-of-Tales.com/TheEndlessForest.
INSTALLATION
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The Endless Forest is installed by default in
c:Program FilesTale of TalesThe Endless Forest 3
LICENSE
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The Endless Forest screensaver as well as its multiplayer service are available free of charge thanks to the support of the Mus? d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds and Design Vlaanderen. It is forbidden to make any commercial use of this application or any product derived from it (including screenshots) without prior consent from the authors.
You are free to distribute this application if you don't make any changes to it and if it includes an unaltered version of this readme file. We would, however, appreciate notification if you plan on doing such a thing on a large scale. Please email us:
[email protected].
Tale of Tales reserves the right to do anything it pleases with this application.
Tale of Tales can not be held responsible for any damage installing or running this application may cause.
All copyrights pertaining The Endless Forest belong to Tale of Tales BVBA, Belgium.
CONTROLS
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MOUSE
Left click on floor: go there
Left click + drag: move avatar in direction of cursor
Left click on handle (bottom center): show/hide the Action Strip
Left click on Action Strip button: perform action
Right drag: rotate & zoom the camera
Scroll Wheel: zoom
KEYBOARD
Esc key: Options screen
Up cursor key or W: step forward
Down cursor key or S: walk backwards
Left and right cursor keys or A & D: turn
Up + Down cursor key: walk forward slowly
Up + Shift cursor key: run
P key: save screenshot in C:Program FilesTale of TalesThe Endless Forest 3screenshots (CTRL+P: without interface)
H or SPACE key: hop (when standing still) or jump (when running)
The game can also be controlled with a Joystick. Control instructions are available in the Options screen. You can access the Options screen by clicking the "O" button on the lower left hand side of the screen or by pressing the ESC key. You can exit the screensaver by selecting the "X" button in the lower right hand side of the screen or by choosing Quit from the Options screen.
Click the short bar in the center at the bottom of the screen to make the buttons visible.
The functions keys F1 to F12 can be used for actions. To bind a function key to an action, move your cursor over the corresponding button and press the key. To use the hotkey, make sure your cursor is not over the buttons. You can assign any of the emotion and activities as well as roar and listen to the function keys.
You can remove the screensaver through Start Menu/All Programs/The Endless Forest 3/Uninstall The Endless Forest
TIPS
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You can acquire magic spells by
-eating the pine cone that falls out of a pine tree after rubbing against it (antlers spell)
-eating from the mushrooms on the side of trees (mask spell)
-laying down next to a sleeping deer for a while (skin spell)
-letting your deer sleep in a mushroom circle (body spell)
Which incarnation of the spell will appear, cannot be predicted.
The effect of spells cast on players who are not logged in, is only temporary.
Players who use old clients (grey deer with broken antlers) are immune to magic.
You can only carry one spell at a time.
To remove spells cast on you, open your Spells submenu in the actionstrip and select the spell you want to remove. This will remove the latest spell in that category and thus works as an undo feature that allows you to go back in time. To remove all the spells at once, go and take a swim in the pond.
There's a shortcut to your screenshots folder in Start Menu/All Programs/The Endless Forest 3.
KNOWN ISSUES
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-Switching from full screen mode to windowed mode may cause the application to freeze. You can close it with ALT+F4. When you re-open it, it will run in a window.
-Using ALT-TAB to switch to other applications does not work very well and may cause the screensaver to crash when running it fullscreen.
-When the cute preview in Display Properties/Screen Saver/Settings is enabled, changing the Wait time in Display Properties/Screen Saver may prevent Windows from being able to show the Display Properties window again. A system restart solves this problem.
-Badly calibrated joysticks not in use can prevent input from mouse or keyboard. Disable the joystick in Options/Control.
-The screensaver will not work if the application is installed in any other folder than C:Program FilesTale of TalesThe Endless Forest 3 but you should be able to run the standalone version from anywhere.
-F10 seems to be reserved by Windows. Pressing it freezes the game. Avoid using it as a hotkey.