| Feature
Requested |
3DFishTank
BETA |
The Leading Fishtank |
| DirectX Base
Version |
DirectX 8.1 |
DirectX 6 |
| Environment
and Fish Type |
Full
Interactive 3D Fish and Tank |
2D
Background with 3D Fish |
| Intricate rock formations with caves (so fish can swim
through) |
Possible with 3D |
No/Not
Planned |
| Limit
the CPU Usage. |
Yes |
? |
| Camera 'Panning
and Movement Speed' |
Yes |
No/Not
Planned |
| Maximum
frame rate setting |
Yes |
Yes |
| User-defined backgrounds |
Yes |
No/Not
Planned |
| Trigger an external program on launch |
Soon |
No/Not
Planned |
| Replaceable or external sounds |
Yes |
No/Not
Planned |
| Freely moving the
camera anywhere in the tank. |
Yes
(Anywhere) |
No/Not
Planned |
| Camera 'Panning to Follow a Fish' |
Yes |
No/Not
Planned |
| Camera 'Behind and Following a Fish' |
Yes |
No/Not
Planned |
| Clock-based Tank Lighting (light during the day, dark at
night) |
Soon |
No/Not
Planned |
| Other Reef Backgrounds (Photos) |
Yes |
No/Not
Planned |
| User Can Relocate Bubble Column (with a position slider) |
Yes |
No/Not
Planned |
| Adjust Width of Bubble Column (1x, 2x, 4x) |
Yes |
No/Not
Planned |
| User
Movable Coral /Objects |
Yes
/ Under Development |
No/Not
Planned |
| Sea Floor Backgrounds (Photos) |
Yes |
Yes |
| Seaweed or Kelp |
Yes |
No/Not
Planned |
| Dynamic
lighting that follows the time of day |
Soon |
No/Not
Planned |
| Volumetric lighting with particles |
Yes/Under
Development |
No/Not
Planned |
| Random bubbles from the rocks |
Soon |
No/Not
Planned |
| Ability to Feed the
fish |
Yes
/ Under Development |
No/Not
Planned |
| Ability to Tap the glass |
Yes |
No/Not
Planned |
| Moving mouth and gills (breathing/yawning) |
Soon
(Medium) |
No/Not
Planned |
| Individual fish
behaviour |
Yes |
No/Not
Planned |
| Schooling Fish
(>3 x neons or Cardinal?) |
Soon
(Easy) |
No/Not
Planned |
| Variation in fish (use of bump maps and random texture
changes) |
Soon
(Easy) |
No/Not
Planned |
| Fish nibbling on coral |
Soon
(Hard) |
No/Not
Planned |
| High-speed chasing, backing up, vertical movement |
Soon
(Medium) |
Yes |
| Pictures of each fish on the Select screen |
Soon
(Easy) |
Yes |
| Saveable themes or "tanks" |
yes |
Yes |
| Mated pairs of fish |
Soon
(Maybe) |
No/Not
Planned |
| Recycle new fish after a specified # of elapsed minutes. |
Maybe |
No/Not
Planned |
| Fish digging out stones and through sand |
Soon
(Medium) |
No/Not
Planned |
| Sleep cycles for some fish |
Already Done |
No |
| Snails (crawling on the glass) |
Soon |
No |
| 'Fish can't leave the screen' toggle |
Already Done |
No |
| 'Fish substitute when leaving screen' toggle |
N/A |
No |
| Ability to create your own fish |
Already Done |
No |
