Manual
Frontmatter
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Sections
- Tutorials
- Booting up for the first time
- Running the Setup wizard
- The ARES interface (HUD)
- Accessing menus of yourself and others
- Guests and consent
- Users, Managers, and Owners
- Bans and disabling self access
- Chat: How to disable the chat redirect (green/object text)
- Chat: How to change your name
- Chat: How to alter the speech marker (chat sound)
- Chat: Why use the chat redirect?
- Power: Recharging and battery health
- Power: The power control (subsystems) menu
- Using personas
- Damage, overheating, and repair
- Chat: Manipulating chat messages
- Command line basics
- Updating ARES to a new version
- Shutting down and removing ARES
- Configuring ARES for a military unit
- Configuring ARES for a sex robot
- Configuring ARES for control freaks
- Dealing with bugs and unexpected behavior
- Next steps
- Operating ARES
- Power & Subsystem Management
- Identity Name, gender, color, and other informative metadata
- Security
- Input Chat control, chat filtering, and commands
- Devices
- Personas
- Navigation Following, teleportation, and forced movement
- Combat & Damage
- Heat, Pressure, & Moisture
- Electromagnetic Radiation & Interference
- Filesystem Introduction
- Settings Storage
- Scripting ARES
- Managing Installed Software
- Interface Customization How to rearrange, hide, or retexture parts of the ARES user interface
- Policies
- The ARES Operating System
- Architecture & Comparison with Companion
- Message Passing How system events, text, and commands are processed
- The System Monitor
- Light Bus Hardware
- Baseband Networking
- Interface Architecture How the HUD, menus, and alerts are structured
- Damage & Repair
- Effector Restrictions
- Power Calculations
- Thermodynamics
- Pipes
- Files
- The Database
- The Kernel Reset Process
- Input and Exec
- Package Management
- Command Reference
- System Extensions
- Restraint RLV relay
- Hierarchy/XNMS Domains Centralized configuration for multiple avatars
- Sexuality TESI for ARES
- Warrior
- Dive Telepresence
- myNanite Uplink Web Administration
- Diag Immersion System Simulated malfunctions, malware, and other system anomalies
Appendices
- Development
- The ARES Software Copyright License (ASCL)
- Device Development
- Application Development
- Contributing to ARES
- Packaging Sofware for Distribution
- Hosting Remote Sources
- Device Compatibility & Certification
- Best Practices for ARES Development
- Reference Charts
- Power Subsystems
- Security Rules
- Common Commands
- Daemons
- Batteries
- Link Numbers
- Other Help Resources
- Filenames & Extensions
- Companion Equivalents
- Device Compatibility
- ARES Controller Info Release timeline and individual features
- Troubleshooting Checklists for dealing with common ARES problems
- ARES Packages & Package Servers