❓ What exactly is the Atmosphere Engine?

The Atmosphere Engine is a lightweight desktop customization layer for Windows. It allows you to place interactive "widgets," live looping wallpapers, and even AI companions directly onto your desktop environment without the need for complex software hooks like Rainmeter.

Our philosophy is "Zero Coding Required." You can simply drag and drop widgets, or use our web-based Creator Studio and AI Automator to generate highly aesthetic, fully-functional desktop modules by just typing what you want.

📦 What is an .atmo file?

Because the Atmosphere Engine provides a sandbox for running web technologies (HTML/CSS/JS) as native widgets, we created the .atmo format to ensure safety, modularity, and high-performance sharing.

An .atmo file is a highly optimized, encrypted zip container. Inside it contains a manifest.json defining the physical boundaries of the widget, an index.html containing everything visually required, and potentially local media like videos or fonts.

This format is entirely sandboxed. .atmo files do not have direct access to your Windows filesystem, reducing the security risks typically associated with third-party software executables.

🛡️ Privacy Policy

Your desktop is your private sanctum. Atmosphere Engine operates with a profound respect for local privacy.

1. Local First: The engine does not hook into your file explorer, application usage, or keystrokes. Atmosphere widgets only have access to specific, sandboxed system statistics (like CPU or RAM) explicitly through the window.atmosphere bridge.

2. AI Generations: When utilizing the AI Automator inside the Creator Studio, your prompts to generate desktop widgets are securely relayed through our backend API directly to Google Gemini's servers for processing. The output code stays entirely yours.

3. Data Collection: We do not track your desktop usage or store telemetry. We only temporarily store widgets on our servers if you explicitly push them through the "Publish to Store" pipeline.

🎨 The Creator Economy & PRO Subscription

Creating beautiful elements shouldn't be hidden behind massive paywalls. The foundational Atmosphere Engine and browsing the Marketplace is Free.

If you wish to use the AI Automator to generate infinite custom widgets effortlessly, you consume "Credits." While you receive 50 starting credits for free, heavy generation requires our transparent Atmosphere PRO subscription, which covers the intensive AI overhead.

🧩 How to compile a Full Theme Kit

Want to bundle a matching Live Wallpaper, a Taskbar Dock, and a Clock into a single download? The engine natively supports installing multiple widgets from a single `.atmo` file effortlessly!

Step 1: Use the Creator Studio to design and compile your individual components (e.g., download wallpaper.atmo, dock.atmo, and clock.atmo).

Step 2: Unzip your individual `.atmo` files so you have their raw raw component folders.

Step 3: Create a brand new empty Master folder (e.g., MyCyber_Kit) and drop all of your individual component folders directly inside it.

Step 4: Zip your MyCyber_Kit folder and rename the file extension to .atmo! When a user drags this Master file into Atmosphere, the engine will unpack it, discover the nested structure, and instantly spawn the entire suite seamlessly onto their desktop.

💻 What kinds of Widgets can I build?

Because the Atmosphere Engine natively wraps incredibly fast webviews into borderless, transparent desktop windows using the .atmo package format, you can build practically anything that can be rendered with standard HTML, CSS, and JavaScript!

1. Functional Desktop Widgets

These are floating, transparent tools that snap to the desktop. Build minimalist Pomodoro timers, Live Cryptocurrency tickers, animated weather modules, system audio visualizers, or sleek holographic clocks.

2. Immersive Live Wallpapers

These run strictly on the bottom layer of the desktop. Implement procedural WebGL shaders (like falling matrix neon rain), cinematic looping video sequences, or dynamic environments that change lighting automatically based on the real-world time of day.

3. Desktop Mascots & Companions

Because you can completely strip the background color away, you are not limited to rectangular windows. Code pixel-art characters that walk across your taskbar or floating neon tech rings that slowly rotate in the corner of your screen.

🔑 Bring Your Own Key (BYOK)

Atmosphere Engine supports a Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) model for power users who want maximum control over their AI generation costs and privacy. Instead of consuming Atmosphere ✦ Credits, you can plug your own API keys for providers like Google Gemini directly into the Creator Studio.

By using BYOK, your generation prompts are sent directly from your local machine to your chosen AI provider. Atmosphere does not intercept, log, or charge you a premium for these requests. This means you can generate an infinite number of widgets using your own billing limits from the provider. To set this up, simply click the "Settings" gear in the Creator Studio and paste your secret API key.

🧠 Local AI Generation (Ollama & Gemma 4)

For ultimate privacy and entirely cost-free widget creation, the Atmosphere Engine Studio natively supports localized AI runtimes! You can generate complex, reactive desktop widgets utilizing your own GPU hardware without even connecting to the cloud.

Setting up a Local Engine

Step 1: Download and install Ollama for Windows.

Step 2: Open your Windows Command Prompt or PowerShell and execute: ollama run gemma4:26b. This will download Google's highly capable Gemma 4 model directly to your hardware.

Step 3: Once downloaded, keep Ollama running in the background. Open the Atmosphere Creator Studio and click the Model Setup panel.

Step 4: Select Local API (Ollama) as your provider, ensure the endpoint is set to http://localhost:11434, and type gemma4:26b into the Target Model field.

You can now prompt the AI Automator to build widgets and live wallpapers without consuming any cloud credits!