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  Installation

You can install Wildfire with the supplied script from the cd.
Of course you can install it yourself, too.

Copy the Wildfire Directory for your Language and your Processor
(FPU/No-FPU) on your Harddisk.
Assign WF: to the Wildfire Directory on your Harddisk.
After that locate the file "envarc/Wildfire.config" and move it into
"envarc:".  That's it.



No matter which way you installed Wildfire, inside the program
you have the possibility to creata thumbnails (small previews
for the effects which will be displayed in the `ADD` window
of the processor) for your screendepth. We installed thumbnails
in 24 bit which will be rendered for your screendepth in realtime.
Just start the processor and gon into the `add` window and scroll
around with your cursor-keys. If the update of the pictures
is to slow for you, just render the thumbnails again.

Just choose your screenmode where you want Wildfire to run on and
press the function-key `F10` and select the macro:

wf:Macros/createExamples.rexx

and follow the instructions.
The same goes for the Transition-Examples, which are small movies
and are played inside the transition-maker to show you a preview
of the to-be-generated effect.
You can create them with the same macro as above, but be careful,
on slow Amiga`s this may take some hours!


  File-Hierarchy

    Wildfire
    +---system               -private files
    |   +---plugIns            *PlugIns-rootdrawer
    |   |   +---operators        operators for the Processor
    |   |   +---general          general PlugIns
    |   |   +---system           PlugIn-preferences and private data
    |   |   ---savers           savers and loaders
    |   +---images             *icons for the icon-manager
    |   +---filmstrips         *filmstrips for the Transition-Maker
    |   +---thumbnails         *previews for the PCAdd-Window
    |   ---help               *some text-files
    +---alpha                -alpha-images
    +---trash                -temporary files
    +---expressions          -expressions and symbols for the calculator
    +---profiles             -size-profiles of animations
    +---YAFAOptions          -YAFA-Compressor-settings
    +---annotations          -annotations and text-files
    +---convolutions         -matrix-settings for the Convolve-PlugIn
    +---doc                  -documentation and online-help-files
    +---envelopes            -envelopes for the Processor
    +---filmstrips           -Filmstrips
    +---images               -Images
    +---macros               -ARexx-Macros
    +---processes            -Processor-scripts
    +---projects             -Video-projects
    +---sessions             -Converter-sessions
    +---tools                -additional tools
    +---variables            -Variables for the Processor
    ---windows              -Custom-windows