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- DEMO VERSION iS INCOMPLETE, Modules as well as certain functions are
- missing! Prism Paint II, the modular painting and animation tool.
-
- Hi! to anyone who uploaded or got this DEMO somehow or the other.
-
- This product is the PRISM PAINT II, despite what you may see at first.
-
- This is mainly because the people at ARTIS Software had a product
- before called ARTIS 1, 2 and 3.0. What then happened was that worked
- together to produce the new Prism Paint, which in fact should be more
- appropriately called Artis Animator. Considering that Prism Paint 1.01
- was really nothing spectacular (or 1.5b) and that it has nothing to do
- with the original Prism Paint. However Prism Paint (1.1 or 1.5) user's have the
- option for an upgrade path.
-
- Ok, I will now give a brief description how to do a few things. However
- consider that this is not exactly a full manual and I will be very scarce
- in explaining a few things.
-
- Before you start you are required to input th maximum amount of frames
- you wish to edit, this is also a kind of protection. So if you input
- 30 Frames, then that is your maximum frames, period.
-
- Prism Paint (or ARTIS Animator, whatever you like) has now got the
- added option to expand the memory. Prism Paint will reserve a certain
- amount of memory just for artis (memory protection), so you need to
- change the settings eg. 85% is default, if you have 99% then you make
- the most out of it (of course, take into consideration acc's and other
- utilities, especially when you run MultiTOS).
-
- Try out the functions, just click on them. You will see that each
- function has a number and name to it, in the manual these are exactly
- referenced and described. The On-line Help is available but not
- incorporated in th demo version, saving is disabled as well as the
- picture is frazzled with DEMO VERSION.
-
- If you click on the ARTIS logo you can move around the screen with the
- toolbox.
-
- On the top left hand corner of the menu you can select those to get
- more functions. The Pencil has basic draing tools, the next option
- has all the programming tools (You can program your own efects), the
- fire is the extended effects tools, try out the bubbles, they are really
- quite neat. The three air brushes in the extended mode have a true color
- mixing effect if you run it in True Color NOVA Modus only. It might
- work with other TC boards, can't confirm it yet as that brush was
- designed on a NOVA.
-
- The last option are various types and modes of Cut&Paste.
-
- The Info box is the animation information box (e.g. ping pong, loop's
- and fps etc.)
-
- the magnifiying glass is designed in our view perfectly for user
- friendliness. Also virutal screens are incorporated.
-
- Try this:
-
- Boot up n a 640x480 screen rez and run prism paint. Then go to option 14
- set parameter, which is on the bottom left corner (the arrow). There
- select change to eg. 1024x768. Not press OK and if you select the pointing
- finger, move view option then while clicking on the screen you can
- literally drag the screen, like you would a piece of cardboard on a
- wall, ok, terrible analogy....but who cares :)
-
- In runs in all modi, st, tt, falcon + gfx boards with vdi.
-
- Now, the demo version is incomplete (Duuuuhh! most of them are!). Not
- all the modules are present e.g. the TGA and PNT modules are missing as
- well as the optimised GIF module (as the GIF module in th sys folder
- doesn't really cut it as it re-sort's the palette).
-
-