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- PROCESSING THE PICTURE
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- The stereoscopic main panel has four buttons:
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- {[000,5,0] START } starts the processing.
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- {[000,5,0] GAME } starts a simple 3-D game.
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- {[000,5,0] HELP } starts this User Guide.
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- {[000,5,0] QUIT } ends the program.
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- When you click {[000,5,0] START }, a file selector appears and asks you to select a
- picture for the background. Click {[A14,0,7]here} if you don't know how to use a file
- selector. Remember that all the pictures you load into Stereop-Jr must be
- made from the Stereop-Jr Template. Click {[P04,4,7] here } to see the Template. They
- must be standard 8-colour 320x256-dot low-resolution IFF pictures, and the
- picture must be drawn with only the last four colours.
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- After you select the background picture and click the {[000,5,0] OK } button, the
- picture appears. A bar appears in front of it and asks you if it's the
- right picture. If it is, click the {[000,5,0] YES } button (or press RETURN or the
- Y key). If it's not, click {[000,5,0] NO } (or press ESC or the N key). If you say NO,
- the main panel returns, and you have to start again.
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- After you select the background, the middleground and the foreground, the
- screen goes black, and a bar appears that says "Splitting the BACKGROUND".
- There's a narrow blue band that shows how the processing is going and a
- button that says {[000,5,0] STOP }. If you click it (or press ESC), the work stops,
- and you go back to the main panel.
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- Meanwhile, you can put on your 3-D glasses and watch the background being
- split into its red and blue components.
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- Then, after the middleground and foreground are split, the picture appears
- with the middleground in front of the background. Another bar appears.
- This one says "Overlaying the foreground", and you can watch while the three
- layers are assembled.
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- When the 3-D picture is finished, a bell rings and the file selector appears
- again. How much time the processing took is printed at the top of the file
- selector. Find a drawer to put your picture in, type in a title and click
- the {[000,5,0] OK } button. (Don't try to save your pictures on the StereopJr disk --
- there isn't enough room.)
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- If you get tired of looking at your picture being processed, you can go to
- Workbench and do something else by pressing LEFT AMIGA-A. Come back the
- same way.
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- EXTRA STUFF
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- Instead of clicking the buttons on the Main Panel, you can press keys on
- your keyboard:
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- Press S or RETURN for {[000,5,0] START }.
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- Press G or SPACE for {[000,5,0] GAME }.
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- Press H or HELP for {[000,5,0] HELP }.
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- Press Q or ESC for {[000,5,0] QUIT }.
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- The F keys at the top of your keyboard also do things:
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- Press F1 to look at a picture. A file selector appears. Select an IFF
- picture file up to 1023x1023, up to 64-colours. Press a key or mouse
- button to stop looking at the picture.
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- Press F2 to see who wrote the program.
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- Press F3 to see the Introductory Screen (to adjust your monitor).
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- Press F4 to F10 to play a musical note and watch the 3-D buttons go
- up and down.
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