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- !ReadMe file for Texture Garden v1.00
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- Contents
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- !TexturGdn - The main Texture Garden application.
- Texture Garden is an algorithmic texture generation program.
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- Docs - A directory of documentation in the form of text files.
- There is also the !Help file inside the main application.
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- Extras - Contains a syntax-colouring mode for the !Zap text editor.
- This is designed specifically for displaying texture files.
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- Textures - Contains a number of text descriptions of textures.
- These may be dragged into !TexturGdn windows to display them.
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- Getting started
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Run the "!TexturGdn" application and drag a few text files from somewhere
- inside the "Textures" directory into its main window.
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- Cosmetic improvements
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- There are a number of sprites which Texture Garden will use if they are
- in the WIMP's sprite pool. I used to supply these with the program, but
- I was advised that putting them into the WIMPs sprite pool without the
- user's permission was bad practice. Some of them are so common that
- although they are not in ROM, most people will easily be able to source
- copies. If you have sprites named "ptr_hand" or "ptr_menu" then Texture
- Garden will use them. Also, "small_diro", "file_fff²" and the various
- other files referred to in section 04 of the "Docs.Technical" file will
- be used if they are available.
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- Notes
- ~~~~~
- Texture Garden works on all major Acorn RISC systems except RISC-OS 2.
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- It should be able to operate from a read-only medium, though you will be
- unable to save your preferences or store your palettes.
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- Upgrading
- ~~~~~~~~~
- Textures demonstrating any new features are stored in "Textures.Features".
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- Those upgrading from previous versions of Texture Garden are advised to
- examine the "Docs.History" file to get some idea of the changes.
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- Also they should bear in mind the following points:
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- ...from version 0.57 - 0.59
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- The "Textures" directory is unchanged.
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- ...from versions 0.01 - 0.56
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Probably simplest to update all the files.
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- Enjoy.
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- © Tim Tyler 1996.
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