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- Welcome to the Deluxe Paint IV Animation Tutorial,
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- This short tutorial will hopefully have you designing a ball that bounces
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- accross the bottom of your screen, although it will be very basic, it is
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- only designed so that you can get to grips with the basics of Animating
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- with DPAINT IV.
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- Lets begin.....
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- First Bootup your Deluxe Paint IV disk and select 320x256 for the screen
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- format, this is also called low resolution and takes up less memory than
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- all the other screen modes, now select 8 colour mode, again this is to save
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- on both memory and diskspace (Animations tend to be very large).
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- Now Draw a background on the screen using the filled square icon at the
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- right hand side of the screen, now select BLUE for the pen colour and drag
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- a square accross the top half of your screen and press the left mouse button.
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- You should now have a Blue and Black screen.
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- Now change the pen colour to green and using the same icon as before, drag
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- a square accross the bottom of the screen and press the left mouse button.
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- You should now have a very basic field and sky type picture.
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- The reasons we have done this are,
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- 1. So that it looks nice!
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- 2. Any thing that is drawn before we tell the computer we are going to do
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- an animation is put on all frames of the animation, so we do not have to
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- keep drawing backgrounds all the time.
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- Now lets tell the computer that we want to do an animation.
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- First press and hold the right mouse button, you should now have a menu bar
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- visible at the top of the screen, go up to the ANIM menu and select FRAMES,
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- there should now be a small "SUB MENU", go to this and select SET #...
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- A requester will appear with a number one in it, click on the number one
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- with the left mouse button and then press "0" and then [RETURN], now click
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- on OK with the left mouse button.
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- You now have TEN frames of Animation with your field picture on them.
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- If you now press "J" on the keyboard the screen will go blank as you are
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- taken to the spare screen. On this screen select the filled circle icon
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- (which is next to the filled square) and drag out a circle about an inch
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- accross in whatever colour that you like (I've used RED).
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- Now pick up your circle with the pickup-brush icon (next to the "A" icon)
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- and press "J" again. You will now be back at the field you drew earlier.
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- If you now move the ball to the left hand side of the screen and also
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- move it three-quarters of the way down and press the left mouse button,
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- you will have created your first frame of animation.
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- Now without moving the mouse AT ALL, press the number "2" on the keyboard
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- and then move the ball about 1 inch diagonally up to the right, then press
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- number "2" again. Do this procedure one more time and then start to move the
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- ball diagonally down to the right (to produce a bouncing type effect) and
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- press the left mouse button and then press the number "2" again. Follow this
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- new procedure two more times and then go up diagonallyagain pressing the
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- left mouse button and also pressing "2".
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- When you have done this, go to the ANIM menu again and select CONTROL and
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- then select SET RATE, a requester will pop up with a number in it, change
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- this number to "10" and then click on OK with the left mouse button.
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- So that is your basic animation finished, all you need to do now is press
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- number "4" on the keyboard and watch your little ball do its funky stuff!
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- As I said earlier,this is only a very basic animation, but with trial and
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- error you can now start to make some more complex animations ! !
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- If you do some Animation that you and your freinds think a particularly good,
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- why not send it in to me, you never know, you may see YOUR animation on
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- these disks along with the likes of Mr. Eric Shwartz ! ! !
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- Have fun creating those Animations!
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- Darren.
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