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(this is actually addressed to Ben) I agree with Henry. You could shrink the DONE button and make room for two more: "Add another region" and "Intersect with another region" or some such. (I'm sure you can come up with less verbose button names) This way, one could keep defining…
Guillermo, the problem is probably caused by the brush falling exactly on the object's surface. Move the brush away from the object by a pixel or so and everything should look fine. Blaq! – via Whap!
Karl, in the back of AmigaWorld you'll find a 2-page spread full of tiny ads, one of which is from a video production house advertising several videos: L.A. Siggraph, the making of Todd Rundtgren's music video, and "Uhhh… excuse me, Todd?", a rebuttal of Todd's complaints re: Amiga bugs by…
#Bug in IP?
Message #25316
Ben, I may have found a bug in IP. I did a Stretch To Clip, rectangular in shape, at the bottom of an image. I then selected the clip as Primary Buffer and tried to do an Area Fill on the bottom row of pixels. Guess what — it can't…
Kevin, when the time comes, please let us know about your Siggraph exhibit! Not everyone is going to Las Vegas, or even worse — is going, but later in the year. Like me, for example. Drat. Blaq! – via Whap!
I agree — Lou could simply run a 2-page article in AW with a tiny-print sidebar listing the contents and tech stuff. It would certainly help sell tons of the tapes, and AW could be forgiven this bit of self-indulgence by pushing the "look how much Amiga animation has evolved"…
John, after speed-reading that book on Adobe Photoshop, I'm _positive_ that a tutorial book on IP would be a delight to all. Maybe the closest thing would be an archived thread, updated quarterly. (With the hints & tips stating clearly which version they apply to) Blaq! – via Whap!
Ben, index? Contents??? What kind of a computer manual is this!! Haven't you guys done your research? Computer manuals should _never_ have an index, and hopefully no table of contents either. Users should absorb all knowledge about the program through osmosis. B^D P.S. I suggest you check out the Electronic…
I spent the afternoon at a bookshop, reading a wonderful tome called the Adobe Photoshop Handbook. (By Bantam Books, if memory serves me right) If you're ever in the market for additional features to include in IP, get this book! There are some things in Photoshop that would cause tumescence…
Ben, Hmmm… I was wondering about having a toggle to show coordinates somewhere, either in screen pixels or in terms of the buffer being displayed. This could come in handy if I need to line things up or something. The transparency map will do wonders for Chroma Key. Right now,…
Scott, just as I said when quoting the manual: you can only position an object interactively when in the last frame of the timeline. You described how to change the position in the Action script. Of course, leaving the timeline to one frame works, because any information in frames extending…
Fred, that is a very helpful suggestion indeed. I know John Pendergrass is gonna jump in at this point and tell us how his Colorburst allows him to do this kind of animation in one step, with the Amiga animation overlaid on top of the 24-bit Colorburst background. 🙂 Unfortunately,…
Louis, thanks so much for uploading those gorgeous creations in full HAM-E beauty. I'm especially impressed with AmyDoesKawaguchi, which I previously had in HAM, and that M2=Amiga picture which won you an award. (Runner-up, anyway) Blaq! – via Whap!
John, yes! yes! That's exactly what we need. Fairly easy to hook into IP to, methinks. Blaq! – via Whap!
Peter, John Foust of Syndesis posted a tantalizing message that has me on full hold until the Imagine conversion module comes out. He didn't say anything specific, but his tone was quite seductive. Blaq! – via Whap!
1) To boot under 1.3 I just slip the 1.3 system disk in DF0: and reboot. 2) The Amiga's video output has a horizontal sync frequency of 15.75 or 31.5 KHz, depending if you're in de-interlaced mode (Display Enhancer) or not. Many multisync monitors cannot scan at the lower frequency,…
Vic, the only time it crashes is when I resize the View! window using the Full/Halve menu option. And it doesn't crash consistently, either. Blaq! – via Whap!
Ben, thanks for the reply; at least I know I can do it by hand. But imagine tracing the contour of all those letters… what I had in mind was a 1- or 2-step process in IP. Here's the scenario. I create some large white-on-black text in DPaint. I import…
Ben, yayyy! Thanks for putting it in! It's the first time I even had a suggestion of mine find its way into a program. An easy way to do it would be to add an ON/OFF gadget to each of the four blend graphs. Blaq! – via Whap!
Scott, can you expand on that? I don't quite understand. Blaq! – via Whap!
John, I was on the phone with Keith from Right Answers today — boy is the guy talkative! Now I know why it took me all day to get through B^D Anyway, we did a test on his 3000 right over the phone. He moved a hi-res picture from Fast…
#How to anti-alias in IP?
Message #25053
Ben, another question. Say I have some white-on-black text with a nicely anti-aliased contour. Is there a way for me, using what IP has to offer, to stamp it onto an image so that the anti-aliasing will be kept. It also means I could create high-resolution objects, then create a…
Ben, I'm surprised that nobody thought to ask before. A "straight" horizontal or vertical blend is one of the first things that come to mind! Think of all those TV news backdrops where a colored rectangle lies behind some text, with the transparency of the rectangle increasing as we get…
John, I don't really think an upload is warranted. The thing is big and not that spectacular anyway. If you really want, I could mail you the objects and staging file so you can recreate the scene; my favorite part is the way the sky color changes as the camera…
Gary, wanna mail me some product information on that MIFont? Shouldn't take long to arrive — I'm in good ole T.O.! Here's my address: Charles Blaquiere 122 Collier Toronto, Ont. M4W 1M3 By the way, how much would these disks be in Canadian dollars? Would you accept my money at…
Spliner color cycle
Message #27839
I downloaded the new version of spliner, and while it does cut down on the number of crashes on my 3000 (not fully stable yet!) I found a difference when it kicked in. The color cycle is much less smooth than before! Is this a bug, or a feature? I…
Ben, no go. If you select Graduated Fill with black at the left and red at the right, then do a 2-way horizontal, you get a graduated background that shows the effect I want to get with Blend. Now If I have a black primary buffer and a red secondary…
John, good news — I already have the 2Meg Agnus! (gotta 3000, remember) One thing I've always wondered about is filling Chip RAM with the beginning of my animation and Fast RAM with the next frames, then starting the animation. As Chip RAM frames are displayed, I can copy over…
#Simple hor/vert blend?
Message #24984
How do I get a blend setting that'll give me a vertical or horizontal blend, similar to using "graduated fill" with 2 colors? (I have IP version 3.6, by the way — in case this was solved in later versions) P.S. watch for a spiral blend I'll be uploading. Tricky.…
Peter, thanks for the help, but I don't have Turbo. I joined the Amiga world as an active participant this past January, and immediately jumped into Imagine. Blaq! – via Whap!
Kevin, the original Imagine renders are 704 X 440. However, in IP I convert them to 352 X 220, not 440. Since movement hides so many problems, I feel I'm better off with double the frame rate at the expense of vertical resolution. And of course there's nothing stopping me…
Michael, so I guess "you're moving through a dimension of mind… of things and ideas…" Blaq! – via Whap!
Mike, the latest AmigaWorld has an item about Supergen and the 3000. Seems like early models must be returned to Digital Creations for a $45 upgrade. Now I know I wasn't crazy when I thought the Supergen made my 3000 display all weird! (Basically, it seemed like every other line…
Louis, I'm _transparency_ mapping. I want a "frosted glass" effect, so I need the white letters on a clear background. Blaq! – via Whap!
Kevin, that's why I got the 3000, because I too need something to call my own. The difference is, I don't need to make it a full-time business. I'm relatively happy programming COBOL by day and clicking my way through Imagine by night. Having done some DTP for 6 months,…
Steve, the graphics chips' data path in the A3000 is still 16 bits wide. Blaq! – via Whap!
John, in the Siggraph "Amiga day" videotape, one of the segments shows Brad Schenck demonstrating a real-time animation on DCTV. He does mention that the 3000's 32-bit RAM makes things much smoother than the 2000's 16-bit RAM. Blaq! – via Whap!
John, I hear a lot about this AVid magazine on the Forum. Can you tell me more about it? Blaq! – via Whap!
Don, there is a very specialized type of memory called associative memory. It works as an instantaneous table search. One use is for operating systems that feature virtual memory, where the logical address of a piece of data may be different from the physical address. For example, say you have…
Leslie, you betcha ip runs faster on an accelerated machine! I'm used to using HAM-E software on a 25 MHz Amiga 3000, and felt quite a chill when I demo'd IP to a friend with an unaccelerated 2000! However, this summer Black Belt will rewrite their software in assembler and…
John, of course the ARexx solution, compositing several images with varying degrees of transparency, is also feasable on Image Professional. I know you know, but maybe Wayne doesn't know. (Well yeah, I'm sure he knows too, but what about the new user down the street?) Blaq! – via Whap!
Phil, any mapping that has a speckled appearance is caused by the map being positioned right at the surface of the object. Try moving the map one unit in Y (since the map's Y axis is 2 units long, this will be perfect) and the picture will look fine. Blaq!…
Louis, but I _am_ transparency-mapping the letters! That's the point. The white background on my logo picture maps out to full transparency, and the black letters map as full opacity — but the letters come out black (their color in the map image) rather than almost white (the color of…
Scott, you may already know this, but… I just figured it out myself this week, when I stumbled onto it in the manual: the only way to interactively position an object in the stage editor is to be positioned in the last frame of the object's time line. Otherwise, your…
John, I don't care much about memory; I'm pricing RAM even as we speak. It just seems to me that a mighty 25 MHz 68030 should be able to move 77K from Fast to Chip RAM in an instant, no? (Quick, you assembly language types — how fast is the…
Ben, I did realize as I was writing that you only get 256 shades of red, green, blue and the other combinations of those primary colors. Just for the record. Blaq! – via Whap!
John, yes, you were veru clear. However, I don't have the Turbo Silver converter, so I might just as well wait and buy the Imagine module when it comes out. My Interfont package only has the DrawPlus, Interfont, Prodraw, Sculpt-3D and Videoscape-3D modules. Blaq! – via Whap!
#Gasp! ANIM speed
Message #9893
Aargh! I just completed my second Imagine animation, this time using a moving camera. Everything got rendered at 704 X 440, converted down to 352 X 220 HAM-E format (to get some anti-aliasing in there), the ANIM was compiled, and then… The whole thing ran at 3.8 frames/second. On a…
David, please do! I'm at a point where I just started changing the camers Size parameters in order to get the right amount of zoom for a scene. I'd love to see what you came up with. Blaq! – via Whap!
John, my glass plate has a color of 200,200,235 which is fairly light. I have no idea why the letters show up dark grey. Blaq! – via Whap!
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