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Fun with DPaint
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I haven't seen any other messages describing such things as little tricks you
can play with the software we've got (I don't have 'C' yet, and no docs for
AmigaBasic, so I can only tinker). But I found that if you give a range of
colors in cycle mode, take a circle of a cycle color for a brush, then make it
cyclically symmetrical (10 – 20 points — whatever your taste) then a slow
counterclockwise motion from the center creates Polyscope easy as pie. Hit the
tab key and keep painting. I have played with it in lo-res, medium and high.
It's a stunning example of how easy it is to create complicated effects with
the Amiga. Let me know if you like this, or am I the last person here who
figured out you could do stuff like this?
By the way, does anyone know where I should go for a hint on the game of
Questron? Some friends and I are playing it on an Atari and we can't get past
the molten boulder to save our necks. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Yeah, I was doing polyscope-type cycled-screens last night too. REally blew
my mind how easy such complicated looking effects are to do with DPaint. Try
grabbing the entire paint can from the paintcan screen as a brush , turn on
cycling to about a factor of 12 or so, then start making ever-increasing
circles with that paint–can-brush in the middle of the screen heading
outward in spirals…..wow, talk about an incredible deep 3-d effect!
At this point I'm really wishing I had plunked another $100 into my printer
purchase a couple months ago and had sprung for the Epson JX80 color model.
This Deluxe Paint is one very AWESOME piece of software!
I recant completely about having said it was too expensive at $80. It is
worth every penny if you are graphically inclined!
I file copied the entire disk to another, and use that other in the drive
once Dpaint has loaded so I have all the paintings and brushes on the
original disk at my beck and call.
If you've got a 512K machine when you load Dpaint the whole damn thing
resides in memory and unless you want to do a printout, you shouldn't need to
shove in the original disk again.
Yeah, I was doing polyscope-type cycled-screens last night too. REally blew
my mind how easy such complicated looking effects are to do with DPaint. Try
grabbing the entire paint can from the paintcan screen as a brush , turn on
cycling to about a factor of 12 or so, then start making ever-increasing
circles with that paint–can-brush in the middle of the screen heading
outward in spirals…..wow, talk about an incredible deep 3-d effect!
At this point I'm really wishing I had plunked another $100 into my printer
purchase a couple months ago and had sprung for the Epson JX80 color model.
This Deluxe Paint is one very AWESOME piece of software!
I recant completely about having said it was too expensive at $80. It is
worth every penny if you are graphically inclined!
I file copied the entire disk to another, and use that other in the drive
once Dpaint has loaded so I have all the paintings and brushes on the
original disk at my beck and call.
If you've got a 512K machine when you load Dpaint the whole damn thing
resides in memory and unless you want to do a printout, you shouldn't need to
shove in the original disk again.