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- ProCONTROL 1.0 ReadMe
- Late Breaking News and Manual Corrections
-
- Contents:
-
- o Obtaining Technical Support
- o Tutorial Pictures Acknowledgements
-
- o Last-Minute Features, Changes, and Clarifications
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- Obtaining Technical Support
-
- Whenever you call us for technical support, please have your ADPro or
- MorphPlus serial number, as well as the exact version number of the program
- (found by pressing the About button on ADPro's or MorphPlus' main screen).
- Having this information available will allow us to better serve you.
-
- You can reach us at the phone number listed in your manual.
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- Tutorial Pictures Acknowledgements
-
- Thanks to Louis Jaime for use of the below images in the Tutorials chapter
- of the documentation:
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- These images, in any form, are protected under federal copyright laws.
- They cannot be altered or used for any commercial purposes and/or public
- display, unless I [Louis Jaime] am notified in advance and grant permission
- in writing.
-
- Special permission granted to Doug Crane for use as examples in ProControl
- ProControl puts Amiga Power at your finger tips!
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- Mirrored Checks Copyright (c) 1992 Louis Jaime All rights reserved.
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-
- This image originated from an acrylic painting I did a few years ago. It
- was taken from a series I did on how reflective surfaces can introduce a
- new, and at times decieving visual perspective. Raytracing seemed like the
- natural solution.
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- Emerald Copyright (c) 1993 Louis Jaime All rights reserved.
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-
- This is a frame of an animation I created called "Emerald". I recommend
- taking a look at this animation to get the full effect. The stone rotates
- and the waves in the pool move. Let your imagination take it from there...
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- Last-Minute Features, Changes, and Clarifications
-
- o Caching Loader, Saver, and Operator Modules
- o Specifying Starting ANIM Frame
- o New Menu Items
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- Caching Loader, Saver, and Operator Modules
-
- ProCONTROL now supports loader, operator, and saver caching for ADPro. Go
- to the "Options" menu and insure that "Cache" is checked. Now when
- processing is begun, ProCONTROL will set up directories in RAM: containing
- all loaders, operators, and savers used in the script(s). These will be
- removed when processing is complete.
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- Specifying Starting ANIM Frame
-
- There is a new section in the "Script Info" requester (accessed by double-
- clicking any line in your script). If the line selected is an ANIM loader
- line, you will be able to specify the "frame 1 offset" in the Anim section
- of this window. When used, the first frame loaded from the anim will be
- the number you specify, not frame 1. This option is ghosted if the line
- selected is not an ANIM line.
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- New Menu Items
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- "Display Pic"/"UnDisplay Pic" menu items. These will bring your image to
- front or push it to back when placed in your script. Equivalent to hitting
- "ReDisplay" on ADPro.
-
- "Guess Screen"/"Guess Colors" menu items. Normally when writing a script,
- a specific display type is selected before rendering a picture. Sometimes
- when loading a script, you might wish to process files that are of a
- different resolution than those used when the script was written. By using
- "Guess Screen" instead of injecting a screen type from ProCONTROL's SCREEN
- section, ProCONTROL will try to determine the best screen format based on
- the image data currently loaded in ADPro. It will then issue the
- appropriate "SCREEN_TYPE" command. Similarly, "Guess Colors" replaces the
- choices in the COLORS section. "Guess Colors" will use 4 colors for a
- super hi-res image, 16 colors for a hi-res image, and HAM for a lo-res
- image. "Guess Colors" has little use on a 4000 as settings like HAM8 apply
- to almost all graphics modes.
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