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- MYISOICONS 2.0
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- Short: Icons in isometric style - 2nd archive
- Author: dw@itu.sun.ac.za <David Wiles>
- Uploader: dw@itu.sun.ac.za <David Wiles>
- Type: pix/icon
- Distribution: World
-
- Long: The second set of IFF pics that can be used to create icons in the
- style of the "NewIcons" package. Various elements can be combined to create
- an icon to your personal preferences.
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- INTRODUCTION:
-
- This is my second collection of IFF pics that can be used to create
- "isometric" style icons, in the style of the original NewIcons collection
- by Roger McVey and Philip Vedovatti. It will the last for a while as I have
- other projects waiting in the wings that are demanding my urgent attention.
-
- THE MYISOICONS CLIPART COLLECTION - PART II:
-
- My first collection seems to be a hit with quite a few people. How can I
- judge this, you may ask? Well, if you get as far as the "LICENSING &
- COPYRIGHT" bit of this .readme file you will notice that I uploaded the
- first collection as FREEWARE with a humble request to spend a little effort
- in just e-mailing me to tell me that you <fill in the blank> the collection.
-
- I guess I expected too much of the Aminet users. I got ONE e-mail message
- from Philip Vedovatti. (Yes, of the AESICONS fame) Thanks Phil, for the time
- and effort. We have since then engaged in regular correspondence and have
- become friends of sorts.
-
- (Take a bow Phil! Thanks for the encouragement and support, and the plug
- for this archive in your AESICONS4 collection.)
-
- OK, so I got one lousy reply, but after a month or two of downloading this
- and that from Aminet, I noticed my icons popping up in all sorts of places.
- Some appeared in various archives in the pix/wb directory, some in icon
- collections in the pix/icon directory, in fact all over. People obviously
- liked what I was doing, but couldn't either be bothered to take the time to
- just e-mail and say "I liked <this and that> icon and used it for <this and
- that> program, or they just plain forgot.
-
- <sigh>
-
- Well, that's the nature of Internet, isn't it?
-
- The first archive was uploaded in time to make the deadline for the Aminet 6
- CD-ROM, and I promised the second collection for the end of July. So, why so
- late?
-
- Well, <grin> I have been knocked around with a few gremlins since then -
- including TWO hard disk failures! One was caused by a buggy program that was
- SUPPOSED to power down IDE drives after a certain time. All it did was trash
- my Workbench: and Work: hard disk partitions.
-
- Did I have a backup? No! Of course not! Who wastes stiffy disks on backups?
- So I had to build the hard drive up from scratch. That took a while, and my
- IsoIcon imagery had to be created from scratch as well.
-
- The second crash (on my Aminet/FTP partition, this time) occured just after
- this during an defragmenting procedure. I was able to recover most of that
- but some of the newer stuff had to be re-downloaded from Aminet again. Again
- it took some time, so was not able to meet my deadline of the end of July.
-
- So here it is, Part II of the MyIsoIcons collection. Both my HD0: and HD1:
- hard disks are backed up as well! <grin>
-
- WHAT TO DO WITH IT?: (repeated from the first collections .readme)
-
- The IFFs consist of finished icons with both the Normal and Selected image.
- All that is really required is to load the respective IFF into your paint
- program and cut out a brush of the image that you want. There are dozens of
- utilities in the Public Domain that will load and convert IFF brushes into
- icons. Give WorkBench's IconEdit a miss. It is a total loss when it comes to
- the simplest of tasks.
-
- Also are "clips" of various items that can be combined with each other to
- create a unique icon according to your needs. There are arrows, computers,
- disks that can be used in a variety of ways.
-
- The IFFs are 16-colour 640 X 512 resolution bitmaps. All of the icons use
- the first 4 colours only. I left the other 12 colours unused so that you
- could create 8 or 16-colour icons. I often use the unused colours to draw
- temporary construction lines or to test a special effect.
-
- I have added a "screen grab" or two to the archive, just so that you can see
- how the icons look on my WorkBench. My 16-colour "blow their socks off"
- WorkBench is also included. I have grown rather fond of the "grey, black,
- white and blue" default palette of WB 2.0 and up. :-7 (Remember the
- WorkBench 1.2 ans 1.3 default colours? -Barff!)
-
- ...
-
- In this new collection I have included some icons from my sparse collection
- of games, some of my other favourite software including VistaPro, DSS 8, and
- YourFault. (take a bow, Lee Kindness) The IsoIconsCLIPS file has also grown.
-
- LICENCING AND COPYRIGHT:
-
- This collection is FREEWARE! Seeing as I based most of the imagery on others
- basic ideas, I feel that I cannot claim any copyright. A lot of the ideas
- are my own but I reckon that if you like the icons, and want to use them on
- your own WorkBench, then be my guest! I only ask that if you do decide to
- use them, then I would appreciate it if you could drop me some e-mail,
- postcards, telephone calls etc., to let me know that you like my work. (I
- thrive on praise :-})
-
- As for the legal stuff here goes:
-
- All credit to all the authors/packages/progams mentioned. Quotations taken
- from author's documentation, are copied verbatim. Credit/copyright is still
- theirs.
-
- BLATANT PLUG FOLLOWS: (repeated from the first collections .readme)
-
- I do have some other stuff on Aminet, BTW, should you be interested. Check
- out the following.
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- "Revenge of the Blob"
-
- My personal interpretation of a classic Calvin & Hobbes cartoon. Done in
- MovieSetter a la Eric Schwartz.
-
- Found on Fish Disk 816 in the "Revenge" directory.
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- "aidstoons"
-
- Some cartoons of my own with the subject matter of the lighter side of AIDS.
- Found in the pix/misc directory of AmiNet under the name of aidstoons.lha
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- "When Worlds Collide"
-
- This is my present project. It isn't quite finished yet, but should be on
- AmiNet in early July. This is a MovieSetter animation telling the story
- of what really happened when the comet Shoemaker-Levy collided with Jupiter
- in July last year.
-
- ***As you can see, if you got this far, that this no longer applies. It will
- be most likely be on Aminet sometime in early 1996. :( ***
-
- It will be uploaded into the gfx/anim directory as most likely Worlds1.lha
- and Worlds2.lha
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- Advertising plug now ceases...
-
- HOW TO CONTACT ME:
-
- David Wiles:
-
- E-MAIL: DW@ITU.SUN.AC.ZA
- or: DW@MATIES.SUN.AC.ZA
-
- SNAIL-MAIL: David Wiles
- c/o B.M.D.E.
- P.O. Box 19063
- TYGERBERG 7505
- South Africa
-
- Phone: +21-938-9510 (W)
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