. KABOOM !. Well if you have found this then you should be getting to grips with using an Interplay project , either that or you are using a text viewer and reading my texts straight off the disk . Anyway just in case you would like some background details regarding this little piece I have supplied the following texts :-. This nice little demo was assembled over two days ( no rush at all - NOT ! ) using a number of specialised programs . The most important of these , from the multi-media point of view , was Interplay . This is the program created by Optonica to allow any competent Amiga user to be able to create quality multi-media products with ease , hence I can do this . The basic way that a project is created is to collect the material that you wish to place into the project and then design a layout for it . To make this a bit clearer I will take you through how I put this project together .. Starting with the basics I had eleven pictures , four anims , and three music mods. I then proceeded to view all of the material and I then laid out my design . After some thought I had decided on a nine page production ( this sounds rather a small number but please read on ) . The pages are as follows :-. 1. Title Page. 2. Introduction Page. 3. Selections Page. 4. Read-me Page. 5. Dungeon Duel Page. 6. Halberd anim Page. 7. Scimitar anim Page. 8. Wand anim Page. 9. Final Page. The Title Page I drew using D-Paint ( my art-work leaves something to be desired , I know ) , this was then imported into Interplay and a button was created over the "Start" button . This then takes you to the Introduction Page . This page has four main components - the background image , the text box , and the two selection boxes . The text you should have read so I will not detail that , but the first of the other two boxes is the help . Selecting this box displays a picture of the CD-32 handset with some additional help texts ( I also set this picture to be displayed as the "global help" so that it was displayed from the green button or from the "Help" key on a keyboard ) . The second of these buttons takes you to the selections page .. The selections page has three buttons , the one to take you to this page , a "Credits" button , this displays two pictures , and the Dungeon Duel button that starts the interactive preview . This screen has two buttons - the text button and the "Done" button ( You will probably have used both of these by now as I am sure you must have got board of reading this and had a look through the Dungeon Duel stuff . I know I would have ! ) which takes you back to the previous screen .. The Dungeon Duel button takes you into the Dungeon Duel screen . This is really just one big button that , when selected , takes you into the preview section . Before you get there you are shown four of the intro screens , all nice ray-traces , and played some music . Once this has finished you are presented with one of the new features offered by Interplay ( anim - pages ) , a nice ray-traced animation of a Halberd ( effectively a long handled axe ) and some text . The next page has the auto-run option set up so that it displays a number of pictures before you get to the page itself . This page is another anim page with a rather nice looking scimitar on display ( it seems almost a shame to get blood on it - but not that much of a shame ) , and some more text . The third page is very similar displaying the wand anim ( and this wand is something else ) but the auto-run contains the ring anim , showing you what the shop will look like in the game ( this is also the screen that we cut up to make the anim pages ) .. The final page in this gives you the option to go back to the beginning , had I been given the whole disk to do then I would have included options to go to the other bits and pieces on the disk , but never mind maybe soon eh ?. That is about it but I will give you a list of the equipment and programs that I used , just in case you are interested .. Hardware. 1. A1200 , 4mg , 120mg HD , + 2 extra floppy drives .. 2. A2000 , ( with loads of stuff ) .. 3. USRobotics sportster modem .. Software. 1. Interplay ( the latest beta version ). 2. ADPro ( image manipulation ). 3. Photogenics ( image working ). 4. D-Paint. 5. InfoNEXUS ( File manager from Optonica , with Envoy support ). 6. Quickgrab ( screen grabber ). 7. Opus 4 ( Opus 5 I find too clumsy ). 8. AlphaWord ( for the text - you could have had this on this cd but Mark Smith , Miles's boss , said that you would not be interested in a word processor on your cd- Tell him if you are and if enough of you want it then I am sure you will get it ! ) .. 9. Octamed 5 ( for the music ) . Well that's about it so if you have any comments for the magazine then please write to the usual address , but if you should wish to contact myself then please write to Paradise Design , 70 Standfast Road , Henbury , Bristol , BS10 7HJ , England .. B-Cool and don't take crap for no reason .. PAR.
