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- Fill Tool (Toolbox)
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- KEYBOARD = f Fill tool
- SHIFT F Displays Fill Type requester
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- REMEMBER: f for "fill"
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- DEMONSTRATION AVAILABLE -> `Fill_Tool.sdemo`
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- The Fill tool is selected by clicking the Left Mouse button over its icon.
- When selected, the cursor becomes the shape of a paint can with a spout.
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- Selecting the Fill tool with the Right Mouse button displays the Fill Type
- requester:
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- SEE -> `FillType.pic`
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- SOLID: fills with a single color Using the Left button fills with the
- current foreground color, while the Right button fills with the
- current background color.
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- TINT: tints an area with the current fill color by replacing the
- Saturation and Hue levels of the screen pixels with those of the
- current fill color but does not change the Value of the pixels (see
- Palette lesson). During this operation, the RGB values for the new
- tint color are calculated and the color in the current palette which
- most closely matches this color is used. Therefore, the Tint effect
- is very dependant on the available palette colors.
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- BRUSH: Sizes the current custom brush to fill in the selected area.
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- WRAP: Distorts the current custom brush to fill the shape of the selected
- area to give the illusion of wrapping around a 3D solid.
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- PERSPECTIVE: fills with a pattern of the current brush using the current
- Perspective settings (see Perspective lesson).
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- HBRITE: If available on your system, this option will fill using the
- HBrite painting mode (see HBrite mode lesson).
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- PATTERN: fills with a pattern created from the current brush using the
- From Brush function.
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- GRADIENT FILLS: fills with a color spread from the cycle range of the
- current foreground color according to the following methods:
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- SEE -> `Fill Requester.pic`
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- DEMONSTRATION AVAILABLE -> `Gradient_Fills.ademo`
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- HORIZONTAL - gradient is evenly distributed from left to right.
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- VERTICAL - gradient is evenly distributed from top to bottom.
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- HORIZONTAL SHAPE - gradient is evenly distributed from left to right
- but adjusted on each line to follow the contours of the current
- shape being filled.
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- Directional Gradients:
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- LINEAR FILLS
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- LINE (Linear) - can be set to any angle or direction; a line setting
- tool lets you adjust the direction and angle.
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- SHAP (Shaped) - another linear type gradient that can be set to any
- angle or direction. Additionally the contours of the current
- shape are taken into account.
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- RADIAL FILLS
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- CIR (Circular) - gradient is created using concentric bands of color.
- a line tool lets you adjust the center point of the gradient.
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- CON (Contour) - a circular type gradient that follows the contours
- of the current shape.
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- HI (Highlight) - creates a gradient that simulates highlighting.
- You define where the "hotspot" is positioned.
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- THE DIRECTION OF THE GRADIENT IS SPECIFIED BY THE DIRECTION OF THE COLOR
- RANGE IN THE RANGE REQUESTER. Also, ALT r reverses the direction of the
- current color range.
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- DITHER: adjusts the degree of color mixing used in gradient fills.
- The default dithering type, with the Random box unchecked, is
- Ordered Dithering. This uses an orderly arrangement of dots
- to blend gradient bands.
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- RANDOM - when you click on the random box, a check mark appears to
- indicate that it is activated. The dithering slider will
- then become active - allowing you to adjust the mixing or
- coarseness of the gradient.
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- REMEMBER: the dithering slider is only active in RANDOM dithering
- mode.
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- H-B: If HalfBrite mode is available on your system, this option enables or
- disables the use of Extra Halfbrite colors within the gradient.
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- Holding down "i" while using the Fill tool fills outward using areas with
- the current background color as boundaries.
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- In Animations, Animfill can be activated by holding down the Alt key while
- filling. The same area over all the existing frames will be filled.
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