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- Spare Brush (Brush Menu)
-
- In addition to the `Spare Page` feature, DeluxePaint IV adds the ability to
- have a spare custom brush. This means that you can now switch between a
- built-in brush, animbrush, and either of two custom brushes that you cut
- out with the `Brush Tool`. More importantly, this spare brush feature
- allows you to access the "Metamorphosis" feature.
-
- DEMONSTRATION AVAILABLE -> `Spare_Brush.sdemo`
-
- Metamorph allows you to have one custom brush transform into the shape and
- colors of another custom brush - resulting in a metamorphing animbrush.
- DeluxePaint automatically takes care of Tweening (drawing the in-between
- frames).
-
- Brush->Spare After cutting out a brush with the `Brush Tool`, you must
- (ALT n) use this function to copy the brush to the spare brush.
- This brush will be the starting shape for the Metamorph.
-
- You can then cut out another brush shape. The size of the
- brush is limited to available memory. A requester will be
- displayed if a brush is too big.
-
- Brush<->Spare This function lets you switch between the current brush and
- (ALT b) the spare brush for painting.
-
-
- Metamorph Once you have a spare brush AND another custom brush you
- (ALT m) can perform a metamorph. Selecting this function displays
- a requester where you enter the number of frames or
- transformation steps that you want in the metamorph. When
- you click OK, the Metamorph animbrush will be created using
- a screen separate from your picture or animation frames.
- After the process has completed, the newly created animbrush
- will be attached to your pointer, ready for animpainting.
-
- See -> `AnimBrush` `AnimPainting`
-