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Save menu

The Save menu contains five sub menus for saving images in various formats.

Vectors

This is the format used to save the design of your image. This includes all of the wire frame information, colours, maps and world - everything that you need to reconstruct your image again but still retain it in an editable format.

Sweep

This option enables you to save out any Sweep designs that you want to keep. Sweeps can be entered into any scene by loading them and then using Edit.Add object.Sweep obj. You can add as many Sweep objects as you like but they have to be added to the scene one at a time.

Picture

This is the option used to save the current rendered image. It gives three options.

  • Compressed saves as a compressed screen using the XArc module. The filetype of this compressed screen is DE2 which is the same as the original ProArtisan. However, the compression module is different. Two utilities are provided on disc to convert from one to the other and back again. These are explained in the appendices.
  • Sprite save the picture in standard Sprite format
  • Clear format is the native mode of a public domain program called Translator. A sister program from the same author called Creator enables you to convert Clear files into various other formats such as GIFF, TIFF and AIM. This provides a means of converting these files for display and use on other computers.

By default Sprite is selected. Whichever option you choose the icon and default file name will change to reflect your choice.

Daw

This item enables you to save the vectors file as a Draw file. What you in fact get is the same as you get when using the Wireframe option in the Render menu. The resulting Draw file can be printed in Draw or imported into a DTP package. Note that the objects cannot be ungrouped in Draw and it is not intended that you should edit the object in any way.

24bit

This option saves a picture as a 24 bit colour Clear file.

When you use this option a file is written to disc first and then the picture is created in 24 bit format and saved to disc as it is created. Even if you have rendered the picture before, this process is still performed as the image in memory is not a 24 bit image.

Note that 24 bit images are considerably larger than their normal 8 bit counterparts and you really need a hard disc to use this format. A rough guide to the file size is: X res * Y res * 3. For a mode 21 screen this would be:

640 * 512 * 3 = 983,040 bytes or 960 Kbytes

The Clear file format is the native mode of a public domain program called Translator. A sister program from the same author called Creator enables you to convert Clear files into various other formats such as GIFF, TIFF and AIM. This provides a means of converting these files for display and use on other computers.

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