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- Tame - Getting Started
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- o After Tame has loaded a credit window will be displayed, press
- ESC or close the window...
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- o Tame uses intuition menus in a similar way to Dpaint, in that the
- mouse needs to be at the top of the screen when the right button
- is pressed...
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- o Select "Project >>> Auto Load Files" (or press "L")
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- o Load "TameMaps/World00.map", because you are in autoload, you
- could have selected ".dat" or ".blk", it doesn't matter!!!
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- o A map will appear!!!
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- o You can move about the map with the cursor keys...
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- o Pressing space will toggle between the map screen and the block
- screen. The block screen shows the blocks that make up the map!
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- o Blocks can be "picked" up from either the map or block screen with
- the right mouse button. Moving the mouse while picking up will
- pickup more than one block.
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- o Try picking up a cloud... Pressing the left mouse button puts it
- down on the map!!!
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- o Press the "M" button for a magnify of the current block.
- There are 3 magnifies 1x1, 2x2, and 3x3, selection is automatic.
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- o There is also a special "exclusive" feature called masking...
- 1. Pick up the cloud which has a grey/blue background...
- 2. Press the "/" key, notice that the map editor shows the
- transparent bits...
- 3. Put the cloud down, when you do this the map editor will
- create the extra blocks needed, you can see this on the
- block screen.
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- o The attributes are to enable the games programmer to set solid bits,
- slopes, etc (This is within the "Specialist" menu!)
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- o You can import/export iff's, neo's etc...
- 1. Go to the block screen (Space)
- 2. Use the cursor keys to move to a free area
- 3. Select "Project >>> Manual Load File(s)
- 4. Select a file to import (any .neo .iff etc...)
- 5. The file will be loaded, you will be notified of any
- palette conflicts, and asked if you want to remap!
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- o The program can do various block reductions, try them out...
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- That was just a small sample of what can be done in Tame, there are many
- more commands that can be used... You really should read both the ReadMe
- file and the Help info within the Program to find more info!
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