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- The following material was created on a 14M A3000 with an OpalVision Board,
- DPaintIV and Art Department Professional. You may need to modify the enclosed
- goods slightly to adapt them to your enviornment (anything that I am currently
- aware of is explained below...feel free to let me know of others).
-
- The original archive contains: this text file
- prefs/patterns/(17 images)
- prefs/presets/(17 presets)
- prefs/sys/env-archive/(prefs)
- s/(piece of my startup-sequence)
- c/(rand)
- icons/(lots of icons)
- two sample pictures grabbed from my WB.
-
- The s: dir just shows a piece of a s-s which I use to get random backdrops (it
- is pretty self explainatory :)
-
- prefs:wbpattern prefs:presets/wbpattern`c:rand 1 17`.pre use
-
- The c: dir contains a randomizer written by Troy Morehouse, which is required
- by the s-s script. Rand will take two arguments and randomize your images
- between the two intervals. The way I work the process is to use the WBPattern
- prefs and save a preset for each picture I want to randomize (in my case the
- prefix is wbpatternX.pre). Simply call that prefix with wbpattern in the s-s
- with the randomized portion in "tilde quotes," as shown above (if in doubt, just
- cut and paste the piece of this s-s into yours and copy the presets I've
- included into your prefs:presets drawer). I keep the patterns dir in the prefs
- drawer, however, put it where you like.
-
- NOTE to OS2.x users: you'll have to use NickPrefs (which you can get in the
- MagicWorkBench archive) to display the backdrops, however, you can still
- randomize them in the same manner as described above.
-
- NOTE to 4000 owners (maybe 1200?): you'll probably have to run the images
- through DPaint or ADpro to remap the palette (I don't know why but the palette
- doesn't show up properly?!?).
-
- I DID labour over the enclosed images however, very few are from my own
- imagination...Amy the Squirrel and some other Cat Lady (by Eric Schwartz),
- Cool World's Holly Wood (?) and some other pix which I've gotten from somewhere
- and then fixed them up and made them Magic Workbench "compatable." You might
- notice the obvious lean towards anime (japanese animation) characters in the
- last few images...I've become an anime junky as of late (check it out, it really
- helps when you're looking for that "any excuse will do" to procratinate the
- homework).
-
- If you want to make your own (which you SHOULD do so that I don't have to :),
- here's how I do it...first I find a pic I like (go figure), scan or digitize
- it (if it isn't already an image), then run it through ADPro with the 8 color
- magic workbench palette locked...TWICE! (once with Floyd dithering on, and then
- a second with it off. The reason: some parts of the pick will look good
- dithered, and others won't, so I pick pieces out of each to make the final
- image). Next spend anywhere from a couple of days to a week or more fixing the
- image up (hand antialiasing, dithering...). One tip: sometimes it's easiest to
- just trace the outline of the pic in DPaint and then use the stencil to wipe out
- all the color. Now it's just like a paint by number! Use the ranges to get the
- nice dithering effects. The magic wand tool in OpalPaint also helps to get rid
- of a lot of color which are similar (thereby allowing you to reduce the
- palette). Another approach is to remap the image with the MWB palette right in
- DPaint...experiment for yourself...
-
- The icons in the icons drawer are just some I drew when I had the need (I even
- took some from DOCK icons and scaled them, fixed them...), and I'm even sure
- that I have more lying around somewhere...whatever, if you find these at all
- useful, well great!
-
- Finally the crap about keeping the archive in tact...blah, blah, blah:
-
- Distribute this archive how you like: in pieces if you like, or a collection of
- corrupted images without this text file to help them along...whatever.
-
- Money: don't want any...enjoy them (God knows you won't get anything else in
- life for FREE!) If you like these just say HI! (or give me some of your cool
- pix).
-
- Copyright? okay would you believe these are copywritten?...!? :)
-
- Thanx for magic workbench Martin Huttenloher. You should register for Magic
- WorkBench 2.0 NOW!...
-
- Trevor
- email: shockwav@unb.ca
-