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for adding the raindrop grouping but begin the brush movement in
frame five or six. The movement will loop around to frame one
and continue until 10 frames have been drawn.
A Stormy Day
The stormy day will be just like the rainy day but with some
lightning added. So, while on frame one of the rainy day
animation, load the lightning bolt grouping brush. All that is
needed is to add the lightning to various frames of the rainy day
animation so that the lightning appears to be flashing on and
off. I found that lightning bolts on frames 1, 2, 5, and 6 look
quite good. It gives the appearance of two quick flashes and then
a pause. Make sure the lightning bolts are in the same position
in each frame to which they are added. This is best done by
positioning the bolts at the appropriate location in the sky and
pressing the Left Alt-Left Amiga key combination (same as
pressing the left mouse button). Go to the next frame to which
the bolts will be added by pressing the 2 key to advance frames.
Paste the bolts with the same key combination. This method will
prevent the slight movement that can occur when trying to hold
the mouse steady.
A Snowy Day
This one is quite simple now that the other ones have been
created. Simply create the moving clouds on a dark blue sky as
for the rainy day animation. Now, instead of adding falling
raindrops, simply add falling snowflakes using the snowflake
grouping brush.
Other Days
What other type of days can you think of? Hail? How would
you portray it in the AnimBrush? Perhaps the snowfall will be
big. The ground could be changed to white for that one. There
are many different types of days that can be created. Play
around with it. Let your creative juices flow.
Putting It All Together
Now that the AnimBrushes for the various type of days have
been created and saved (you did remember to save them all, didn't
you?), it is time to bring everything together for an actual
five-day forecast. Delete all the animation frames so there is
only the one DeluxePaint work screen. This can be done by setting
the number of frames to one. Load the five-day forecast template
(Figure 2). Then load the appropriate brush containing the names
of the five days to be forecast. Paste is under the title in the
appropriate position above the five empty boxes.
Next, select the font and font size to use for the
temperatures. Type the low and high temperatures for each day in
the appropriate rectangles. Set the number of frames to 10; the
filled in template will be copied to all frames.
Load the AnimBrush that represents the type of weather that
will prevail on the first day of the forecast. Paste it inside
the left-most box of frame one. Use the Move requester to paste
it to each frame of the animation. Do the same for the second
day, the third, and so on until all five days have AnimBrushes
associated with them.
The animation is now complete. It can be saved as an Anim
file for use in a presentation package. Figure 6 shows frame two
of a sample I created. Figure 7 shows frame seven of the same
sample. I wish I could put the animation in the magazine, but
technology has not reached that point yet. You will just have to
put one together yourself. Or, if you prefer, you can write me
care of this magazine and I will send you a disk for a small fee.
Conclusions
I hope you have had fun working through this tutorial. Using
DeluxePaint to build the final five-day forecast can be a bit
cumbersome since you must manually load the brushes and paste
them in the right location. Probably the most time consuming
task is typing in the temperatures. In a follow up article, I
will show you how to automate these tasks using HELM.
If you put together something like this for a TV station, I
would like to know about it. See you next time.