As with every software product there are always last minute changes and additions. Listed herein are those changes that you should be aware of.
1. It is stated on Page 5 of the Manual that there are three disks included with Imagine, this is not correct, there are four and they are labeled in the following manner.
DEMO
OBJECTS
FP
INT
On the FP disk is the Floating Point version of Imagine
On the INT disk is the Interger version of Imagine.
If you have an accelerated AMiga you should use the Floating Point Version
If you have a standard Amiga please use the Interger version, the Interger version will work on both Amigas the Floating Point will only work on the 020-030-040 versions of the Amiga.
INSTALLATION
To install Imagine you will find a Drawer on the Program disks that are labeled FP or INT, decide on which version of the software that you want to use, from Workbench drag the drawer to your new disk or hard drive and the entire contents of the Imagine, Imagine.config and Imagine.pic will be copied to the destination that you choose.
In the users guide we refer to the Accessories Disk, is called the Demo disk not Accessories. There are other files that you will want to use and they are found on the Demo disk. There are six drawers on this disk they are.
Effects... In this drawer are the special effects that are to be used in the stage editor.
Textures... In this drawer are the Textures that can be applied to various objects in the Detail Editor.
Wraps.... In this drawer are a few wraps that you can use to test IFF brush wrapping.
Attributes.... In this drawer are a few preset attributes that can be loaded to any object in the Attributes requester found in the Detail Editor, they are glass, chrome and various other attributes.
Pics.... In this drawer are pictures for your viewing pleasure
Objects.. In this drawer are several objects that you might find useful
When you do the ICK tutorial you will be requested to load the Ground and Ball from this disk, make sure that you load the ground from this disk and not from your hard drive because the texture that it uses is found on this disk and it needs to be able to access this floppy for that texture. The Ground and the Ball are found in the Tutorial Drawer.
Also you will be requested to load various objects into Imagine as you move through the Users Guide, all of these objects are found on the Demo disk in the Objects drawer.
There are two programs that are found on the FP and INT they are found in the drawer with Imagine. They do not have ICONS you should use CLI to copy them to your C directory, Iview will show a picture when you use the following command:
IVIEW(space) File Name Example Iview pic.0001
PlayIanm is an animation player program so that you can distribute you animations to others. Also if you are working on a Amiga that has limitied memory use the Playianm command to view your animations without having to load and run Imagine. Also copy this command to your C directory and use it in the following manner. When you make a subproject to a master project and then make an animation you can change the directory in CLI to go into the subproject where the file named ANIM resides. From this point you would do the following:
Playianm Anim
after a few brief moments you will see a window that tells you it is loading the animation, it will play the animation until you depress the left mouse button or hit the ESC key.
Speed controls. When you view an animation from software or by using the Playianm command, you can speed the animation up by depressing the F1 key to make it go as fast as it can or the F10 key to goes as slow as you would ever want it to got, each other Function key will increase or decrease the speed of the Animation by a factor of about 2. If you want to tweak the speed you can do so by depressing the plus or minus keys, plus makes the movie go faster and minus goes slower.
If you hit the space bar the animation will stop on the frame that was presently showing when you hit the space bar. To start the animation again simply depress one of the Function keys.
