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- From: entity@nsq.uucp (cybernetworx)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Program to generate COPPER LISTS wanted.
- Message-ID: <282@nsq.uucp>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 19:37:44 GMT
- References: <Paul_Trauth.0m6i@agwbbs.new-orleans.LA.US>
- Organization: NSQ
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- In article <Paul_Trauth.0m6i@agwbbs.new-orleans.LA.US>, Paul_Trauth@agwbbs.new-orleans.LA.US (Paul Trauth) writes:
- >
- > i've felt a need for this sort of thing for a long time, myself.
- > the ULTIMATE Cool But Hard As Hell suggestion: Integrate it into DPaint
- > 3/4.
- > This HAS been done before; there was a program that let you do animation in
- > DP2, which had no animation capabilities.
- > As an artist and a programmer, i can tell you that it's a real pain drawing
- > pictures designed for intense copperlists. (for instance, i have a small
- > program that throws up one of two built-in pictures during my boot, with
- > copperlists on them; the images are only 4 bitplanes but have 40-50 colors
- > displayed, counting some duplicates.)
- > Of course, i also realize that this would be a real pain in the arse to
- > DO...
-
- Hmm, yeah it might be pretty damn difficult to integrate it into Dpaint.
- Let's see, you'd have to steal their copperlist, replace it with your own and
- that's just for the display. For one, that's not very nice :-), and secondly,
- it can present a lot of problems. You'd have to have a VB interrupt running
- to check every frame to see if the current screen is on the dpaint screen or
- not, and if so, then adjust the copperlist etc. And that's just for the
- display.. never mind integrating your own commands into dpaint.
-
- What someone else HAS suggested, and what will definitely be implemented is to
- take an IFF image and overlay it on the screen. This way you can edit both
- background color or any other color register for the image on the screen. Of
- course, you can't edit the image simultaneously but just this in itself can
- help solve a lot of copperlist headaches. You don't have to keep reassembling
- to see if your copper colors are in the 'exact' right place etc. Not as good
- as being able to do it in Dpaint directly, but I guess a good compromise.
-
- If you or anyone else has any further suggestions, please email me and
- if it's viable, I'll make sure it's incorporated in the code.
-
- > ...maybe i should just suggest this one to EA, when i send them the letter
- > telling them all the problems with DP4's implementation (mainly that
- > horrible sluggish palette and range requestor...)
-
- Yeah, the palette and range requestors really suck the big one.. especially
- considering that you need to access it often, especially when originally
- designing the palette for the image.
-