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<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<************** AniPaint **************>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> AniPaint 3D Animator 1.6 copyright (c) 1994,95 Rick Sobie e-mail address Rick.Sobie@f204.n340.z1.fidonet.org Thank You for choosing AniPaint. If you intend to keep it after a 30 day period of evaluation, you are required to register it. When you register this copy, special features will become available to you. See REGISTER.DOC for details. To register or configure AniPaint, run CONFIGIT. Paint Studio $20 U.S. CAD Studio $29 U.S. Canadian at par Total $49 U.S. --------------------------------------------------------------------- -*** Special Offer ***- Upload this program to 3 BBS' and get the whole package for $30 - Just include the 3 phone numbers and locations in your letter. - Upload to 5 and get an extra bonus utility. Your sysop will thank you, I will thank you, members will thank you... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- C:\ANI\README.1ST *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*==*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* IMPORTANT CONFIGURATION INSTRUCTIONS ....... Line #:73 Using the mouse ............................. Line #:100 To get a fast start: ........................ Line #:192 Computer Animation .......................... Line #:211 Packaging a Sequence with PKUNZIP ........... Line #:277 Using AniPaint .............................. Line #:555 Optimizing your System for AniPaint ......... Line #:599 Files List that should be with this pack .... Line #:663 Important Notes for Uploading to BBS's ...... Line #:849 Bulletin Board Service Upload Descriptio .... Line #:873 Resellers, Vendors, CDROM manufacturers, .... Line #:899 Shareware Authors ......................... Line #:911 Licensing and Disclaimer .................... Line #:923 Diagnostics ................................. Line #:964 Config.sys .................................. Line #:970 Autoexec.bat ................................ Line #:980 Message from the Author: It seems that there is an ever widening gap between those who have been computing for some time, and those whose are just starting to explore the joys of computing and telecomputing. Fewer and fewer people are learning DOS as Windows affords a much easier way to get started. This program is a DOS program and as such is built with DOS users in mind. Nonetheless, the responsibility to make the program useable by everyone still lies with the author. Much of computing requires pre-knowledge of words and abbreviations foreign to beginners. Read as much as you can on the subject of graphics and you will get far more use out of this program. Just a footnote about my included examples. Due to the cost of uploading and downloading, I try to keep my demos and examples small and to the point, using clip art for backgrounds and limiting the number of frames etc. It is far from the capabilities of this program. If you have any artistic talent at all, you will be able to produce far better animation than the examples and demos that you will find in this program. Have fun, that's what it is all about and why I made this program. Activate learn-mode in the Options Menu for on-going help. Use the Help Button and print from line# to line# if you want, or print the entire manual using CONFIGIT. See \HELPDOCS\HELPINDX.DOC for master index of topics. IMPORTANT CONFIGURATION INSTRUCTIONS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Minimum 286 with VGA Adapter and Microsoft compatible mouse required. If you do not have a math co-processor installed, the CAD module will be extremely slow on your machine. A 486 has a built-in math co-processor. The CAD module uses real number arithmetic to provide the necessary accuracy for the best quality of images. You need the line FILES=30 in your CONFIG.SYS (at least 30). You need Lots of free disk space. 5 to 10 meg or more. You need lots of conventional memory so load DOS and anything else you can High. If you intend on creating full screen animation sequences of more than 30 frames, you should use a ramdrive. (imitation disk made of extra ram) Your animation will run faster and smoother if you do. If not, your system will slow right down after about frame 30 as the frames are read from disk. (see your DOS manual on optimizing your system). ** C:\WINDOWS\SMARTDRV.EXE will speed up the program considerably. ** ( NOT C:\DOS\SMARTDRV.SYS ) See the end of this document for example config.sys file and autoexec.bat. If not set up correctly it will run SLOW!! The program can now be put anywhere providing CONFIGIT can find it in your PATH command. COMMAND.COM also. You may want to put the line SET COMSPEC= (where command.com is) if it is not in your path or if AniPaint can't find it. Use INSTALME.EXE to install the program. Using the mouse ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Throughout the program during tool use, Mouse Button 1 (usually the left mouse button) is used as enter or action. Mouse Button 2 is used as "move pen" (an expression for lifting any tool off the page) or Cancel. Both mouse buttons at the same time is "Done". Done with tool, done watching animation, home the cursor. Clicking Both mouse Buttons at the same time is done in a certain way to insure that -in the process of clicking both buttons- you don't press Button 1 and perform action (like drawing) or accidentally click button 2 when you intended to click both buttons. There are three ways to click both mouse buttons at the same time. 1) You hold down mouse button 1 and while holding, depress mouse button 2. 2) You hold down mouse button 2 and while holding it down you depress mouse button 1. 3) You try and hit them simultaneously. The last is a hit and miss method that leads to frustration. That is why we use method 1 or method 2. Double clicking is rarely used and never timed between presses, because some people find that method very awkward. So, if we want to terminate the current process such as drawing with a pen, and at the same time not cancel what we just did, we hold button 1 and press button two. This is a positive completion. If we do intend to end a process and either cancel or we are just finished and don't wish to draw any more lines, we hold button 2 and depress button 1.This is a neutral or negative completion. Some people may say, alright we got it the first time and we have done it that way for years, but in observing people learning this program, that seems to be the most difficult thing for some people to get the hang of. There are a few other slightly unusual mouse methods such as: 1) You can speed up a paste or paint operation by moving your mouse sideways back and forth. 2) You can answer Yes with Button 1 (unless the answer is important enough to warrant a key press thereby ruling out accidents) 3) You can answer No with Button 2. 4) Any mouse button or key, when finished reading a message, to continue. Some tools require a different approach due to the action they perform such as: 1) Mouse Button 1 to increment a number by clicking on it. 2) Mouse Button 2 to decrement a number by clicking on it. 3) Mouse Button 1 next choice or scroll forward. 4) Mouse Button 2 for previous choice or to scroll backward. Mouse button 1 is positive, mouse button 2 is negative. That is what it comes down to. If you keep that in mind and relate all processes to "Am I trying to perform an action that relates to positive, or am I trying to perform an activity that requires a negative action or reply." with a little practice it will become automatic for you. Very often when you look at the screen, you will find a help line of text telling you which button to press and what it does. Also, while inside a dialog box, and you are given a choice of options, you can click B1 on the light button to toggle it On/Off. If an option is suggested or the default, then the light button will be On and a check mark will appear beside it. By clicking B1 on the light or sentence beside it, you can select and deselect options. You can adjust the mouse with the Upper "Options" Menu. It can also go on a grid between 1 and eight pixels. 8 is maximum sensitivity. If you find the mouse is too slow, then go to your mouse directory C:\MOUSE and choose CPANEL and set your horizontal and vertical sensitivity. You can add the switch MOUSE /sn to autoexec.bat where n is a number between 5 and 100. You can also set mouse activity profiles 1..4 to move a greater distance when you move fast, smaller distance when you move slow. eg: lh C:\MOUSES\MOUSE /p3 See your Microsoft Mouse users manual for more information. If you are not using a Microsoft mouse look for a setup or mouse control file in your mouse directory. Without mouse control set properly in your mouse directory and the delays set correctly in AniPaint or CONFIGIT, it is like drawing with your left hand if you are right handed. Set correctly, you should be able to write your name with the mouse. You may also want to clean your mouse. I use mouse /v100 That is maximum vertical speed and distance of movement. Horizontal is fine the way it is for me. It also depends on the size of your screen. If you are using a different type of pointing device than a Microsoft mouse, look for a compatibility switch or compatibility information in your pointing device documentation. You may get a runtime error 200 divide by 0. If so you may want to ask your dealer why. To get a fast start: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1) Run INSTALME.EXE, it will create the path file _ANIPATH.PTH This will allow AniPaint to find the necessary files. 2) Run CONFIGIT.EXE to configure the program. Default, Learn-Mode On. 3) Run the demos in the program. 4) Run the Tutorials in the program under the "Help" Button (top right). 5) Press Mouse Button 1 on the "Files" button in the top left corner of the main file area, and select New. 6) Read the Manuals. 7) Click Both mouse buttons on each Icon for individual tool instructions. If you have a basic understanding of computer graphics, you will find hours of fun exploring options. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Animation ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This program is designed for animation of graphic images. It uses vector graphics,(2 and 3D CAD line and point locations) and bitmapped graphics, (VCX, PCX blocks of pixels in the Paint Studio). It has many features and may be confusing to a novice. I recommend you learn the Paint Studio first and get an understanding of how the mouse is used and some of the short cut keys on the keyboard. If you jump right into the 3D CAD without any background at all, you may become frustrated and give up. Once you understand how the program works you will be able to: * Zoom Full screen backgrounds in and out a little at a time to show movement towards and away. see Demos - Full Screen- 2 or the 4th zip file 20 frame sequence. * Produce blocks of animation that can be placed on backgrounds. see SAMPLES.ACT for a playable animation script of examples. * Produce 320x200 Full Screen VGA frames for conversion to PCX and then to FLI or - 640x480+ FLC - format for sharing with others. * Write a script to reuse frames out of chronological order to stretch their quantity. * Add special effects and text to create presentations or instructional displays etc. see *.ACT * Put all the resources of this program together to produce moving backgrounds, superimposed transparencies of animated figures, special effects and rotatable photo-realistic objects. * If you are a serious animator and have the necessary equipment, you can work in 1024x768x256+ and capture 640x480x256+ frames, dump them to PCX, then to any number of available formats such as FLC using utilities designed for that purpose, creating high resolution photo-realistic animation. * Just a footnote concerning disk space. If you intend to do more than small little amusing bits, you need plenty of disk space. You will get nowhere trying to do animation with with 1 or 2 meg. 60 or 70 meg free will allow you the freedom to move. If you use VCX and Zip them, you get fantastic compression. It is 25% smaller than a zipped FLI made from PCX by DTA. (Dave's Targa Animator) Over 200% smaller than a Ping/Pong FLI sequence because Anipaint, by default, will Ping Pong a sequence with one set of clips. A zipped VCX is 20% smaller than a GIF or a zipped GIF. This is not a small amount we are talking about here, it is a full 20 % smaller and will load and paste in any resolution without prior conversion after it is unzipped. If you can find a file format beside JPEG that gives greater compression I would love to hear about it. (JPEG washes out the image in most cases. A Zipped VCX is 100 % preserved.) There is a new Russian compression utility called RAR or something that may compress better than Zip but I do not know if it is as reliable as Zip. My apologies to Yoshi, but LHA has mangled files for me in the past. It happened when I used the DOS Backup command on a LZH. It may not be his fault directly but it is not completely compatible with Backup if the file is larger than 1 floppy. It may have been fixed by now. Packaging a Sequence with PKUNZIP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ !! This program will unpack ZIP files if you have PKUNZIP in your path command. It will also save your sequences neatly and packed better than converting them to FLI via PCX. All you do is ZIP them with PKZIP If AniPaint sees this extension *.ZIP it assumes it is a zipped file. The fourth file accompanying this program is a file like that. It is renamed to ZI_ so you wouldn't clutter up your default directory with 20 more files. Clips should be kept in your CLIPS directory. That is where they are automatically put when made. The program will rename it ASAMPLE.ZIP and unzip it into your CLIPS directory for you to edit, then display the sequence full screen. Run the Full Screen Demos, under the DEMOS Button to make it happen. When you are finished creating a sequence yourself, and you are finished your AniPaint session, you simply go to DOS and make a directory. Copy all the clips you want into it. Zip up that directory. Copy the ZIP file to your AniPaint directory, and then you can delete all the copies. This will dramatically increase your disk space. Here is a simple batch file that will do it for you PACK.BAT name of file ******************************************* MD C;\ANI\MYSHOW COPY C:\ANI\CLIPS\CAD*.VCX C:\ANI\MYSHOW CD C:\ANI\MYSHOW PKZIP MYSHOW ******************************************* When it is finished you simply use the copy command Copy MYSHOW.ZIP C:\ANI\newname.ZIP Then delete the old copies DEL C:\ANI\MYSHOW\*.* The sequence, now in ZIP format will remain protected, always intact, and extremely compressed. 20 frames unzipped 1.6 meg compressed 480k much less if it contains large blocks of similar color. Unzip them to your ramdrive in the CLIPS subdirectory if you have the room there. Clips load and run faster and smoother there. They disappear when you turn off your computer though, so be sure to use the backup option on exit, or zip them up and copy the zip to your harddrive. However, before you package an animated sequence, you need the freedom to move huge amounts of files from place to place and from one format to another. Once completed you can delete all your, almost, not quite, copies and transitional formats. Before you get to the last few points you should first: 1) Understand Clips (Clip Board Files or Animation Frames or Cells). * How to capture them. * Naming them with a 3 Letter Prefixes that will identify them numerically as a group. eg: CLP###.VCX In this example "CLP" is the Clip Prefix. * How to paste, edit, or manipulate them in a window or out. 2) Be able to display your clips in numerical order with the Projector Icon in the Paint Studio. * Or ACT2 Room where you arrange the order of appearance in a script. * Or the Drive-In Icon for Faster Machines in SVGA. 3) Understand 3D CAD and how to create, edit and manipulate realistic looking 3 Dimensional Objects. * Understand X,Y and Z coordinates. * Be able to use ZOOM, In and Out. * Be able to use Clips from the Paint Studio as transparencies, (Black Color #0 Background) prefix CLP (CLP###.VCX). * Create a series of Clips with the Projector Icon in the 3D CAD Studio. Clip Prefix "CAD" (CAD###.VCX). 4) Be able use the CAD options in a *.P3D window * POINTS.P3D is the name of the temporary file in the CAD studio. * Options will add backgrounds, switch from lines to filled gradient polygons etc. * Understand how to Bisect the plane XYZ at Z and how to copy objects in reverse order of appearance to the Objectboard. (vector clipboard) 5) Be able to put it all together using the Projector Icon in the 3D CAD studio. * Choose options to provide moving, shrinking, growing, backgrounds between frames. The background moving back (shrinking), or closer (larger), or to the left or right, fools the eye into believing it is the camera moving. * Rotate shrink and grow 3D objects on any axis a chosen number of degrees in any direction. * Add transparencies with matching Clip Count numbers. eg: Background name : VCXTEMP.VCX - Bitmap used as temporary picture file in Paint Studio 3D Object File : POINTS.P3D - Vector Point file used as temporary in 3D CAD Studio Target Frame after processing: CAD21.VCX - Bitmap Clip Board with prefix "CAD" Matching Transparency : CLP21.VCX - Bitmap Clip Board with CLP Prefix. First Background is displayed, then Objects rotated, then transparency added, then CAD21.VCX is captured. It can then be Antialiased (blended), or dither added (dot shading) any number of times. When the desired number of frames is reached, it will display the animation full screen or as chosen. * You can then save the rotation movements if you want. Suppose you find an XYZ rotation combination that imitates gravity, or a bounce or turn that you really like, you can save the settings and apply it again at a later date to a completely different object and get the same movement. * You can rename all the CAD clips to CLP to use them as backgrounds or transparencies and do the entire process again and again to layer your animation and have as many different things moving and animating all over the place as you want. Just as a cartoon like The Simpsons or Flintstones are not limited in the amount of animation they can put on screen at any one time. AniPaint 3D CAD can paste bitmaps directly into 3D vector. You don't need to rotate an object completely around to benefit from this. It could be a flat image. It will still benefit from the increased movement and size management that vector offers. An example of conventional bitmapped animation would be flipping pages that have a drawing on it that moves slightly each page. To calculate the frame speed, just count: one thousand two thousand, three thousand from the start frame to the top of the turn around loop. Then divide the number of frames by the number of seconds. The sequence will reverse at the top of the loop. If you have the fourth zip file containing the example 320x200x256 20 frame sequence, you will see that it throws 20+ full screen frames per second on a 50 Mz 486. You can get other equipment to convert the images to video if you are serious about it. Unlimited number of Frames : * You can calculate each frame at 64772 bytes per frame at 320x200 full screen VGA. (SVGA is user defined size by computer speed). 90 frames zipped: approx 768,000 bytes. unzipped: 90 * 64772 The entire process could take an experienced user 15 minutes to create an object, render it, and process 50 frames. A reasonable length short sequence. Even less if you have a library of objects already made and a good choice of PCX or VCX on file. You could then write a batch file to use VCX2PCX to size and dump the finished clips to PCX for conversion to FLI or FLC or add it to a script and write another, or process each frame with filters individually, etc. VCX2PCX works like this: - Make a subdirectory \SHOW - Copy your sequence, say CAD21.VCX...CAD51.VCX to \SHOW - Then on the commandline at DOS type VCX2PCX C:\ANI\SHOW\CAD*.VCX *.PCX -It then takes all the matching VCX files in \SHOW converts them to PCX in about 15 seconds. Then you could use DTA with : DTA c:\ani\show\cad*.PCX /ff /oMY.FLI /r1 to convert it to FLI. Substitute /r1 with /r? where ? is the number corresponding to the resolution you desire. (The captured frames would have been made at the same intended size previously of course, or resized with VCX2PCX by adding the switch /s640x480 or whatever size, to create FLC.) You could also write a batch file to do the entire process, call it RUN1.BAT and choose that Icon in the Paint Studio. You get VCX2PCX Free when you register. Registration is required for some of the other options as well. Fabricate that part using brass tubes or other metals, have it assemble, rotate and disassemble, or make your own commercials, or music video special effects, or create a great sequence for a trade show or other work related task, or just have a blast amazing your friends. AniPaint uses files with extension VCX for bitmaps. It has compatibility with Windows and programs like Paint Brush and Auto Cad ver 12 by importing and exporting PCX files. This option requires registration. There are many ways to create animation with this program. The CAD process will achieve excellent results. There are over 300 graphic tools, some with multiple processes. such as: * Import/Export PCX * Run FLI's * Capture palettes and partial palettes or cut and paste palettes * Capture a Font Set from another program or scanned page * Automatically Catalogue images, animation, and fonts. * Fade in and Fade out. * Draw or Paint images up to 2048x1024 in 256 colors. * ACT1 animation 100x80 zoomable and placeable on an image background up to 2048x1024 in 256 colors. * ACT2 320x200 animation full screen 320x200 VGA or on an image up to 20484x1024 in 256 colors. * Create a script file and play back your animation in presentation form. * Greyscale and retain the palette or Map the colors. * Un-Dither a 2 color scanned image back to greyscale then to 3D CAD. * Warp Images into different shapes. (Oh Noooo I'm melting...') If you like morfing, AniPaint has fast morf warping. CTRL-O and "*" "*" warps the previous clip into the current clip shape. * ACT1 animation now in any size. * VCX2PCX size & conversion for paid registered users. * New Compasses and Protractor for drawing arcs. * New Freehand Draw Tool with increased control. * New Fast Undo for speedier program operations. * New Fast Greyscale Color Sort and Map routines. * New Antialias filter. Soften or unjag without sorting or greyscaling. * PCX auto palette sort options under PCX pathmask button. * New Fast Undo/Redo And Autosave. Svga 256 only * Dither on top of image and retain the image color. * Metallic brass, nickel, steel, lead, aluminum, gold etc. for 3D complex objects. * Full screen animation processor under the Projector Icon in the 3D CAD studio. * Lay on transparencies like the pros. * Does the laundry, the dishes and will rotate the tires on your car. (just kidding about the last one :->) If you like to draw, or you like drafting, or are an animator, or an educator or like to make videos, or just want to get into the computer graphic arts, you should enjoy this program. At first it will probably seem confusing. Learning the file types and how the clip boards work. Mastering some of the more technical and specialized tools and effects. What's the best tool to use at which particular moment. Play around with it and you will soon be cutting and pasting palettes together to make specialized textures like Corinthian leather or 14 karat gold. Bluescreening in photographic backgrounds, simulating gravity or having objects twirling and exploding out in all directions at the same time. ******************************************************************* A special thanks to those who have made suggestions and offered support, financial and moral. This version is dedicated to you. ******************************************************************* A special thanks to my friend Peter Brewer in the U.K. who helped me to see the forest through the trees. :> If it is not working as you would expect, or if something seems terribly wrong or inconsistent, you may have a corrupt copy. Copies get corrupted during transfer sometimes or incomplete copies occasionally get uploaded. If this happens, write me for a proper working copy. Don't give incomplete copies away only give your original compressed copy or one created by CONFIGIT. If you are running Windows, Windows steals cpu time checking for keyboard and mouse activity. In case you task switch or get a fax or whatever. Because of this the program slows down its operation. Also if you have sound On, you will hear little auditory clues during program operation. Little clicks signifying screen capture and that sort of thing. If you get a file error you will hear a beep. If Windows is running, and it steals some cpu time during the delay span of a click, it will turn that click into a beep. Just ignore it and if it bothers you because it is too loud for an office environment, disable sound, or run the program from DOS without Windows running in the background. It runs at least 30 % faster that way. Auditory clues are very helpful a least to begin with. Using AniPaint ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1) Click on the Upper "Files" Button or the "FS" button beside the Filenames/Directory toggle button. It will prompt you for a pathmask. Accept the default and it will create a file list containing the PCX on your default Drive. 2) Click mouse button 1 on the filename and the screen goes all grey while the PCX is converted to VCX, then it loads into a window. 3) Push Buttons. Almost everything that looks like a button does something. For a file list containing examples: 1) Click on the Path Line (above the pathmask button) to enter a pathmask. 2) Enter the pathmask *.CFG 3) Click on EXAMP256.CFG A saved workspace loads. A file list appears on the left side. (Screen size above VGA 320x200) (Use the top left corner button for VGA) Click on the small file folder beside the name to load the file into a window. 4) Push buttons. Each type of file has its own options contained in dialog boxes. Start with Learn-Mode On in CONFIGIT OPTIONS *.CFG also contain mouse setting information so you may have to readjust your delays in a HELP button dialog box. The Zoom and Color Buttons work with Both mouse Buttons, right and left. One goes one way and the other goes in the reverse direction. Also whenever you see a black box with white numbers in it, __________ like this | 21 | x--------- Click here in a number |__________| dialog box to enter the ^ ^ number on the command line. | |------------ Click here to decrease or | increase by 10. | Click here to decrease or increase by 1 If it zooms through too fast, set the mouse delay with the mouse set icon in any dialog box. Optimizing your System for AniPaint ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A good system would be a 486 66Mhz with 8 meg of RAM, an SVGA Monitor with a VESA compatible display adapter with 1 meg of on-board memory. If you have a older system, try the DOS Shell in Windows. It will at least provide SMARTDRV.EXE disk cache and maybe some ems memory. AniPaint does not require Extended or Expanded memory but it's operation is enhanced. A minimum 286 CPU is required. Anything less is too slow. Your math coprocessor will be used if one exists. If one doesn't, I hope you are a very patient person. A 486 has one built in. If Expanded memory (EMS) is available AniPaint will automatically load the program itself into it and run from there. (approx. 1.5 meg needed, autodetected at runtime - LIM standard). Microsoft Windows can create EMS from your Hard Disk C:. It will however lessen your free space on C: so make plenty of space available. I load SMARTDRV.EXE and run AniPaint from DOS. See my setup at the end of this document. Make as much space on drive C: available as possible. What you can do depends on how much space you have. The program will not operate correctly if drive C: becomes full. AniPaint uses your hardrive as a virtual disk when your ramdrive becomes full or when it is not available. You cannot run AniPaint from floppies. Only use resolutions that you know are O.K. to use with your monitor. See your monitor documentation. Autodetection defaults to 640x480 16 color VGA mode. I highly recommend 640x480x256 SVGA mode for normal use. Read DRIVERS.DOC for help with drivers. AniPaint may conflict with memory resident programs. Trial and error is the only way to find out. If the system locks up, reboot and "rem" them out. You may want to create a batch file that uses one copy of CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT for AniPaint. See your DOS manual. Use the FULL SCREEN option in the Paint Studio when in 320x200 mode. The screen is too small for any serious work. You may be better off using 640x480x16 then switching the palettes later to 256 color if you are confined to standard VGA. Anipaint uses VCX. They are device independent bitmaps. That means you can capture an area in 16 color mode and paste it in 256 color mode. Older PCX files or 16 color or less, are converted to 2 colors with a 256 color palette. In 16 color mode, only the first 16 palette color entries are visible. If you have a machine with a CPU speed of less than 50 Mhz, see Speeding up the Program at the end of SCREENRM.DOC. See your DOS manual on Optimizing your System for more info. Remember Use INSTALME to install and CONFIGIT to configure the program correctly. (Type INSTALME at DOS in the ANIPAINT or selected directory, where INSTALME should be.) Files List that should be with this package ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ANIPAINT.EXE Main Program File BIN1.FLE BIN2.FLE BIN3.FLE Program Binary Data Files BIN4.FLE BIN5.FLE BIN6.FLE BIN7.FLE BIN8.FLE BIN9.FLE *.ACT is used for script command files BIN10.FLE BIN11.FLE *.ANI is used for 100x80 animation files BIN12.FLE BIN13.FLE *.VCX is used for bitmapped pictures BIN14.FLE BIN15.FLE *.PNT is used for 2D vector line drawings BIN16.FLE BIN17.FLE *.P3D is used for 3D vector line & bitmap BIN18.FLE BIN19.FLE *.RUN is used for stick people files BIN20.FLE BIN21.FLE *.PAL is used for palette files BIN22.FLE BIN23.FLE *.PCX is the Export and Import picture format BIN24.FLE BIN25.FLE If the word "TEMP" appears in the filename, BIN26.FLE the file is temporary and may be overwritten BIN27.FLE or deleted at any time. BIN28.FLE BIN29.FLE BIN30.FLE BIN31.FLE BIN32.FLE BIN33.FLE BIN34.FLE BIN35.FLE BIN36.FLE BIN37.FLE BIN38.FLE BIN39.FLE BIN40.FLE BIN41.FLE INSTALME.EXE Path Installer creates _ANIPATH.PTH FNTSPALS.LST List of all included Fonts and Palettes SAMPVECT.RUN Sample Stick Figure Animation. EGAVGA.BGI EGA and VGA 16 color graphics driver VGA256.BGI VGA 256 color graphics driver VESA16.BGI VESA compatible SVGA 16 color graphics driver SVGA16.BGI Super VGA 16 color graphics driver SVGA256.BGI Super VGA 256 color graphics driver IBM8514.BGI IBM8514 256 color graphics driver ATT.BGI ATT400 graphics driver ALTERNATE DRIVER SET BGI256.BGI 320x200 to 2048x1024 256 color BGI256V2.BGI TRI256.BGI Trident driver TRI256V2.BGI V7BGI256.BGI Video 7 driver V7256V2.BGI BOLD CHR EURO CHR GOTH CHR LCOM CHR LITT CHR 10 Program Fonts SANS CHR SCRI CHR SIMP CHR TRIP CHR TSCR CHR ANIPAINT.PIF Microsoft Windows file for those users ANIPAINT.ICO Two Icons for use in Microsoft Windows ANICFGIT.ICO for Windows users. (These icon are not AniPaint compatible and cannot be loaded into AniPaint.) CONFIGIT.EXE Configuration Utility needed for setup REGFORM.TXT Registration Form REGISTER.DOC Registration information. README.1ST This file FILE_ID.DIZ Program Upload Description for BBS's SVGADEMO.ACT Sample SVGA 640x480 256 color Act script SAMPLE.ACT Sample SVGA 640x480 256 Presentation script VGADEMO.ACT Sample VGA 320x200 256 color Act script 16DEMO.ACT Sample VGA 640x480 16 color Act script FONTS.ACT Sample SVGA 640x480 256 color Act script P3D.P3D Sample 3D Vector file INSTALME.EXE Path file installer. These below are unpacked by CONFIGIT with the install Option ************************************************************ C:\ANIPAINT\DEMOS\DEMOVCX.VCX Sample VCX picture 256 color C:\ANIPAINT\DEMOS\OPSCRN.VCX Sample VCX 16 or 256 color C:\ANIPAINT\SKY.PCX Sample ver 5 PCX 256 colors 8 Sample Act1 Animation files C:\ANIPAINT\DEMOS\HNDPOINT.ANI 16 or 256 colors C:\ANIPAINT\DEMOS\FPLACE.ANI 16 or 256 colors C:\ANIPAINT\DEMOS\BFLY.ANI 16 or 256 colors C:\ANIPAINT\DEMOS\THEAD.ANI 16 or 256 colors C:\ANIPAINT\DEMOS\RUNNER2.ANI 16 or 256 colors C:\ANIPAINT\DEMOS\FONTS.ANI 16 or 256 colors C:\ANIPAINT\DEMOS\CHRIS.ANI 256 color mode only C:\ANIPAINT\DEMOS\DINO4.ANI 256 color mode only C:\ANIPAINT\DEMOS\PAINTER.ANI 256 color mode only C:\ANIPAINT\DEMOS\WINDEMO.SHW Window Action Help File C:\ANIPAINT\DEMOS\ICO10.ICO Sample ICOCURTAINNAME: C:\ANIPAINT\DEMOS\SPOCKTOK.FLI Sample Fli morf animation C:\ANIPAINT\DEMOS\SAMPLES.P3D Sample Complex 3D object C:\ANIPAINT\STAMPS\STAMP1.VCX 2 color Clip Art C:\ANIPAINT\STAMPS\STAMP2.VCX 256 color Clip Art C:\ANIPAINT\STAMPS\STAMP3.VCX 256 color Clip Art C:\ANIPAINT\OBJECTS\ARROWS.PNT Object Library of arrows C:\ANIPAINT\OBJECTS\SIMPGRAF.PNT Blank Simple Graph Object C:\ANIPAINT\OBJECTS\FLOWER.PNT Flower Sample traced Object C:\ANIPAINT\OBJECTS\REDTAPE.PNT Sample 2D object C:\ANIPAINT\HELPDOCS\SCREENRM.DOC Screening Room help file. C:\ANIPAINT\HELPDOCS\ANIMATE.DOC Animation and 3D CAD help file. C:\ANIPAINT\HELPDOCS\STUDIO.DOC Paint Studio help file. C:\ANIPAINT\HELPDOCS\CYBRFIND.DOC CybrFind help file C:\ANIPAINT\HELPDOCS\HELPINDX.DOC Full program reference C:\ANIPAINT\HELPDOCS\FILEINFO.DOC Error handling help file C:\ANIPAINT\HELPDOCS\DRIVERS.DOC Graph Drivers help file C:\ANIPAINT\HELPDOCS\CUTTNGRM.DOC ACT1 animation help File C:\ANIPAINT\HELPDOCS\PRINTQ&A.DOC Printing help File C:\ANIPAINT\PALETTES\16*.PAL 16 color palettes C:\ANIPAINT\PALETTES\*.PAL 256 color palettes C:\ANIPAINT\FONTS\*.FNT AniPaint Stroked Font Files C:\ANIPAINT\FONTS\*.KAR AniPaint Bitmapped Font Files C:\ANIPAINT\EXAMP256.CFG An example workspace. There are other files created when AniPaint is used but the above should be there to insure proper operation of AniPaint Important If any files are missing, you have a corrupted copy and should write me for a complete copy. Once registered, only use CONFIGIT to move or give AniPaint. It will not work otherwise. ===================================================================== Here is the directory structure created by CONFIGIT C:\ANIPAINT DEMOS - | - HELPDOCS / | \ STAMPS OBJECTS CLIPS FONTS PALETTES All are subdirectories of C:\ANIPAINT or whatever default you choose. DEMOS - Will contain the Demo Files STAMPS - Contains the Clip Art CLIPS - Your Clip Board Files will be put here if you use C: (If a ramdrive is available ?:\CLIPS will be created) OBJECTS - Sample Vector graphic PNT files FONTS - Sample Fonts created by the program. PALETTES - Menu and Sample Color Palettes created by the program HELPDOCS - Help files and Documentation. If you change this structure the program will not operate correctly. All files should be left where they are put by CONFIGIT. Important Notes for Uploading to BBS's ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This program should be of valuable use for years to come. However, BBS's are more and more insisting that files contained in the program be less than 6 mos or so old. If you find that the BBS you wish to upload this program to does not have AniPaint, but the age of the files do not meet their requirements then you should phone or write me for a current version. Address at the end. Also when you upload to some boards they check their lists for duplicates. Due to a flaw in the detection logic the second zip file almost always fails the quick upload test and gets pegged as a duplicate. Not to worry, your sysop will no doubt be well aware of this problem and group them all together when the proper sorting is done. If you make sure that the lines file #1 of 3 FIle #2 of 3 and file # 3 of 3 there should be no problem. Important! If you want the program to work after you give it to someone, give your original compressed copy or use PACK for giving in CONFIGIT. It will make one large or three small groups ready for compression. Bulletin Board Service Upload Descriptions ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SHORT 1 liner: AniPaint 3D Animator 1.6 Paint & Animate 5 Line Description: AniPaint 3D 1.6 Animator Paint & Animate 300+ tools .VGA, SVGA to 2048x1024. Make movies, presentations etc. Docs & Demos. Bitmap/Vector, Undo/Redo, Run FLI's mouse req. Import/Export PCX. Verbose Description: AniPaint 3D Animator 1.6 CAD, Paint and Animation 256 colors.Requires minimum 286 with VGA or SVGA and mouse. Resolutions from 320x200 to 2048x1024. Make animated movies, Presentations etc. Complete Documentation and Demos. Bitmap & Vector graphics with Clip Art and Objects. Font editor, Font Capture, Capture Palettes, Cut & Paste palettes, Undo/Redo with Autosave, Gradient Curves, Magnetic Lines, Screen Saver. Disk Search, Cybrfind intelligent phrase search Utility, Automatically Catalogue Images/Fonts/Animation. Easy to install, Complete photo editing with greyscale. Import/Export PCX, Run FLI's. Dither, Half tone, 5+ meg unzipped. Now faster undo, faster animation, Antialiasing, smoother operation, new cursors, new learn-mode. Easy to use 3D CAD with metals and Animation. New Docs. Resellers, Vendors, CDROM manufacturers, Catalogue companies etc. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You are hereby granted the right to distribute this program in unregistered complete form on any media, in any way including such things as bundled software with hardware, free promotions, etc. providing: 1) All copyright notices remain intact. 2) The program is complete and unregistered. 3) You pay one full registration of $49 U.S. to show me that you support the Shareware concept. Shareware Authors ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Feel free to group this program with yours when sending your program to someone if it benefits the end user in any way, providing it is unregistered and complete and the end user understands that I will not provide support for your program. If they register I will provide support for mine. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following is the standard disclaimers and licensing information that goes with all applications of this type. Licensing and Disclaimer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ OWNERSHIP: Except to the extent expressly licensed by me, I have and reserve the exclusive copyright and other right, title and interest concerning the Program and all versions of it, including utilities and all other program files accompanying the program excluding those files that carry copyright notices other than by Rick Sobie. (Drivers and .CHR) You are encouraged to upload unregistered original copies to bulletin boards and give unregistered copies to your friends. It is a violation of copyright and this license agreement to give, upload or otherwise distribute any copy of AniPaint that is registered. Each copy of AniPaint requires it's own registration number as provided by me, once consideration is received by me. Commercial site licenses are also available for school, government, business or other agency use. Discounts are available for volume. It is a violation of this agreement to remove any copyright notice that appears anywhere in any file in this package. You may not alter or disassemble or attempt to bypass any copyright protection without risk of penalty. THE PROGRAM IS PROVIDED "AS-IS". NO WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, ARE MADE AS TO IT OR ANY MEDIUM IT MAY BE ON. I WILL PROVIDE NO REMEDY FOR INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES ARISING FROM IT, INCLUDING SUCH FROM NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, OR BREACH OF WARRANTY OR CONTRACT, EVEN AFTER NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. Since I would be irreparably damaged if any part of this License were breached, I will be entitled without bond, other security or proof of damages, to appropriate equitable remedies with respect to breaches of the above, in addition to such other remedies as I may have. You will hold me harmless from damage, loss and expense arising directly or indirectly from your acts and omissions in copying and distributing the Program. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Diagnostics ~~~~~~~~~~~ I am using a 486 50mhz with 8 meg ram 1 meg 1024x768x256 Paradise compatible display Config.sys ~~~~~~~~~~ DEVICE=C:\DOS\SETVER.EXE DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS DOS=HIGH,umb devicehigh=c:\ansi.sys FILES=30 BUFFERS=30 device=c:\dos\ramdrive.sys 3096 512 /e (optional) --------------------------------------------------------- Autoexec.bat ~~~~~~~~~~~~ lh C:\WINDOWS\SMARTDRV.EXE (this is not the same as C:\DOS\SMARTDRIVE.SYS) @ECHO OFF PROMPT $p$g set mouse=C:\Mouse lh C:\Mouse\mouse /v100 (experiment with different switches) PATH=C:\CPBACKUP;C:\WINDOWS;C:\DOS;c:\ql2faxw; path=C:\anipaint;%path% mirror rem win ( remove the rem if you want to load windows) ----------------------------------------------------------- DOS ver 5 Windows 3.1 Microsoft Mouse and driver 8.20a Command.com in C:\ ----------------------------------------------------------- Comments: Loaded as much as possible into high memory. Created a 3 meg ramdrive D: for temp files. Set the RAMDRIVE option in CONFIGIT to D:\ Added the switch /v100 to increase the vertical sensitivity to the maximum value of the mouse. I run it from DOS or Windows. It runs 30% faster from DOS. If you have a lot of files in the root directory all programs will run slower. If you can, use a utility to defragment or compact your harddisk. Problems: Is your copy corrupted or incomplete? Check mouse delay in Configit? Correct Driver in Configit? Truly Vesa compatible display? Microsoft compatible mouse? Look for a switch in your documentation. Memres utilities? Try running it from Windows using the supplied PIF or in a DOS Shell? Still can't get it to work? e-mail, write or call me. AniPaint copyright (c) 1995 Rick Sobie Configit copyright (c) 1995 Rick Sobie Rick Sobie P.O. Box # 1166 Lake Cowichan, British Columbia Canada V0R 2G0 tel: 604-749-6260 voice Fax by request at the same number e-mail address Rick.Sobie@f204.n340.z1.fidonet.org All other company names mentioned in the documentation of this program are the trademarks or tradenames of the respective companies.