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Click on a title: HELP ON HELP THE DESKTOP MEGASPRITES ANIMATOR ORGANIZER FRACTAL TREES WALLS MEGASPRITES DETAILED MANUAL The MegaSprites' screen Using the mouse in MegaSprites Selecting a color for brush, ellipse, fill area and others Drawing Editing Changing the palette To change a color in the whole drawing Painting and special effects Making a sprite Making a standard icon Making a sprite in ASCII files Viewing sprites in memory Summary of keyboard commands in MegaSprites FORMATS OF SPRITES FILE FORMATS PROBLEMS HELP ON HELP Change line CURSOR UP/DOWN Change page PAGE UP/DOWN Start of help HOME End of help END Close window ESC THE DESKTOP Each program of this software is represented by an icon and you also can see than icons are affected to each sprite file in the current directory, while they can fit in the available space on the screen... To click on an icon allows loading the file. One clicks once to put the cursor on an object, twice launch it. The two mouse buttons equally can be used on menu or on command icons. In other cases, they have not identical effect. In a general manner the left button is for a single act while the right button is for continuous act while held down. Inside drawing windows they have not same function at all. The title bar The desktop shows on the title bar the name of the current sprite file. The button at right of the menu bar is similar to the ESC key for the mouse, and allows to exit a process, to close a window, or to quit VTools. The button at left of the title bar is for displaying copyright and current version. The menu bar To access menu, click on the menu bar or press ALT plus letter which is underlined. Use cursor keys to select an option (up/ down) or change sub-menu (left/right). Press ESC to exit a sub-menu, press ESC again to exit the menu. Here are detailed each function and its shortcut key. FILE Load work l Load previously saved work CTRL+l Load work saved by CTRL+s Save work s Save table of sprites, addresses, types, automaton board. CTRL+s Save addresses and sprite images in separated files. Directory d Open the directory window. Set dir mask x Choose files to be displayed. Set path Home Set drive and access path. Load icon i Load a Window's icon. Quit q Exit VTools. SPRITES MegaSprites M Sprite editor. Automaton A Automaton assembler. Organizer O Memory organizer. Virtual trees F Editor for virtual trees. Three-D view T Display sprites in 3D view. Display all ? Display sprites in memory. PALETTE Change RGB % Change colors. Load pal+RGB r Load colors. Save pal+RGB w Save colors. INFO Help F1 Help screen. System ~ Display formats, sizes, and so on... Internal b Display internal sprite buffer. Beeps on/off - Set/Reset sound. Colors o Dialog box for color preferences. QUIT Quit q Exit VTools. Restart y Restart program with default values. Erase sprites DEL Erase all sprites in memory. Other commands: ENTER: execute an icon. F3, ALT-x: Quit the program. Dialog box for confirmation When a box asks for a Y/N answer, press the left button inside the box to respond 'Y', or click out of the box to say 'N' and cancel. Sometimes, for security, keyboard is required and mouse no allowed. The windows Some windows can be moved and have variable size. In this case, there is a button at left on the title bar, with a 3D box insi- de. If the window can be changed, press ALT-SPACE to enter editing mode, and then use the cursor keys to move the window, or hold down the ALT keys with the cursor keys to change the size. These keys +, -, <, > also allow to change the size. Press ENTER or ESC to exit editing mode. Using a mouse, move it on the border of the window, and when the mouse image is changed, press left button and drag to move or change the size. Press the right mouse button to exit the process, or click on the ESC button at the top of the screen. To change the colors, press ALT-b for the background, ALT-h for the title bar. The directory Press 'd' to display the current directory in a window. The filenames has black letters, and sub-directories red letters. Uses cursor keys or lift at right of the window to select a file and to scroll. Click on a drive icon or sub-directory to change it, click on '..' to return at previous level. Click on a sprite filename (.SPR) or icon filename (.ICO) to load it. To modify the window, press ALT-SPACE or click on borders. Press ESC, or do a mouse click out of the window to close it. File masking The directory display allows use of a combination of masks by file type. Press the 'x' key to open the dialogue box for the selection. The types and extensions are as following: - Work: Sprite files: SPR + WRK extensions. - Screens: PCX, VRT, VGA files. - ICO: Windows' icons. - All files: All files recognized by VTools. - Directories: Sub-directories. Click on the 1...5 button or type the number to set/reset a mask. The program says 'YES', when files will be displayed. Press HOME to restore defaults. Press ENTER to close, or press 'd' to show the directory now. To change drive and path On can set drive and path for files by a press on the 'p' key, and then by typing the drive letter and the path. Example: A:\PIC Dialog box for loading and saving sprites Loading and saving are done with a dialogue box, opened when one presses 'l' for loading, or 's' for saving (or CTRL-l and CTRL-s to have the adresses in a separated file). In this program, only the filename node is read by the program, if an extension is typed the program removes it and replaces it with SPR and WRK extension to save or to load the file. The palette windows (RGB registers) The % command opens the window for RGB registers changing, that don't affect the desktop's colors but those of the sprite edi- tors only. There are two buttons to select the previous or next colors and three bar to change the RGB registers. The registers are temporary affected to the color 9. The dialog box for colors To select an item to change, use the vertical cursor keys. To select the color, use the horizontal cursor keys. Colors of some windows may be changed with the ALT-b key for the background and ALT-h for the title bar, when the window is opened. These color are saved with the file of sprites. MEGASPRITES BRUSH MOVE Numeric keypad COLOR Cursor keys BRUSH UP/DOWN Space bar BIG BRUSH . RUBBER ON/OFF 0 CLEAR DRAWING DEL UNDO u SELECT SPRITE PAGE UP/DOWN GET SPRITE g MAKE SPRITE b 256 colors k 16 colors z Packed MAKE ICON i MAKE ASC IMAGE j REPLACE COLOR c then ENTER LINE l RECTANGLE r ELLIPSE e REVERSE ] Horizontal ~ Vertical SPRAY s FILL AREA f SHADING a from left ALT-a from rigth CUT & PASTE / Tab change window Enter to paste Enter to keep MERGE ONLY @ MERGE & ROTATE * INSERT ROW CTRL-r COLUMN CTRL-o DELETE ROW CTRL-y COLUMN CTRL-w SIZE < > Width - + Heigth SCALE w Then: g to keep Del to cancel SET ANGLE F7 -1 CTRL-F7 -10 ALT-F7 -90 F8 +1 CTRL-F8 +10 ALT-F8 +90 Angle will be used when merging sprite CHANGE PALETTE red: ALT-r R green: ALT-g G blue: ALT-b B QUIT to desktop ESC QUIT to tree F organizer O animator A 3D T MOUSE In the drawing window: PUT CURSOR Click right button DRAW Hold down left button In the zoomed window: GET COLOR Click right button DRAW Hold down left button MEGASPRITES DETAILED MANUAL (Read it from the desktop) The MegaSprites' screen Zoomed Palette for 16 color sprites drawing Inks for color making Sprites Normal in sized 256 color palette Memory drawing Width and height of the sprite are displayed below the image. Number of the in sprite in the table is below this window and available free space in memory is below the grey icons, that are for special effects. Below the inks for color creating are indicators: - at left the indicator for the brush up or down, nothing if brush is up and a filled rectangle if brush is down. - then is the rubber if rubber is on, otherwise nothing. - at right a triangle is shown when one gets a color to copy it elsewhere in the palette, or there are two filled rectangles when one does a color change in the image. There are icons for the ten most usual functions: #1 get image from the memory to the drawing window. #2 clear the drawing. #3 filling. #4 the rabbit and the hat, symbolize the 'undo' function, that comes back to past and restore image as before last act. #5 cut and paste. #6 change a color in the whole image. #7 make a 32 x 32 icon from the image. #8 make a 256 colors sprite from the image. #9 make a compressed 16 colors sprite. #10 return to the desktop. There is also a panel for special effects or other drawing function: shading, rotating, brush width, ellipse, line, rec- tangle, spray... Using the mouse in MegaSprites In the central window: - press left button to draw. Click once or hold down it to paint. - press right button to put the cursor at a location. In the upper magnifying window: - press left button to draw. - press right button to get a color from the drawing. In the left window on memory: - press left button to view next sprite. - press right button to view the previous one. In the palette area: press any mouse button to get the color. On the bar of icons: press any mouse button to execute the command. Selecting a color for brush, ellipse, fill area and others Use cursor keys to move both in the 256 color palette and in the 16 color palette, or click on a color. The current color is designated by a rectangle above the palette. Drawing First put the brush down by a press on the space bar. When brush is down a rectangle of current color appears above the palette. In the same manners, the rubber is set on or off by a press on the '0' key. Use the numeric keypad to move the cursor on the drawing, or to draw if the brush or the rubber is down. One can double the size of the brush by a press on the '.' key. Editing To edit the image, use these keys: CTRL-r Insert a row of pixels at cursor location. CTRL-y Delete the row. CTRL-o Insert a column. CTRL-w Delete the column. < reduce width (20 pixels min.). > increase width (80 pixels max.). - reduce height (20 pixels min.). + increase height (80 pixels max.). Mirror functions: ] or [ horizontal mirror. ~ vertical mirror. Undo: One level undo is provided, type 'u' to restore the image. That clears the result of any function having general effect. It's easy to save the image (with the 'b' command), get it, remove an useless sprite with the organizer. Clearing the window: Type CTRL-z or DEL. Changing the palette You can move a color from a number to another... Press 'o', this holds the current selected color, a triangle appears above the palette, move now to a new location and press 'o' again, this drop the color and the triangle disappears. You may change basis components of a color to create one... Click on the basis components above the palette, with the left button to add to, the right button to reduce an ink. With the keyboard, press R, G, B (uppercases) to add ink to the color, press ALT+r, ALT+g or ALT+b to reduce it. The palette you create must allow inversion of color for some drawing function, this supposes colors with complementary num- ber (=complementary position in the palette) also have comple- mentary display, so complementary of a clear color must be dark and conversely... The palette is saved in the WRK file, when sprites are saved, or separately with the 'w' command at the desktop. To change a color in the whole drawing This changes all pixels of a color to another color. Move the brush on a pixel having the color to be changed in the image, and then select a color in the palette for the replacing color, then press 'c' to do the change. The two colors, are displayed above the palette. At left, the previous one, at right the new one. You may again change the colors with cursor: up and down for the previous, left and right for the new. Press ENTER to do the change. With mouse, one selects the icon #5, one gets if needed old co- lor with left button, new color with right button and one clicks again on icon #5 to do the change. Painting and special effects FILLING Select first the color, set the brush up, move the cursor in- side the area to fill, set the brush down, press 'f'. Using mouse: 1) first get a color, 2) set the location inside the drawing, with right mouse but- ton. 3) click on the fill icon, the third. ELLIPSE/CIRCLE, RECTANGLE, LINE Select first the color for the object to draw. Type - 'e' to draw an ellipse or a circle, - 'r' for a rectangle, - 'l' for a line. To move the object, use the cursor keys or the left mouse but- ton. To change the size, use the '4', '6', '8', '2' keys or the right mouse button. If a line, this changes the ending point. Type ENTER to draw the object according to the selected color, or press ESC to cancel. For the mouse, the get icon does an ENTER press. SPRAY Press 's' or click on the spray icon, the mouse pointer becomes a spray and so remains until you press again on the spray icon. SHADING - choose a row in the palette, it will be displayed at top in the 16 colors palette... The standard palette has at second row a gray gradation that is a good example for the shading func- tion. - move the cursor on a color in the image. - press 'a'. All areas with the chosen color have now grada- tion, according to the row of the palette... - press ALT-a to do shading from right to left. SCALE Press 'w', then the < > + keys to change the size. Press ENTER or click on the 'get' icon. The 'del' icon replaces ESC. MERGING IMAGES Press the '@' key to put the sprite in memory over the drawing. Press the '*' key to do it according to the current rotation angle, value of which being displayed below the window of dra- wing, at right. To change this angle, type: F8 1 degree right. CTRL-F8 10 degrees right. ALT-F8 90 degrees right. F7 1 degree left. CTRL-F7 10 degrees left. ALT-F7 90 degrees left. CUT & PASTE This function is similar to the previous one, but it works with a part of the drawing, or a part of the sprite in memory. Press '/' . A rectangle is outlined upon the sprite in memory. Press the TAB key to cut into the image or to return on the sprite in memory. Use <, >, +, - to change size, and the cursor keys to move the outlined rectangle. Or put left mouse button down and drag to move and right button to change size. Now press ENTER or click on the first icon at bottom of screen. The cut part of the image is now displayed inside the drawing window, by inverting the colors... Remember than if colors are not complementary in the palette, you see nothing. Now you can change the angle of rotation if you want. - press a key of the numeric pad. - or press +, - to change a single degree. - or press < or > to change 10 degrees. - or use same keys as for the previous function. With mouse, click on the icons that represent curved arrows at left, to change the angle. The cursor keys or the left mouse button held down, allow to move the part of image. Press ENTER to paste or click on the icon #1 at the bottom of screen. Making a sprite Various kind of sprites can be made from drawing according to following commands: b 256 colors sprite. z Z-RLE compressed 16 colors sprite. k 16 colors sprite (Size in memory is reduced by half in relation to 256 colors sprite). As above, but no compressed. When making any 16 color sprite or icon, the image must have colors of a same row in the palette. The sprite has colors of the row of palette you select at the time you made it, not the colors you use when drawing it... The first color in this 16 colors palette is always the black background color. A 16 colors sprite must have even number of columns as two pixels are stored into one byte. The program sets the correct number of columns if needed. Making a standard icon When you want to create an icon for Windows, you must first set the proper 32 x 32 pixels size. Use the '<' key to reduce the width and '-' to reduce the height, then draw the image. The black color is a part of the displayed image, to make the background, use any color that is not in the first row at bot- tom of the palette. To create the ICO file, press 'i', then give a 8 letters name, without extension, and press ENTER. The image will also be stored as a sprite to be further edited. Making a sprite in ASCII file Type 'j' and give a 8 letters name, without extension, and press ENTER. The program will create a text file having ASC extension, that holds a 16 color sprite, that you may insert directly into your programs. The syntax of the array is for the C language, but you may be easily edit it to another one. This command also add a sprite in memory. Viewing sprites in memory The window at left shows sprites in memory, one uses PAGE UP and PAGE DOWN to select next or previous one in memory. Or one puts the mouse pointer into this window and presses the left button to view the next sprite or the right button to view the previous one. Type 'g' to copy the sprite from memory to the window of dra- wing. To compare the images, type @ to put one over the other and type u to restore the drawing. The Organizer displays full description of each sprite in memo- ry. ANIMATOR Summary of commands: F1 This help screen. PAGES Select a sprite in memory. Cursor keys Move to a location on the board. 0..9 Put a symbol at cursor location. ENTER Put an ellipse on the board. DEL Erase current cursor position x Clear the whole board. i Interpret the automaton and animate it. Move first the cursor at start of the sequence. z Run the automaton in VGA 19, 256 colors. m Execute step by step the automaton. r Read an automaton, displays it starting at current cursor position. w Write an automaton in a file, starting at cursor. # Put/Remove the grid. n Refresh the screen. HOME Go to the start of the board. END Go to the end of the board < Scroll the board 20 columns left. > Scroll the board 20 columns right. + Slow down the animation. - Speed up the animation. p Switch between editor palette or standard one. ALT-b Change the panel command color. ALT-j Change the board color. ALT-n Change the text and line color. ALT-o Change the border. O Organiser. M MegaSprites. T Three-D viewer. F Virtual tree editor. q Return to desktop. MOUSE ON THE COMMAND PANEL Click on a symbol to get a link. Click anywhere to drop it and get the current sprite number. MOUSE ON THE ASSEMBLY BOARD The mouse becomes a pencil when holding a sprite number and a cross when holding a symbol. Press the left button to put link or sprite number, and the right button to move the cursor at mouse pointer Detailed manual This program allows to make automatons that are sequences of sprites that composes an animation. On the board, an automaton is a sequence of ellipses with number of sprites inside them, ordered by arrows. Animation can be shown in the window at the middle of the screen, or in full screen with VGA 19. At right of this window, nine symbol represent different available links. At right are shown the sprites in memory. To execute a sequence, press 'i' or 'z' to view it in full screen. The interpreter reads on the board from left to right. It can go up or down, but it respects following priorities if several arrows start of the same ellipse: right, then up, otherwise down. Making and editing automaton One selects a sprite in memory with PAGE UP/DOWN keys, and one presses ENTER to put an ellipse at cursor location, holding its number. The keys to put arrows are these: 0: a horizontal line, the symbol to go right. 5: a vertical line, to go up or down. 1, 3, 7, 9: symbols to change direction. 2, 6, 8: add '>' to the lines, that is for better comprehensi- bility but have no utility for the interpreter. The DEL key erases an ellipse. To save an automaton, move the cursor at the first ellipse and press 'w'. To load it, move the cursor at a location and press 'r'. To change the sprite, click on the PAGE UP/DOWN keys at left of sprite in memory, with left button to scroll one at the time, right button to a fast scroll. The horizontal lift allows to scroll the board of automatons. Automatons are saved in files with the AUT extension, that the program adds to itself. The board is saved into the WRK file. ORGANIZER This utility allows to change order of sprites in memory, de- lete one, convert the format, display the detailed description and test the integrity. Icons CNVRT Convert selected sprite to selected format. ENTER/ESCAPE Replace the Enter and Esc keys. Keyboard commands of the organiser PAGES Select a sprite in memory. HOME Go to the first sprite in memory. END Go to the last sprite in memory. m Go to the move mode. Use PAGE UP/DOWN to select a new location, press ENTER to move or ESC to cancel. DEL Delete displayed sprite. t Change current format for converting. ! Convert displayed sprite to current format, and replace it. b Display x 4 a Z-RLE sprite. z Display on VGA 19 screen, if format is compatible. p Switch between editor palette or standard one. A Assembler. M MegaSprites. T Three-D Viewer. F Virtual Tree Editor. Q, ESC Return to desktop. FRACTAL TREES This program mathematically calculate form of trees and paint them on the screen. Their parameters are saved in a 16 bytes file that the user can display, with the tree function, in its programs. In the editor, there are commands to change sizes and command to change characteristics of trees. In a general manner, one use lowercases to reduce a parameter, and uppercases to increase it, for command that have a horizon- tal lift on the panel. Press F1 for help screen. Press ? to know numerical values of parameters. To speed up the changes on bars, type a number, from 1 to 9. Commands for sizes: s size of the whole tree. r random number to determine the whole tree. t height of the trunk. u length of the branches. w width of trunk and branches. Commands for characteristics: l drawing leaves or not. b branching or not for the trunk. m multiple branches at same level or not. h straight trunk or not. f fractal characteristic: branches have same form than the trunk. c conical form. The trunk can be gray or brown (n), leaves are green or snowed (v). To save parameters, type 'p', then give a name, the program adds to the TRE extension. To load a tree, press 'g' and gives the name without extension. WALLS This utility allows to display the objects you create with MegaSprites with a three-d view. The bar of icons at bottom display these function from left to right: #1 Set the corridor view. #2 Set the front wall view. #3 Get the previous image. #4 Get the next image. #5-8 Change the size. #9 Go to MegaSprites. #10 Return to the desktop. Above the bar of icon is an indicator that shows if the view display an image or only the structure of scenery. If you wish to change the size of the scenery, set first the view to the green lines for faster display. That be done by a click on the indicator. Keyboard commands: g Get the image to the view. DEL Remove the image from the view. e Set the corridor view. f Set the front panel view. PAGE UP Next image. PAGE DOWN Previous image. < Reduce the width. > Increase the width. - Reduce the height. + Increase the height. M Go to MegaSprites. ESC Return to the desktop. FORMATS FOR SPRITES All formats but MS are for displaying sprites from bottom to top of screen. Coordinate of sprite, but special F and EAS, are - 0..639 x 0..479 on VGA 18 and SVGA, - 0..319 x 0..199 on VGA 19. Size is limited only by editors, 80 x 80 with MegaSprites and VGA 18 sprite editor, 320 x 200 with Screen Maker. Encoding use either bitmap: 16, 256, Z16 or bit planes: F16, MS, EAS. Bit planes encoding displays very fast on VGA 18 (or VGA 16-EGA) screen resolution. Bitmap is an universal encoding that displays on MCGA, VGA, SVGA with appropriate functions. Principle of bitmap is to store all bits of a pixel into a byte of memory, while bit planes encoding stores image by screen planes. The 256 colors format. It's a universal format to display sprites with all VGA and SVGA screen modes. Each pixel is coded with one byte, according to the bitmap encoding. In VGA 19 these sprites can be displayed very fast. Header: Byte 0: height, from 1 to 200. Byte 1: unused Byte 2-3: width from 1 to 320. Byte 4: format code 1. Byte 5: unused The 16 colors format. A universal format for VGA and SVGA. No compressed. The palette number allows on 256 color screen to display the same sprite with different sets of colors. It uses bitmap encoding with a byte holding two pixels. Header: Byte 0: height, from 1 to 200. Byte 1: unused Byte 2-3: width from 1 to 320. Byte 4: format code 5. Byte 5: palette row number. The 16 colors Z-RLE format. A universal format for VGA and SVGA. Image is coded with an RLE compression algorithm that allows a display with same fast speed than no compressed sprite. Compression can divide size by 5 or more, depending of complexity of the image. The palette number allows on 256 color screen to display a same sprite with different sets of colors. Use bitmap encoding. Header: as above, with format code 4. The F16 (fast) format. It is a format for VGA 18, that displays sprites very fast, with no boundary, so horizontal coordinate is in range 0..79 and not 0..639. Use bit planes encoding. Header: Byte 0: height, from 1 to 200. Byte 1: unused Byte 2-3: width from 1 to 80. Byte 4: format code 6. Byte 5: unused. The EAS (Easy) format. This format allows to make sprite with variable number of screen pages, from 1 to 4, and so displaying animation without erasing background. Uses bit planes encoding. Header: Byte 0: height, from 1 to 200. Byte 1: unused Byte 2-3: width from 1 to 80. Byte 4: format code 3. Byte 5: unused. MS Format to display sprites from top to bottom of screen. It uses bit planes encoding. Header: Byte 0: height, from 1 to 200. Byte 1: unused Byte 2-3: width from 1 to 320. Byte 4: format code 2. Byte 5: unused. Icons. When icons are packed in a single file, they use the 256 or 16 colors format or compressed Z-RLE format. They also can be saved into an ICO file with Windows' format. Functions of the library in the registered version that display icons use color 9 as background color and don't put it on the screen, that is for rather display the 0 color that corresponds to the more useful black color. FILE FORMATS Extensions are entirely managed by the program. If user gives an extension when asked for a filename, the program removes it and puts the proper extension. Each type of file has its proper extension. SPR Sprite table. Can hold relative addresses of sprites, or no. WRK Work file, it is created when saving sprites and it holds preferences, palette, board of automatons. ADR Addresses of sprites in the table. Generated by a CTRL-s. PCX Picture file, the standard format. VRT Picture file, more compressed format with fast display. VGA Picture file with no header, no compressed. PAL Palette. Bytes 0 to 767 are RGB registers, byte 768 is unused, bytes 769..784 for colors 0..15 of the VGA 18 palette. AUT Automaton. Each sprite number use two bytes. Bytes 0 et 1 of the file hold the number of sprites. TRE Tree file, holds 12 parameters, one byte each. ICO Standard Windows' (c) icon file. ASC Sprite saved as ASCII file. PROBLEMS UNDO exists. Type 'u' to restore image as before the last act. BLACK SCREEN If you load a previous work and the WRK file has been corrup- ted, the color registers can be erased, type 'y' to restore standard palette, or load a previously saved palette. NO ELLIPSE, RECTANGLE, LINE, PASTE... The ellipse starts with color complementary to background co- lor, if background has color 0, and is black, complementary co- lor is 255, and if it is black also, you see nothing. This pro- blem disappears by making a palette with complementary colors, that is generally the case when using gradation. COLORS OF SPRITE... Remember than when ones makes a 16 colors sprite with MegaSpri- tes, colors of the sprites are those or current 16 color pa- lette (at top of screen), not colors used when drawing. This is a voluntary feature that allows to use different sets of colors with a same drawing... WIDTH OF SPRITES... The 16 color sprites must have even width. The program automa- tically corrects that and add a column if needed. WORK CAN'T BE LOADED This can occurs if you save sprites with CTRL-s (addresses and raw data in separated files) and then load file with 'l' (ad- dresses and raw data in same file). Remember 'l' matches s, CTRL-l matches CTRL-s. The memory buffer for the table of sprites has variable size, that depends of the available conventional memory, 640Kb or less. By adding resident program it may occurs the memory buffer has too reduced to load a file of sprites. CTRL-c The control-c interrupt is disabled, however some mouse drivers can thwart that, so try to avoid type that.