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Xavier L. Tardy
Aug 1, 2012, 6:59:54 AM8/1/12
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Good morning.
As the title suggests, I'm looking for XFM Paint.
It's a graphics utility, running exclusively in mode 13, which I think is quite powerful to create images and sprites.
I only have a demo, and I'd like to get the full version.
Has anyone got it ?
I've uploaded a video of the demo version on Youtube, you can watch it here :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poi4GMg8hUQ&feature=youtu.be
Thanks for your help.
Xavier.
As the title suggests, I'm looking for XFM Paint.
It's a graphics utility, running exclusively in mode 13, which I think is quite powerful to create images and sprites.
I only have a demo, and I'd like to get the full version.
Has anyone got it ?
I've uploaded a video of the demo version on Youtube, you can watch it here :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poi4GMg8hUQ&feature=youtu.be
Thanks for your help.
Xavier.
xlt...@gmail.com
Aug 3, 2012, 7:19:51 AM8/3/12
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Addendum : if you've got in mind another graphics package, be it commercial or PD, which is similar, please advise me.
I know there are many available for the Archies, but I'm specifically looking for the best one to design sprites / tiles / fonts, typically to ease designing graphics for a game or a demo on a RISC OS 3.1 machine.(in mode 13 : 320 x 256, 256 colours).
Although I had written 20 years ago a small app to 'cut' sprites from a screen (where all sprites to form an animated sprite are displayed), I'd like to know if there is one available, it would be certainly more user friendly than mine. ;-)
Thanks in advance for your help.
I know there are many available for the Archies, but I'm specifically looking for the best one to design sprites / tiles / fonts, typically to ease designing graphics for a game or a demo on a RISC OS 3.1 machine.(in mode 13 : 320 x 256, 256 colours).
Although I had written 20 years ago a small app to 'cut' sprites from a screen (where all sprites to form an animated sprite are displayed), I'd like to know if there is one available, it would be certainly more user friendly than mine. ;-)
Thanks in advance for your help.
Tony Moore
Aug 3, 2012, 8:00:24 AM8/3/12
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On 3 Aug 2012, xlt...@gmail.com wrote:
[snip]
> Although I had written 20 years ago a small app to 'cut' sprites from
> a screen (where all sprites to form an animated sprite are displayed),
> I'd like to know if there is one available, it would be certainly more
> user friendly than mine. ;-)
Snapper http://www.chrisjohnson.plus.com/software/snap.html can easily
cut sprites, of a specified size and position, from the screen.
Tony
[snip]
> Although I had written 20 years ago a small app to 'cut' sprites from
> a screen (where all sprites to form an animated sprite are displayed),
> I'd like to know if there is one available, it would be certainly more
> user friendly than mine. ;-)
cut sprites, of a specified size and position, from the screen.
Tony
xlt...@gmail.com
Aug 3, 2012, 1:08:17 PM8/3/12
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> > Although I had written 20 years ago a small app to 'cut' sprites from
>
> > a screen (where all sprites to form an animated sprite are displayed),
>
> > I'd like to know if there is one available, it would be certainly more
>
> > user friendly than mine. ;-)
>
>
>
> Snapper http://www.chrisjohnson.plus.com/software/snap.html can easily
>
> cut sprites, of a specified size and position, from the screen.
>
>
>
> Tony
The ideal app I'm looking for is one that can, not only easily grab areas on screen, and then can display them one after the other, or following a sequence you set up : it's perfect to check that the different sprites you've drawn will form a nice animation in your game or demo.
Alan Calder
Aug 3, 2012, 1:51:04 PM8/3/12
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In article <bb20b3bf-a56e-47f4...@googlegroups.com>,
> Thanks Tony, I'm going to try that. The ideal app I'm looking for is one
> that can, not only easily grab areas on screen, and then can display
> them one after the other, or following a sequence you set up : it's
> perfect to check that the different sprites you've drawn will form a
> nice animation in your game or demo.
I have a program called !Animator from Iota that used to take sprites and
Drawfiles and animate them quite nicely. Didn't do the grabbing but that's
not a problem with Snapper (oe even good old Paint).
From a long time ago, mine's dated 1997. Doesn't work at the moment as it
hasn't been happy with a move to a new harddisk some years ago, asks for
the original disk which I may have somewhere.
Seems it was taken over with other Iota software around 2008 but no sign of
it on the RComp site. You could ask them.
Alan
--
Alan Calder, Milton Keynes, UK.
<xlt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Although I had written 20 years ago a small app to 'cut' sprites from
> >
> > > a screen (where all sprites to form an animated sprite are
> > > displayed),
> >
> > > I'd like to know if there is one available, it would be certainly
> > > more
> >
> > > user friendly than mine. ;-)
> >
> >
> >
> > Snapper http://www.chrisjohnson.plus.com/software/snap.html can easily
[Snip]
> > > Although I had written 20 years ago a small app to 'cut' sprites from
> >
> > > a screen (where all sprites to form an animated sprite are
> > > displayed),
> >
> > > I'd like to know if there is one available, it would be certainly
> > > more
> >
> > > user friendly than mine. ;-)
> >
> >
> >
> > Snapper http://www.chrisjohnson.plus.com/software/snap.html can easily
> Thanks Tony, I'm going to try that. The ideal app I'm looking for is one
> that can, not only easily grab areas on screen, and then can display
> them one after the other, or following a sequence you set up : it's
> perfect to check that the different sprites you've drawn will form a
> nice animation in your game or demo.
Drawfiles and animate them quite nicely. Didn't do the grabbing but that's
not a problem with Snapper (oe even good old Paint).
From a long time ago, mine's dated 1997. Doesn't work at the moment as it
hasn't been happy with a move to a new harddisk some years ago, asks for
the original disk which I may have somewhere.
Seems it was taken over with other Iota software around 2008 but no sign of
it on the RComp site. You could ask them.
Alan
--
Alan Calder, Milton Keynes, UK.
Tony Moore
Aug 3, 2012, 2:58:46 PM8/3/12
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On 3 Aug 2012, Alan Calder <alan_...@o2.co.uk> wrote:
[snip]
> I have a program called !Animator from Iota that used to take sprites
> and Drawfiles and animate them quite nicely.
[snip]
> Seems it was taken over with other Iota software around 2008 but no
> sign of it on the RComp site. You could ask them.
As you say, Animator is not listed on the R-Comp website, but since they
took over the Iota website, as well as the Iota software, Animator is
still described at http://www.iota.co.uk/tca/index.html . The free demo
is the Windows version, but I'm sure that R-Comp still has the RISC OS
version for sale (I recently bought the latest RISC OS version of Iota's
TouchType, without key-disc, from R-Comp).
Tony
[snip]
> I have a program called !Animator from Iota that used to take sprites
> and Drawfiles and animate them quite nicely.
> Seems it was taken over with other Iota software around 2008 but no
> sign of it on the RComp site. You could ask them.
took over the Iota website, as well as the Iota software, Animator is
still described at http://www.iota.co.uk/tca/index.html . The free demo
is the Windows version, but I'm sure that R-Comp still has the RISC OS
version for sale (I recently bought the latest RISC OS version of Iota's
TouchType, without key-disc, from R-Comp).
Tony
Tony Moore
Aug 3, 2012, 3:05:50 PM8/3/12
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> > > Although I had written 20 years ago a small app to 'cut' sprites
> > > from a screen (where all sprites to form an animated sprite are
> > > displayed), I'd like to know if there is one available, it would
> > > be certainly more user friendly than mine. ;-)
> >
> > Snapper http://www.chrisjohnson.plus.com/software/snap.html can
> > easily cut sprites, of a specified size and position, from the
> > screen.
>
> > > from a screen (where all sprites to form an animated sprite are
> > > displayed), I'd like to know if there is one available, it would
> > > be certainly more user friendly than mine. ;-)
> >
> > Snapper http://www.chrisjohnson.plus.com/software/snap.html can
> > easily cut sprites, of a specified size and position, from the
> > screen.
>
> Thanks Tony, I'm going to try that.
> The ideal app I'm looking for is one that can, not only easily grab
> areas on screen, and then can display them one after the other, or
> following a sequence you set up : it's perfect to check that the
> different sprites you've drawn will form a nice animation in your game
> or demo.
Variations http://compo.iconbar.com/variation.htm , which is freeware,
> The ideal app I'm looking for is one that can, not only easily grab
> areas on screen, and then can display them one after the other, or
> following a sequence you set up : it's perfect to check that the
> different sprites you've drawn will form a nice animation in your game
> or demo.
has a slide-show facility. It will display a set of images in the order
of their filenames, and the speed of display can be configured.
Tony
Tony Moore
Aug 3, 2012, 3:45:39 PM8/3/12
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[snip]
> > The ideal app I'm looking for is one that can, not only easily grab
> > areas on screen, and then can display them one after the other, or
> > following a sequence you set up : it's perfect to check that the
> > different sprites you've drawn will form a nice animation in your
> > game or demo.
>
> Variations http://compo.iconbar.com/variation.htm , which is freeware,
> has a slide-show facility. It will display a set of images in the
> order of their filenames, and the speed of display can be configured.
Fade is a dedicated slide-show application which may offer more control
http://www.reallysmall.co.uk/Pages/normal/software/presentation/fade/fade.html
Tony
> > The ideal app I'm looking for is one that can, not only easily grab
> > areas on screen, and then can display them one after the other, or
> > following a sequence you set up : it's perfect to check that the
> > different sprites you've drawn will form a nice animation in your
> > game or demo.
>
> Variations http://compo.iconbar.com/variation.htm , which is freeware,
> has a slide-show facility. It will display a set of images in the
> order of their filenames, and the speed of display can be configured.
http://www.reallysmall.co.uk/Pages/normal/software/presentation/fade/fade.html
Tony
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