Short: Awesome Workbench/MUI System Enhancement Package, Vol 16! Author: bjp@interaccess.com (Bowie J. Poag) Uploader: bjp@interaccess.com (Bowie J. Poag) Type: pix/icon +-+-----------------------------------------------------------------p-+-q |O| ArcsPack-16! by Bowie J. Poag, 1/4/96 |c|C| +-+-----------------------------------------------------------------b-+-d | | | Arctangent's Pack #16 Documentation Notes | | | | :Table of contents: | | | +=======================================================================+ I. Introduction II. System Requirements III. Startup-Pix (Images for your Amiga to display while booting) IV. Preview-Pix (Images which give a brief overview of whats new!) V. Patterns (Tile patterns for Workbench, MUI & LightWave 3D users) VI. Palletes (A fine array of color sets to apply to these graphics) VII. DockIcons (Cool launch icons for AmiDock/Toolmanager users!) VIII. Other Stuff I. Introduction ------------ Welcome to the wonderful wiggly-world of ArcsPack! ArcsPack represents a incredibly wide array of ways which you, or anyone, can drastically improve the look and appearance of their systems. With ArcsPack, anyone can give their Workbench and/or MUI applications a makeover with a choice of nearly 7,000 possible combinations of hand-drawn tiles, patterns, and colors.. Also, dozens of beautiful startup screens for all Amiga models, and now, the addition of digitized sound samples of differing lengths to be played while your Amiga boots up! ArcsPack is for those who want their system to have a sleek, guilded, polished appearance both inside and out. In addition to other system enhancement packages like Magic Workbench and MUI, ArcsPack is a fast and easy way to make your system absolutely shine. In this document, you'll learn about what it takes to make any Mac or lowly PC user's chin drop straight through the floor by giving your system an eye-popping facelift which will set it miles above other platforms. You're lucky you have an Amiga! ArcsPack is only available for the Amiga community's consumption only! ArcsPack is also freeware. Its a gift from me to you. I charge no money for it, and will accept no money for it. However, if on the other hand you have an opening in your company for a brilliant and incredibly modest young artist, well then... ;) In any event, enjoy it. Its yours--So are the other 15 VOLUMES of ArcsPack which are available worldwide via the Aminet. If you like it, fab--Drop me a line in E-Mail, and I'll make sure you LOVE the next one. My E-Mail address is listed at the bottom of this document. If you are blind, stupid, horribly ignorant, or for some reason dissatisfied with the level of quality contained in this package, please take the time to bite me. II. System Requirements ------------------- ArcsPack generally has no specific requirements--But for those without an Amiga, or a hard disk, or at least a 16 color Workbench, you won't get nearly the same amount out of this package as you could. A system I would reccomend would be: A) An A2000/3000 w/Graphics card (or preferably A1200/4000) B) Workbench 3.0 or greater (For those with 2.x..UPGRADE! Its worth it!) C) ~5MB free HD space to install this volume, or, about 50MB free space to install this, and all previous versions of ArcsPack D) ADPro, ImageFX, Brilliance or some image processing/paint program. E) MagicWB and/or MUI installed. Dont let my suggestion decieve you--You will still get a great deal out of ArcsPack with just an 8-color Workbench on an ECS machine. :) Infact, I dont even own an AGA machine, or a graphics card. My own system is a "lowly" A2500HD/030 :) Future versions of ArcsPack may require ~3-5MB free hard disk space in order to install. III. Startup-Pix ----------- What are Startup-Pix? Startup-Pix are standard (usually high-res) .IFF pictures which your Amiga displays while booting. Kinda like the "smile screen" on newer Macs or the boring clouds you see on Windows '95..Startup Pix are a good way to add a little color to normally dull, blank screens while booting. There are specific screens for ALL Amiga models available in previous versions of ArcsPack, as well as specific screens for all common AmigaDOS versions. Instead of staring like an idiot at a blank screen while your system boots, now you can have a glorious "AmigaDOS 3.1" or "A2000HD/030/882" screen fade in from the darkness instead. :) There are plenty of new utilities on the Aminet (like BootPic, StartScreen and others) which perform the task of quietly displaying graphics during boot-ups without disturbing other programs in your Amiga's startup-sequence. Check them out! Most are written by skilled, reputable programmers who know what they're doing. :) Future version of ArcsPack will have the ability to "install" this feature directly into the startup-sequence of your machine. For the time being, this task must be performed by you, manually. I merely supply the graphics. Simple show programs like Mostra or ViewTek can also fulfill this purpose.. IV. Index! ------ Too impatient to sift through the patterns to find the one you like? Then this is the place for you--In this drawer you will find several images to preview, to give you a rough idea of whats contained in this archive--Over 2 DOZEN patterns available in this volume for your Workbench display, alone! Just double-click on the icons, and MultiView will bring up a window on your Workbench to show you. Keep in mind, you can also tell MultiView to use its own screen when bringing up the graphics you tell it to--Just go to its pull-down menu and select "Use Seperate Screen" from the Window menu. V. Patterns! --------- Patterns are what makes ArcsPack so popular--Everything from the trippy and psychedelic to the sublime and corporate are available here. There are patterns and tiles of every humanly imaginable style to be found both in this volume, as well as the 15 volumes of ArcsPack which came before this one. The Patterns are meant to give a variety of variations on a theme; Usually, if you like one, you'll like almost all of them. I try not to sqeeze too much out of one paticular style, so usually several are represented. All of these patterns and tiles were painted by hand, by me. How did I paint them? Well, if I told you, then I'd be out of a job. :) I take a great deal of pleasure in painting these..Theyre fun to create and polish off, and they look stunning in actual use. Whenever I paint, I almost ALWAYS plugged into my stereo with my headphones on, either listening to mods, or listening to my fabled collection of Human League, Devo, and Kraftwerk CD's..which can often explain the bizzare filenames these patterns and tiles have. :) Why are they all GREY, do you ask? No, I didn't forget to color them. The reason why they're all grey, is because it would be pointless (not to mention incredibly stupid) for me to include 20 DIFFERENT COPIES of the same little tile or pattern, just with different colors. ArcsPack would be gigantic if I did it this way. Instead, the raw graphics AND the Pallete files are ALSO given to you separately, so that you can apply the color of your choosing to the tiles & patterns which you like best. You can apply the colors to the graphics with any paint program, or image processing utility such as ADPro, ImageFX, PhotoGenics, PersonalPaint, etc. Consult the manual for the package which you have for instructions on how to apply a color pallete to these graphics. Don't worry, its easy. :) Future versions of ArcsPack will automate this process. Stay tuned. VI. Palletes -------- A wide selection of possibilities for colorizing your favorite patterns and tiles finds its home in this drawer. Inside the Palletes drawer, are a whole bunch of IFF/ILBM Pallete files. These tiny little files contain all the color register information for a picture. If you load in one of my normally-grey patterns or tiles, and then tell the program you're using to do this to load in the Pallete file, the colors will instantly snap themselves into place, and the screen/tile/pattern will come alive with vibrant color. Its more fun than a barrel of Sea-Monkeys! :) Everything from Clockwork-Orange to Pink-Panther and Grapeity-Grape Purple are included, in every shade, of every color of the rainbow sparing the ugly ones. Once you've applied the Pallete to the graphics, you can save the graphics back out again, which will now have aquired the new color scheme. Groovy, eh? :) VII. DockIcons --------- The DockIcons included here in ArcsPack-15 are indexed on a big contact sheet located in the Indexes drawer as "Index-1" .. Double-click on it to show a grid with coordinates you can use to locate the dockicons of your choosing. The DockIcons are standard .iff brush maps--Meaning of course, you can also map color to them, like any other chunk of graphics in ArcsPack-16. :) VIII. Other Stuff ----------- Well, that about wraps it up--If you're having unforseen problems with ArcsPack which you cant account for here in the documentation, drop me a line at my email address below. Or, if you'de just like to drop me a line and say what you'de like to see in future ArcsPacks, that would be pretty cool too. In any event, ENJOY my work. Spread it around--make people happy with it. If anybody charges you money for it, steal it. Bowie J. 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