Animation Station V1.0 ---------------------------- Designed and written by: Michael W. Hartman of Cryogenic Software Published by: Progressive Peripherals & Software UNDER 1 MEG USERS!!!! You will not be able to use this program unless you have at least 1 megabyte of memory (more is recommended). 1 MEGABYTE USERS!!!!! Since animation is so highly memory intensive it is recommended that you expand your system to at least 1.5 megabytes. But for those who wish to use Animation Station with only 1 Meg the following hints are given. 1. Either save your undo buffer to a floppy or a hard disk, or modify the Station.CONFIG file so that Animation Station will not attempt to save its undo buffers. 2. Work on a BARE MINUMIM system. This means you should not run ANYTHING else in the background prior to running Animation Station. 3. Run Animation Station from the Workbench. Have NO open CLI or Shell windows. Make sure that the Station.CONFIG file has the CLOSEWBENCH flag set to "YES". This will allow Animation Station to close the workbench screen, freeing up an additional 40K of CHIP RAM. 4. Some features will undoubtably not function when you have only 1 Meg. Sometimes you will not be able to load the animation without entering LOW MEMORY mode. Sometimes it will load the animation properly, but it will not be able to allocate enough memory to perform a specific function. Simple editing (COPY, MOVE, DELETE, etc...) should function in MOST cases. The higher level functions, such as special effects require larger amounts of memory, hence they probably will NOT function, they also are not implemented for LOW MEMORY mode. 5. After loading an animation, check available memory displayed on the title bar of the screen. If you have less that 200K total, I would recommend that you split the animation. If you have less than 300K total the advanced features will probably not function, but you should be able to view, and perform simple editing. If CHIP ram ever drops below 100K the situation should be considered DANGEROUS, and I highly recommend spliting the animation. If FAST memory drops below 200K you will most likely be limited simple editing functions. 6. BE CAREFUL! If the available system memory get too low the system will run out of memory, and the results are unpredictable. Animation is a memory HOG! If you are serious about animation you will most likely require much more that 1 Meg of memory. EVERYONE !!!!! Sometimes even those people with lots of spare memory will run into an animation that requires more memory than they have. The BEST solution to this problem is to use the SplitANIM and CombineANIM programs. Split the animation in half, perform the editing that you want (saving individual frames on disk for importation into the OTHER half if need be), and combine them together when you are done. This technique will allow you to use all the features of Animation Station which aren't available when using LOW MEMORY MODE. ---------Keyboard equivalents !!!! This file contains keyboard equivalents for Animation Station Users. Most of the screens and requesters within Animation Station have keyboard equivalents for the gadgets and icons. The main edit display has a key equivalent for every gadget and icon. To see what these key equivalents are press the HELP key while on the main edit screen. They are repeated here for convienence. NOTE: no key equivalents within Animation Station are case sensitive. ALSO NOTE: The F1 key always corresponds to the positive gadgets. i.e. Proceed, OK, and Accept. While the F10 key always corresponds to the negative gadgets. i.e. Exit and Cancel. P = Play F = Fast Play [ = Insert before frame ] = Insert after frame + = Select all frames - = Deselect all frames. R = Mirror selected frames Y = Gray scale selected frames A = Append ILBM Q = Palette X = Special Effects B = Brush Movement T = Frame Timing ; = Grab brush ' = Crop frames / = Fast Mode , = Save ILBM . = Load ILBM S = Save ANIM L = Load ANIM M = Move mode C = Copy Mode V = View Frames G = Merge ILBM U = Undo last I = Disk Info E = Erase frames D = Delete Frames ARROWS = scroll through frames HELP = Help with key equivalents The rest of the requesters key equivalents are documented below. ***** Palette Requester A = All or One mode toggle / = Calculate color usage P = Previous frame N = Next frame G = Gray scale V = View the frame R = Restore changes S = Spread mode W = Swap mode C = Copy mode Keypad 3 = + Blue value 6 = + Green value 9 = + Red value 1 = - Blue value 4 = - Green value 7 = - Red value ***** F/X Requester X = Flip on X Y = Flip on Y I = Toggle IN/OUT scroll direction ARROWS = scrolling direction H = Scale to Half size F = Scale to Fourth size 1 = From A 5 = To A 2 = From B 6 = To B 3 = From C 7 = To C 4 = From D 8 = To D ***** Brush Movement Requester N = Next frame P = Previous frame Q = Quick/Smart toggle F = Front/Back toggle I = Show Image B = Show Brush K = Set Key M = Make Key S = Show Motion path H = Home > = As Next < = As Prev ARROWS = move brush ***** Merge Requester S = Smart Merge Q = Quick Merge F = Merge in Front B = Merge in Back A = Merge with all frames E = Merge with selected frames ***** Frame Info Requester N = Next frame P = Previous frame A = All mode ***** Disk Info Requester 1 = Far left device in list 2-9 = in between devices in list. 0 = Far right device in list *****