XiPaint 3.2
Information in this page updated: 17 Dec 95
My Personal Experiences of this software/system
- Distributor:
- Stefan Ossowskis Schatztruhe
- Version:
- 3.2
XiPaint 3.2 Contains:
The Disk Contains 68000, 68020 and 68040 versions; localized for German,
English and Italian languages.
- Drivers for following graphic cards and modes:
- Picasso, EGS, Ham6, Ham8, 256 Color, Cybergraphics, VD2001,
Framemaster, Graffity, Merlin (Limited) and Retina.
- Drivers also supplied for WACOM graphic tablets; as well as
"Studio 2" And "Turbo Print".
- Printerd manuals has not been provided in the package as that would
have increased costs and thereby significantly elevated the selling
price. CD-ROM contains German and English documentation in the following
formats: AmigaGuide, ASCII, DVI, DeskJet, LaserJet, Postscript.
- Developer Pack for XiPaint 3.2
- This allows a programmer to adapt XiPaint to all raphic cards;
programming their own print module, loader, saver, scanner module and filter.
- Interface description for the Output library and the User Port.
- Source of xout_x.library, the ximulti I/O modules, and the filter
modules for smoothing and smear.
- Graphics:
- approx. 60 textures (wood, Concrete, Paper)
- approx. 50 landscapes
- approx. 30 miscellaneous pictures.
- Fonts in various formats
- Shareware:
- Wacom driver, required for the XiPaint Wacom driver interface,
version 1.17 by Roland Schwingel
- Graffity Emulation
- A complete WB-emulation for Omnibus, Picasso and Merlin graphic cards
- Demoloader by Helmut Hoffman
- External Drivers for loading a variety of graphic file formats into XiPaint
The Future of XiPaint
Until now, XiPaint has been purely a 24/32-bit paint program for single images.
Despite improvements and the integrations of new concepts such as drag & drop,
asynchronous loading, saving, scanning, filtering, printing and Notebooks,
XiPaint 3.2 is only a stepping stone.
The Next step is animation. XiPaint 4.0 will provide numerous capabilities
for animation. Automatic captioning in image sequences, fade effects,
automatic merging od modifications over several hundred frames etc. These
frames can then be played back using (for example) VLab Motion.
A simple ray tracer will also be implemented, which can produce objects
such as spheres, cylinders and rings of various materials. This provides
the ability to utilise 3-D objects in a 2-D paint program. XiPaint cannot
replace a proper ray tracer. Its capability is only inteded to provide
a means od creating new objects.
XiPaint 3.2 already has the ability to work with natural brushes. This is
to be extended in future. Painting on backgrounds without altering the
structure, and the provision of more natural tools will be important
innovations in XiPaint 4.0.
The queue concept for pens and brushes will be extended by libraries.
A library may be called at any time in the creation of a new picture.
A significant feature is hierarchial structuring and object orientation
of all data. XiPaint 4.0 will maintain a database for version-dependent
collection and manipulation of pictures. Pictures can thereby be annotated
with additional information (text, dates, etc.)
Above text was taken from the backside and/or the leaflet following the CD-ROM.