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.

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.
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