Processor-Window

Introduction

The Processor is Wildfire's powerful image-processing engine which acts
as a PlugIn between the Converter's input and output.
If you have understood the basic  concept  of this architecture
it's easy for you to create almost any complicated or simple effect.

Functions:

Process-Script:

Add              open the  Operators-Window  to append an operator to the list
Kill             kill the selected item
Duplicate        duplicate the selected item
Import           import one or more items from a previously saved Process-file
Edit             open the Options-Window of the selected Operator
Up               move the selected item up
Down             move the selected item down
Visible/Hidden   toggle if the current item remains visible if folding is
                 enabled
Enabled/Disabled disable/enable the current item
Folding          toggle list-folding on/off
Range            the frame-range of the current Operator:
                  from: first frame
                  to  : last frame
                  step: positive value:
                         turn on the operator at each <step>th frame
                        negative value:
                         turn off the operator at each <0-step>th frame
                 It may be neccessary to include operators which
                 have to be executed only once- but under all circumstances,
                 e.g. an LoadImage-operator. Setting it's range to (0 0 1)
                 causes this operator to be executed at the first
                 frame the Processor is envoked. (In single-picture-mode
                 this may be every possible frame.)

Folding is very nice feature to design very complex scripts.
If a particular scene works you should hide it to work on the next one.
A comment describing the hidden scene and the frame-range
should be left visible.


Options:

Mode           color-mode for rendered images
Dither         dithering-method used while rendering images
Depth          depth of rendered images, the following depths are
               currently supported:
                1...8 (rendered images with colormap),
                15/24 ( Truecolor  images)
CSkip          number of colors not used while rendering images,
               this may be useful for creating Workbench-backdrops
Scale           Process-Scale-Value   
BGRed,         background-color specifying the "black color" for
BGGreen,       the numerous image-deforming effects
BGBlue
Smooth         global intensity of smoothing for various operators
Single Image   open the  SinglePicture-Window  to process single images
Variables      open the  Variables-Window      to edit time-dependant animation-paramters
Savers         open the  Savers-Window         to select the Saver used while writing TrueColor-images
Palette        open the  Palette-Window        to create a locked Palette
Calculator     open the  Calculator-Window    
File           filename used for loading/saving of Process-scripts
Load           load a previously saved Process-file
Save           save the Process-script, all Variables and the Palette
               as Process-file
Clear          clear the Process-script, all Variables keep unchanged


Additional ShortCuts:

<del>            delete the selected list-item
<space>          Test Process of the  SinglePicture-Window 
<v>              toggle  Preview  on/off
<up>,<down>      browse through the Process-list
<left>           unfold item (if folding=off)
<left>           unfold whole list after safety-requester (if folding=on)
<right>          fold item
<n>              enable/disable item