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- A Fast Start to see (partially) what X-DVE is able to do.
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- * Start X-DVE by clicking on its icon (a check window appears: wait).
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- * You are facing X-DVE editor's screen. Now you can load a ready made
- X-DVE script clicking on the "Load" button in the "Script" box.
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- * Select one of the scripts with the File-Requester (they are named
- xxxx.script).
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- * You can have an idea of the script when you click the "Preview" button in
- the "Animation" box. While you are (Pre)viewing the animation, you'll able
- to jump to any frame of the script with the frames slider (the control
- panel acts like a VCR). Press the "ESC" key to go back to the editor.
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- * It's time to render the animation. Click the "Mem" button in the
- "Animation" box and you'll face the "Memory Render" requester. We suggest
- you to render the scripts in "32BitI" mode or "16BitI" mode (the others
- "16Bit" and "32Bit" are only for Disk-Play facilities). So, select
- "32BitI" mode and set the "Loop" checkbox ON (this will close the animation
- for a perfect loop-play as PPaint does). We are ready to start: Click the
- "Render" button and wait for the rendering to be complete (DraCo users will
- wait for some seconds (!)). Note that your Amiga's multitasking is NOT
- dead, and you can jump to the Workbench screen with the normal Amiga-N
- keys.
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- * As soon as the rendering phase is finished, you can see the animation
- Clicking the "Play" button (....... yes IT IS very smooth). We suggest
- you to play the animations with "LOOP" and "AUTOPAUSE" modes. During the
- execution of the animation, you can Start/Pause with the left mouse button
- or stop it with the right mouse button.
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- * You can free your memory from the current animation with the "Clear"
- button ("Memory Render" requester ) and load another script.
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- * The demo scripts are really short and somewhere confusing, but this demo
- version can handle only 150 frames animations and it is a difficult task to
- show the power of X-DVE in such a little space. Anyway the sales version
- of X-DVE is capable to handle upto 10.000 frames animations (and we suppose
- it is enough for any kind of application).
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- Thanks for reading.
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