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GIF's
This image was created by a Program called TEXTURE GARDEN, And INTERGIF now if you have DrawWorks, you are lucky, I say this because it was one of the bolt-on programs, And Has an icon like this:
![[Icon]](texture/iconTXT.gif) If you have got DrawWorks, then go away and find it, if not, skip the first part of this page and head strait to the part about INTERGIF, as Im Affraid to say that the first part isnt realy for you.
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Texture Garden
This is the main screen that you will see,
this is where you put the textures, and as you may well see, it's full up with them! to get these textures you simply drag one of the files supplyed with the program, in the textures directory
, to the main window, and hay presto up comes the effect!
That may be all well and (Hopefuly) simple, but you dont want to be limmited to just a few textures, oh no, texture garden can offer a hole lot more, just drag the textures to the second window and press the equals sign, can't see where they go? try making the second window bigger! there now thats better isn't it, well???
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Info about the second window
- It creates alters the textures you give it textures, .-Well dur,
- This new texture will have some things in common withthe old textures
- You can change diffrent aspects of the textures by diffrent abounts, but you can't control the output
Confused?, Hopefully not, but I will explain further:
The Rate Bar
This is probably the most inportant bit of the process, but hay the defalt setting works fine!
the basic principle is
The higher the value, the less the output is like the original!-Simple ehr?
I find that its probably best to keep this faily low e.g.25% (like in the picture), otherwise you start getting weird, meaningless textures. Try it, just mess about until you get somthing you like
INPORTANT somthing I Probably should have said uilier, but hay, I will say it now, In Texture Garden Every time you create a new texture in the control window, it is uneake!, press the button gain and you get a totaly diffrent texture, so Use/save it or lose it! OK, so I love to be melodromatic! ps. you have to save it as TEXT format for you to be able to play around with the texture any more, otherwise its just a lovely sprite!
OK, Enouth about the "Rate" slider, what about the rest?
Well hear we go!
- Mutate Textures
well thats what you are doing, isn't it? P.S this MUST be ticked for anything to happen!
- Mutate Palette
I Find this is best left unticked, it changes the sprites pallet into realy weird stuf, its fine if you dont want to change the pallet at all, but, my gess is you mite or at least will want the opption of applying a new palet file to the image. What a mouth-full, sorry!
- Mutate Colours
Pretty Obvious Realy, Isn't It
- Mutate Lighting Angle
Dosn't seem to do that much, I just leave it ticked as you can see
Still just play about until you have some textures you like and then, you can:
- Save them as sprites
- Save them in text format,
(you do this if you want to use that texture again in TextureGarden)
- Save them as Animations
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Animations
Probably the best bit for me, save as animations lets you preview the animation by clicking Preview in the save dialog box. Try it, go ahead now TRY IT
Did You get somthing likethe thing on the right ?
Good, Ain't it, I mean its the one at the top of the page, yep thats how I did it,
I saved it as an sprite animation and then I converted it using InterGif,(see the InterGif page)
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