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| Editart Key Listing Version 1.0 |
| Written and Copyright © 2000 by Jonah Bishop |
[ A ] Sets the animation speed of the current tile. Press the [ + ] and [ - ] keys to change the speed of animation. There are 16 speeds to cycle through, and once you have selected the speed you want, press [ ENTER ]. [ C ] Change all the pixels on the tile, having the same color under the cursor, to the color currently selected. [ F ] Flood fill a region with the selected color, and with the current color as a boundary. [ G ] Go to a tile by typing in the tile's number. [ J ] Randomly plots dots of current color over any pixels having the same color as the color under the cursor. [ M ] Back up a tile into a temporary memory buffer. [ N ] Name a tile. Naming the tile changes the #define statement in NAMES.H. Use this to make names for sprites you wish to find quickly (i.e. - the name of the sprite you want to use might be CANDYBAR). [ O ] Optimize the size of an individual piece of artwork. Use this for tiles with invisible pixels on the sides. [ P ] Restore the tile in the temporary memory buffer. [ M ] sets the tile to be backed up. [ R ] Rotate the tile in a specified direction. [ ALT ]+[ R ] Generate a tile frequency report by scanning all the maps in the directory. Use in "V" mode only! [ S ] Resize a tile. The X and Y sizes can be any unsigned short integer. X sizes range from 0 to 1024 and Y sizes from 0 to 240. [ T ] Turn drawing trail on or off. [ U ] Use this key to import a section of either a .BMP, .PCX, or .GIF file. The following keys are used with this keystroke:
[ ALT ]+[ U ] Re-grabs the artwork from the original pictures, according to what the CAPFIL.TXT file says. Pressing [ ALT ]+[ U ] in the main screen will re-grab everything. If you press it in "V" mode, first select the boundaries with the [ 1 ] and [ 2 ] keys. [ V ] View and select a tile to edit. The following keys can be used with this keystroke:
[ 1 ] Mark the first portion of a tile you wish to copy. [ 2 ] Mark the other portion of a tile you wish to copy. [ 3 ] Paste the portion of a tile that you copied onto another tile. [ 4 ] Flip the copied portion x-wise. [ 5 ] Flip the copied portion y-wise. [ - ] Change the animation setting. To change the setting, press [ - ] when the animation value is 0. There are four different types of animation. Here is an example of each:
[ + ] See [ - ]. [ DELETE ] Short cut key. Sets both the X and Y sizes to 0 (thus deleting the tile). [ PGUP ] Select a tile to edit (scrolls through all the tiles). [ PGDN ] See [ PGUP ]. [ ~ ] Centers a sprite. Use the arrow keys to center the sprite. This key is right above the TAB key. [ F12 ] Screen shot. Saves the current as a *.BMP file. [ ESC ] Quits. [ ARROW KEYS ] or [ MOUSE ] Moves the cursor. [ SHIFT ]+[ ARROWS ] Changes the current color. [ SPACE ] Plots a pixel under the cursor with the selected color. [ TAB ] Select the color under the cursor. [ BACKSPACE ] Set the color to 255, which is the transparency color. [ ; ] 3-Dimentionalize an image. [ ' ] 3-Dimentionalixes the image the opposite way of [ ; ]. |
