

Editing Art Files 
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Well, I've Spent A Lot Of Time Working With Editart
 And I Made I Simple Guide For Using It Because I Know
 It's Really Confusing! You Can Download It In A Zip 
File By Clicking Here Or Read It Below.

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Editart Guide Version 1.0

_________The Basics _________ 

First Of All, Put Editart In The Shadow Warrior Directory,
 Then Extract The .Art Files With Sextract Or Kextract.
 To Use Sextract Or Kextract Read EXTRACTING.TXT. Then Go
 Into Editart, Once It's Loaded Push "V". You Should Now
 See A Menu With All The Art, To Go Down, Up, Left And
 Right Use The Arrow Keys And To Edit A Picture Hit "RETURN".
 To Change Colours When Editing Art Just Move Your Little 
Square Cursor To The Colour You Want And Push "TAB".

______ Creating New Art _______

 If You Want To Make New Art Hit "G" For Goto And Type 4070
 (It Dosen't Have To Be This Number, Just Past The Shadow 
Warrior Art And Near The End Of The 4096 Barrier) This Will
 Take You Past The SW Art To A Blank Area. Then Hit "S" And 
Type In The Size Pixels i.e. 86 ("RETURN") 75 ("RETURN") Now 
You Have A Pink Box And You Can Start Drawing. 
(Good Luck, It's Hard To Draw!) 

______ Making Animations ____________

Put The Tiles To Be Animated Right Next To Each Other. 
The First One In A Tile Like 3000, The Next One In Tile 3001 
Etc. Then Press The "-" To Select The Animation Style. 
NoAnm Means No Animation (Normal), OCIL Is Olcilation, 
It Goes Foward Then Back. AnmFD Is Animation Forward,
Then Straight To The Back At Then End And Start Again. A
nmBK Is Like AnmFD But Backward. Once The Style Is Chosen
 Press "+" To Choose Number. Use This formula:
 Number=Number-of-tiles-in-the-sequence - 1 Then, 
Hit "A" And Watch It Move! To Change The Animation 
Speeds Use The "+" And "-". 

_________ Importing And Exporting _______

 To Export A Picture Hit "F12". Once You Have Done That You 
Can Import It Somewhere Else By Hitting "U". If You Are Going 
To Import, The Picture Must Be In A .Gif Format, 256 Colours A
nd No Bigger Than 320x200 Pixels. 

__________ Making Transparents __________

To Make An Uploaded Pictures Extra Space Transparent, Use This
 Process. If The Area Wanted To Be Transparent Is All One Colour
, And Doesn't Occur In Any Other Part Of The Drawing: Choose 
The Transparent Colour By Pressing "Backspace" Or
 "Shift"+"Cursor Keys". Go To The Area And Press "C" It
 Should Replace All The Pixels Of That Colour You're On 
To The Chosen Colour. 

If Not All Uniform: Go To The Transparent Colour Via 
"Shift"+"Key Cursors" or "Backspace". Move Mouse To Outside
 The Picture To Cut. Press "T" Then Slowly Cut Out The Picture.
 Press "T" To Shut Trail Off Then Go To The Outside And
 Press "F" To Fill The Outside.

________ Editing The Art Files _________

Well, There's Not Much To It. Just Read This Guide 
Through And You Should Have All The Editing Help You Need.

_________ Cutting And Pasting __________

Press "1" To Start The Cutting Process, It Acts Like The 
Top-Left Point Of A Dotted-Cut-Line Box. Press "2" To End 
The Cutting Process, It Acts Like The Bottom-Right Point Of
 The Box. Press "3" To Paste It, The Top-Left Point Of The
 Paste Being Where The Cursor Position Is. Press "4" To Flip
 The Cut Peice Of Tile (Not Seen) In Memory X-Wise. Press "5"
 To Flip The Cut Peice Of Tile In Memory Y-Wise. Press "6" To
 Swap The "X" And "Y" 's Of The Piece Of Tile. Press "8" To 
Paste The Tile Like In "3" But A Bit Transparent. Press "/" 
To Halve The Region. Press "*" To Double The Region. 

_________ Keyboard Commands ______________

These Are Important Keyboard Commands But It's Not All Of Them.
 It's Just The Ones That Are Very Usefull. There Are Many More 
But, You Want To Know Then You Find Them Out For Yourself!
 Here Are The Ones That I Currently Have:

"Cursor Keys": Movement
 "Spacebar": Use Colour
 "Shift+Arrows": Change Colours 
"TAB": Update Current Colour 
"Backspace": Change To Transparent Colour
 "Page Up": Move Up A Tile 
"Page Down": Move Down A Tile 
"F": Flood Fill
 "G": Goto 
"T": Trail On Or Off
 "V": Menu 
"U": Imports 
"F12" Or "B": Exports 
"S": Change Pixel Size
 "N": Name 
"R": Rotate 
"J" Or "C" - change Every Pixel To 
The Cursor Is On The The Current Colour 

______ Junk About The Author And Stuff __________

This Is A Guide To Editart Made By Brad Cormier. 
Please Distribute It Freely But Do Not Take Any 
Credit For It. Um, Do Not Modify This And Distribute.
 Well, I Hope This Will Get You Started! 

____________ Where To Get This File _____________

Right Now, This File Is Only Availible At
 3DReview's Shadow Warrior Pages. 
Check It Out, They Have The Best SW Page On The WWW! 
Also Check Out Their Duke Nukem 3D Pages! It Also Rocks!

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Brad Cormier 
3DReview: http://www.3dreview.com/ 
Shadow Warrior: http://games.3dreview.com/sw/ 
Duke Nukem 3D: http://games.3dreview.com/duke3d/
