8544361@wwu.edu (My Kharma ran over my Dogma...) (09/12/89)
Did the iff versions of the neptune pics ever make it to an ftp site? if so, where? -thanks -brian mcewen
kherron@ms.uky.edu (Kenneth Herron) (09/14/89)
f.ms.uky.edu 128.163.128.6 has the whole set. The two picture archives (neptune1.zoo and neptune2.zoo) are each over 500k; neptune3 contains one picture (the color HAM shot) and three display programs; this archive is only around 65k. They're currently in incoming/Pictures/IFF, but they ought to move when one of the archivists gets around to it. Kenneth Herron
jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) (09/15/89)
In article <12673@s.ms.uky.edu> kherron@ms.uky.edu (Kenneth Herron) writes: >f.ms.uky.edu 128.163.128.6 has the whole set. The two picture archives >(neptune1.zoo and neptune2.zoo) are each over 500k; neptune3 contains >one picture (the color HAM shot) and three display programs; this archive >is only around 65k. For those of you who have downloaded the files from TRANTOR.UMD.EDU and have problems with best7c and best7d - The file neptune4.zoo contains good copies of those two pictures only and updated icon files. For those of you who haven't gotten the pictures yet - forget about the file neptune4.zoo. I have corrected the problems in neptune2.zoo and re-uploaded it to Trantor in info-amiga/pub/neptune2.zoo. All you need is neptune1.zoo, neptune2.zoo, neptune3.zoo, and neptune0.readme. The icons were created by reading the hires 16-color pictures into DigiPaint and saving them to RAM:, then copying the .info files back to disk. It's a technique I find very useful for IFF files that lack icons. -- Joe Smith (408)922-6220 | SMTP: JMS@F74.TYMNET.COM or jms@tymix.tymnet.com McDonnell Douglas FSCO | UUCP: ...!{ames,pyramid}!oliveb!tymix!tardis!jms PO Box 49019, MS-D21 | PDP-10 support: My car's license plate is "POPJ P," San Jose, CA 95161-9019 | narrator.device: "I didn't say that, my Amiga did!"
hrlaser@sactoh0.UUCP (Harv R. Laser) (09/17/89)
In article <587@tardis.Tymnet.COM> jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) writes: [stuff about Neptune pictures deleted] > >The icons were created by reading the hires 16-color pictures into >DigiPaint and saving them to RAM:, then copying the .info files back >to disk. It's a technique I find very useful for IFF files >that lack icons. Joe - here's a little trick you might find entertaining: When Digipaint (original or "3") saves a picture, as you know, it creates a miniaturized icon version of that picture for a WorkBench icon. But the icons it creates are rather small. Maybe you'd like to have BIGGER mini-pic-icons? Here's how: if an icon with the same filename as the picture you're about to save out of DigiPaint already exists in the directory to which you're saving the picture, instead of erasing it and creating a new icon, DigiPaint will actually resize the mini-pic to that existing icon's size. Find or create a PROJECT icon in the correct height/width proportions - that is, similar to the proportions of the kind of icon DigiPaint normally saves. Eyeballing it is usually good enough. Move this icon over to where you're going to save your DigiPaint pictures. Rename it to the same name as a picture you're about to save. Or make a whole bunch of copies of it with different names. Then load your pic into DigiPaint and just save it back out again with the name used for one of those large(er) icons. Whammo (tm), you've got nice big icons that are miniature versions of the pictures you saved. Later, if you feel really ambitious, you can further modify those nice looking icons with something like John Scheib's IconMaster or Mike Bodin's IconMeister programs, both of which can do things to icons that IconEd can only dream about. Have Fun. -- | Harv Laser | SAC-UNIX, Sacramento, Ca. | | Plink: CBM*HARV | UUCP=...pacbell!sactoh0 | | "The human brain is the only computer made of meat" |