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PD/SprShift/!SprShift/Help_html
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| Filename: | PD/SprShift/!SprShift/Help_html |
| Read OK: | ✔ |
| File size: | 0630 bytes |
| Load address: | 0000 |
| Exec address: | 0000 |
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<html> <head> <!-- HTML just banged into zap. Editors and Impression savers are for squares --> <title>SprShift - Help and Information</title> </head> <body> <h1><img src="!Sprites22">!SprShift</h1> <p>Creating background bitmaps for backdrops or web pages can be awkward because when tiled the edges of the bitmap end tend to show up. This program rearranges the sprites in a sprite file so that these artifices may be edited away.<p> <h3>It works in this way:</h3> <p>Suppose you divide your bitmap into quarters. When tiled it looks like this: <p><img src="grid1"> <p>If we rearranged our sprite to what we have in the red box we have the edges running down the centre and can edited then out. <p>That's it. Simply fire up <strong>!SprShift</strong>, drag a sprite file onto it's icon and save it where you will.<br>It probably isn't necessary but if you want the original image back run it through again. <p><strong>!SprShift</strong> is freeware, I retain the copyright, so no fiddling with it. It is currently version 0.90 but already has a <a href="history">History</a>. There are also <a href="history#limits">Limitations</a> encompassing both stuff I can't be bothered to do and stuff I might do. <hr size=2> <p><admonishments>Disclaimer: <br>In an infinite universe anything is possible. You use this application at your own risk so don't blame me if it all goes pear shaped. That said, I don't see how it could. It's only shifting around bitmaps for God's sake.....</admonishments> <hr><address>© Mike Dickens, 1996</address><img src="sig"> </body> </html>
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