pixelmischief Posted January 20, 2015 Share Posted January 20, 2015 Does anyone have or know where I can get a copy of the manual for Apex Media? I need to push some pixels and I hear it's the best option on the Falcon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dml Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 (edited) Unfortunately I don't think I have an electronic copy, and the printed one is buried somewhere. But I can remember a lot of the controls. Most common ones: - right click in main window area to make menus appear/disappear when drawing - press 'z' to zoom in a level, or '\' to zoom out (keys next to each other). can do this to zoom while dragging also. - I think spacebar scrolls/centers the canvas at the mouse (e.g. while zoomed), but zoom/pan do this automatically as well. - left click on an icon activates that tool. IIRC right click accesses settings for the tool - you can clone the current image (frame) any number of times using the 'insert frame' buttons at the left and right end of the jog shuttle bar at the bottom - with this you can set up animations. there's a slider on the jog shuttle to move between them, and a play button to play back the animation - TC or 256 colour mode, and bigger-than-screen-canvas configuration can be set using the config icon somewhere on the lower left - cut/copy/paste works mostly as you'd expect, but you can load/save the pastebuffer via a special entry in the load/save page Importing/exporting single or multi-frame images/animations/brushes is a bit more complicated but it's all accessed through the load/save page. If you've ever seen Cyberpaint on an ST, Apex is very like that program for the Falcon - the Cyberpaint manual might be a clue for some of the key shortcuts too. If you have a specific question I might remember the answer Edited January 21, 2015 by dml Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zogging Hell Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 I remember doing half my A-Level graphic design on Apex, including a long animation for a fictional documentary, got a terrible grade because I only produced finished pieces and didn't show my working. Still would have been a lot worse without Apex, so thanks DML Still hoping you'll update those pages with more info on Apex 3 - I was salivating over that back in another life.. Rainbow 2 might also be worth a look if you need 'natural' drawing tools, which is one of the few things Apex lacks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dml Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 :-) I have some Apex 3 material still to upload but haven't got around to it due to other things going on. My site is several years stale and quite a lot of stuff now waiting to go up, including that. Yep, Apex was aimed at pixel painting/editing and especially animated sprites or other moving sequences for game dev (since that's what I was doing a lot of at the time). It has some other, more unusual tools outside of pixel painting (e.g. image processing/recolouring by brush) but for natural painting style on single images there are better alternatives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixelmischief Posted January 23, 2015 Author Share Posted January 23, 2015 Dude! Get that new stuff up! I have started a development project on the Falcon and need all the tools support I can get! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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