GRAD RECTANGLE

Grad. rect / Grad. menu LEFT CLICK (Key:Alt+'R') Selects the rectangle with gradations as the active drawing tool. Set a corner of a rectangle. Maintain the click to move the opposite corner and release the mouse button to set it definitively. If you don't like what you have done and want to restart, you can use the right click to cancel everything at this point. If you think it's nice, then click and hold the mouse in a point you want to have the starting color, drag to a point where you want the ending color, and release the button. You can press SHIFT to enforce your line to be vertical, horizontal, or diagonal. RIGHT CLICK (Key:Alt+'G') Opens a window where you can define the way gradations are processed. The different sections of this menu are: - Direction (arrow): Switches the direction of the gradation. - Dithering method: Toggles the 3 following methods: - No dithering - Basical dithering - Enhanced dithering - Mix: Mixes the gradation with a more or less random factor. - Palette: Select a color range to build a gradation. - Index scroller: Defines the current gradation among a set of 16 that will be memorised. COLOR CYCLING These options allow you to use animation of colors: Grafx2 will shift palette entries at real-time. We save theses data in IFF, NEO and Degas Elite formats. Also in non standard extension of PNG and GIF files. But very few image viewers will play them back. - Cycling: Activates or desactivates the cycling of colors when you're in the editor. Key: Ctl+'`' - Speed: Sets the speed for the cycling of this range. Zero means this range doesn't cycle. With 1, the range shifts 0.2856 times per second; at speed 64 it's 18.28 times per second. The program activates cycling while you hold the speed slider, so you can preview the speed.