Short: Visual Eng. - Shadow v3.34 Author: marko.seppanen@wwnet.fi (Marko Seppänen) Uploader: marko seppanen wwnet fi (Marko Seppänen) Type: gfx/edit Architecture: m68k-amigaos Visual Engineering script - Shadow v3.34 SHORT DESCRIPTION This script adds different kind of dropshadows for logos/pictures. REQUIREMENTS Image Engineer v3.41 (Wision release 2) GaussianEdge.rexx (VE-gausedge.lha) Sys:Rexxc/RX INSTALLATION Archive where this file came from should be extracted to a directory where you installed Image Engineer. This script must be in IE:Arexx/ USAGE Short explanation of different methods: Normal - Use this to black & white shapes Grey Antialias - Use this to allready smooth edged grey shapes Color Antialias - Use this to allready smooth edged colored shapes Outline - This one adds a shadow & some pixels wide outline around shape Rectangle - This one takes the whole image window as shape Lowpass & Transparency - These add a blurtype effect to image and mixes it together with the original. You can add some empty work space around picture, but then you need AddSpace.rexx Background must be totally white (R255 G255 B255). ARGUMENTS address command "rexx:rx ie:arexx/Shadow.rexx" - is name of the picture - is number or name of the shadow-effect without spaces (e.q. 0 or colorantialias) - if "yes" or "1", then PrimaryColors.rexx is used for color of shadow - lowpassvalue - thresholdvalue - horizontal offset of shadow - vertical offset of shadow - name of color in PrimaryColor.rexx or "random". After either one can be "1" with space, which means Contrast Stretch. Where asked for name of shadow, it can also be given as number of item in pop-up-menu. First item number 0. When given as name remove spaces from name. AmigaDOS Sys:Rexxc/RX Shadow.rexx Sys:Rexxc/RX 000_testpic.iff 0 YES 15 250 -5 -5 RED Sys:Rexxc/RX 000_testpic.iff lowantialias no 9 255 -5 -5 Other scripts: ADDRESS COMMAND "Sys:Rexxc/RX IE:Arexx/Shadow.rexx " Next lines return you the name of this new picture. PROJECT_LIST xyz=result pic=subword(xyz,1,1) HISTORY 3.34 When using build in AddSpace, most of effecttypes would fail. This problem is fixed now. Personally I use IE's build in feature to set up hotkeys. A for AddSpace, S for Shadow... Added short explanations of effects to .notes. 3.32 Outline-typee was calling "rexx:rx", when it should have called "sys:rexxc/rx". Fixed. 3.31 Now there's only 2 kinds of shadows for allready antialiased shapes. One for black or grey images. And one for colorful images. VE-Extras v1.72+ needed. New effect: Outline, can be used to grey or color images. White outline will be added around original shape. 3.23 Calls to external scripts had a minor bug. 3.22 Added possibility to adjust threshold of picture for shadow. OBS! Argument parsing changed. DELETE ie:Prefs/veshadow.cfg!!! 3.20 Call to external script, AddSpace.rexx was buggy. Fixed. 3.19 New argument parser and better handling of arguments. Read Notes/Shadow.notes, if you want to call this script from your own scripts. It's now much easier to do some patch processing. No more effects' subeffects. Every effect has it's own menu item. If an error occurs, delete all the files from IE:Prefs/ with filename "veshadow#?.cfg" 2.95 Call to external script PrimaryColors.rexx (v1.72+) uses different method now. 2.94 Now you can call this script from other scripts too or in other words do some batch processing. 2.88 New effect available! Regtangle-effect is made just for regtangle pictures. It's not very useful for other shapes. Better shading than with Normal-effect. You'll see the difference. PS. Maybe I someday join effects together, so all the different effects could be affected to same picture on one run. Show some support and I'll do it. Just by saying "Hi there!" is almost enough. 2.78 Normal is now abnormal! You can now use rastered shadows. For example when mixed with vertical lines gives really cool results. Adjusting lowpass value now affects all the shadow types. 2.60 New in this version is possibility to add shadows to those shapes, that use some kind of antialiasing or smoothing on their edges. Before there would be lot of white pixels between logo and shadow. Smooth-effect tries its best to handle this.I've now included builtin dropshadow-effect to Visual Logo. It was quite impossible to do it user friendly, after Visual Logo. 2.50 History started DISTRIBUTION The archive, where this file came from, can be distributed using any kind of media or distribution channel (CD, Email, WWW, BBS, FTP...), but contents of original archive can not be modified. YOU MAY NOT SPREAD MODIFIED VERSIONS OF THIS SCRIPT AT ALL!! If you are going to spread a script made by you, which calls one of Visual Engineering -scripts, you must include either to documentfile of your script or header of the script itself, Visual Engineering's website address and my name and email address. Like this: /* This script uses Visual Engineering -script(s): AddSpace.rexx, PrimaryColors.rexx By Marko Seppänen Visual Engineering website: http://wwnet.fi/users/smarko/visual/ */ WORLD WIDE WEB Image Engineer http://www.amigaworld.com/support/imageengineer/ SViewIV http://www.ar-kleinert.de/sview_e.html Visual Engineering http://wwnet.fi/users/smarko/visual/ AMINET Image Engineer http://ftp.sunet.se/aminetbin/find?imeng SViewIV http://ftp.sunet.se/aminetbin/find?sviewiv Visual Engineering http://ftp.sunet.se/aminetbin/find?visual+eng.