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Scrolling backgrounds in DPaint 5?
« on: April 06, 2009, 01:45:51 PM »
Anyone know how to scroll a background horizontally in DPaint 5?
 

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Re: Scrolling backgrounds in DPaint 5?
« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2009, 12:20:08 AM »
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You take the first background and move it on the X axis until it moves off the screen, lets say 30 frames.  




That doesn't make any sense at all does it? ;-)



I got the general gist there, but how do I move a background on the X-axis?  I can do that with a brush using the move requestor, but how do I tell DPaint to do the same with a background?

i am doing an animation where a cartoon character is walking along the ground, but instead of moving him across the screen, he is stationary but the background moves behind him
 

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Re: Scrolling backgrounds in DPaint 5?
« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2009, 01:34:27 AM »
I dug up an old review in CU Amiga that says DPaint 5 supports scrolling backgrounds and that it is easy to do using the move requestor, they even have a screen shot of a background scrolling by behind some brushes, but alas they didn't say how to do it.
 

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Re: Scrolling backgrounds in DPaint 5?
« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2009, 01:02:38 PM »
Thanks for that.

But the way the CU Amiga review of DPaint 5 is written it gives the impression that the background scrolling was a new feature to DPaint 5.  That would imply a new built in function that did the scrolling, as different from cutting it out as a brush and animating with the move requestor.  But maybe thats the way i read it.

Thanks anyway, will probably end up doing it the way you said.