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Box 368, San Luis Obispo, CA 93406 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION TO VISTAPRO ........................................................ 1-1 Notes on Vistapro .................................................................................... 1-2 Vistapro String Gadgets .................................................................... 1-2 Vistapro on Accelerated Amigas ...................................................... 1-2 Vistapro Landscapes ......................................................................... 1-2 Vistapro Stack Requirements ........................................................... 1-3 Loading Vistapro from the CU or a Shell ....................................... 1-3 Limits of Vistapro's World ............................................................... 1-4 What is Vistapro? .................................................................................... 1-4 How Vistapro Works .............................................................................. 1-4 Some Uses for Vistapro .......................................................................... 1-5 Speeding Up Vista pro ............................................................................. 1-6 Making the Most of Vistapro ................................................................. 1-7 Lighting .............................................................................................. 1-7 Snow and tree line setting considerations ....................................... 1-7 Changing colors ................................................................................. 1-8 Foreground "fat polys" or "jaggies" ................................................ 1-8 A note about aesthetics ..................................................................... 1-9 Exploration with Vistapro ................................................................ 1-9 Your own data ................................................................................. 1-10 VISTAPRO USERMANUAL ..................................................................... 2-1 Getting Started ......................................................................................... 2-1 Floppy System ......................................................................................... 2-1 Installation .......................................................................................... 2-1 Making Working Copies ................................................................... 2-1 One Drive Systems: ........................................................................... 2-1 Multiple Drive System: ..................................................................... 2-2 Renaming Your Working Copy ....................................................... 2-2 Hard Disk ................................................................................................. 2-3 General Information About Vistapro ................................................... 2-3 The Vista pro Disks ............................................................................ 2-3 VISTAPRO MENUS .................................................................................... 3-1 Project Menu ............................................................................................ 3-1 Landscape Size ................................................................................... 3-2 Small ............................................................................................ 3-2 Large ............................................................................................ 3-2 Huge ............................................................................................ 3-2 Auto ............................................................................................. 3-3 v Load Image ........................................................................................ 3-3 IFF ................................................................................................ 3-4 IFF 24 ........................................................................................... 3-4 Save Image ......................................................................................... 3-4 IFF ................................................................................................ 3-4 IFF 24 ........................................................................................... 3-4 RGB ............................................................................................. 3-5 Load Landscape ................................................................................. 3-5 Vistapro DEM ............................................................................. 3-6 DEM Region ............................................................................... 3-7 ColorMap .................................................................................... 3-8 Binary .......................................................................................... 3-8 Save Landscape ................................................................................. 3-8 Vistapro DEM ............................................................................. 3-9 Turbo Silver ................................................................................ 3-9 ColorMap .................................................................................. 3-10 Extended DEM ......................................................................... 3-10 Print .................................................................................................. 3-10 About ................................................................................................ 3-11 Vistapro ..................................................................................... 3-11 Landscape ................................................................................. 3-11 Quit ................................................................................................... 3-11 Script Menu ............................................................................................ 3-12 Generate ........................................................................................... 3-13 Create ................................................................................................ 3-13 Open ............................................................................' ..................... 3-13 Add ................................................................................................... 3-14 Preview ............................................................................................. 3-14 Execute ............................................................................................. 3-14 Anim Mode ...................................................................................... 3-14 IFF .............................................................................................. 3-14 IFF24 .......................................................................................... 3-15 RGB ............................................................................................ 3-15 VANIM ..................................................................................... 3-15 Display Menu ......................................................................................... 3-17 Image Size ........................................................................................ 3-17 Low Res ...........................................................................................