IssueBiggest Ever! £4.00 Issue 14, Spring 2003 8.00Euro Quake 2 Read our comprehensive review of Hyperions’s latest port. Hollywood Take a seat and enjoy our full review of this exciting new multimedia blockbuster! Contents Features The Show Must Go On! Editorial Welcome to another issue of Candy for SEAL’s Mick Sutton gives us an insight into the production of WoASE. Total Amiga, as you will no-doubt Issue 14 usergroups can afford. To give balance between space for the have noticed this issue is rather ack in the good old days we you an idea a venue capable of punters and giving the exhibitors late, which is a pity as we had Candy Factory is a graphics A built-in character generator had World of Amiga shows holding between 300 and 500 the stand space they require improved our punctuality over OS4 B the last few issues. application designed for allows you to add effects to Spring 2002 put on every year, usually at a people can cost anywhere from (some companies get a real bee high profile site (Wembley) and £500 to £1000 (outside London) in their bonnet about where they Unfortunately the main reason making logos and other text in any font without leaving texture again based on the all well attended. Everybody for a day. are situated). The floorplan goes behind the delay was that the graphics with high quality 3D the program. You can also load Contents wanted to be there and be seen, through many revisions before SCSI controller and PPC on my textured effects quickly and shapes (for example a logo) light source. Whilst on the subject of costs Amiga was seen as a very the final layout is agreed (I CyberStorm PPC accelerator without the need for a complex created in another program • Texture mapping, colour your there are also other expenses to popular alternative to the should know)! have stopped working 3D package or spending hours and add effects to them. objects using an image. News consider such as ticket printing cumbersome PC. After the (miraculously the ‘060 side still combining effects in an image and distribution, insurance, food As the day of the show Some of Candy Factory’s Editorial ..............................3 collapse of Commodore seems to be okay) and it took a processor. Many readers will to be sold (or not) and hire of approaches there are lots of final features include: When you’ve found a News Items ........................3 commercial shows gradually while to get things sorted so I remember that this program projectors, PA etc. Most of these preparations which must be combination of effects you like shrank with World of Amiga 99 could access my data again. caused quite a stir when it was • Material effects, used to MorphOS & Pegasos costs have to be paid up front by completed. The usergroups have Candy Factory can save them being the last commercial show. Anyway I’m back up and running Update ...............................8 the usergroups and we then to identify members who will help released a few years ago, create the look of materials allowing you to re-use them on Several Amiga user groups were now and the delay has had one Alan Redhouse Column.. 10 hope to get our money back from set up the show, act as nothing like it had been seen such as wood, metals and another project. The package not satisfied without a regular positive side effect - we were on the Amiga before. One of glass. Fleecy Moss Column .......11 stand charges and ticket sales. stewards, collect tickets and able to complete more content is supplied with a range of show and decided to organise the key features of the original • Bevelling to instantly give Buzz Word........................11 One of the advantages of many other tasks. Any for this issue making it the example settings so you can their own shows. release was it’s support for your graphics a 3D look. WoASE Show Report...... 12 usergroup run shows is that the presentations, demonstrations biggest magazine we’ve ever make great looking graphics After several smaller shows stand prices are very affordable and tutorials have to be planned PPC accelerators which meant • Glow, creates a bright AmigaOS 4 Update......... 14 published at 52 pages! A special straight away. SEAL, Kickstart, ANT and ASA compared to commercial shows. and we try to make a timetable thank you must go to everyone that most effects could be smooth glow around objects. Features got together to organise a joint As shows have to be planned but often we don’t find out what who contributed to this issue, adjusted in real-time, great for • Drop shadow, casts a drop Now ZeoNeo, well known for show in the South East of about six months in advance companies are going to do till the and I should point out that the perfecting the look of a graphic shadow based on the their AmigaDE games such as The Show Must Go On! ....2 England. So the idea of World of (venues get booked up very day of the show! The keen eyed delay is down to me, not the or just playing around to see position of the light source. Planet Zed, have acquired Web Design Feature ....... 16 Amiga South East was born and quickly) it’s very difficult to judge amongst you will have noticed contributors, all these pages what could be achieved. • Bump-mapping, gives objects ownership of Candy Factory Web Design Utilities........ 20 the first task was to find a venue. how many visitors will come various posters and signs dotted certainly wouldn’t have been and the original programmer, particularly in the current Amiga around the venue, of course Flashback: A1000 ........... 25 It was obvious from the start that possible without you! We’ll do Milan Pollé, is one of their market (will there be a BIG these all have to be designed any venue had to meet certain our best to get back to regular developers. Version 2 of Candy Tales of Tamar Update.... 32 release at the show)? and printed. criteria. Excellent transport links three-monthly publication for Factory for AmigaOS 4 will be Reviews by both road (close to M25) and With the date and venue On the morning of the show issue 15. ZeoNeo’s first desktop Hollywood ....................... 25 railways are essential as is good decided, advertising for the show many hands are needed to set I don’t have space here to talk AmigaOS product. The new car parking (preferably free) at can start. With no news stand up the venue following the version will not only take Spider USB ..................... 28 about all the great things in this the venue. We all know Amigans magazines it centres on the floorplan, this all has to be done advantage of the new features SoundFX 4.2 ................... 30 issue so you’ll just have to read like a drink or two so a licensed internet and smaller publications before the companies arrive. through and find out for of OS4 and the power of the Software Tycoon ............. 34 bar is also a priority. The venue like Total Amiga to get the word This is the reason why one day yourselves! new PPC hardware but it will Quake 2 .......................... 38 has to also be the right size, big out. At the same time companies shows tend to open at around also have more effects, new As usual I hope you enjoy the PD Paradise.................... 42 enough to hold the exhibitors but have to be approached (coaxed) midday as we don’t have access features and an improved work not so big that you have enough to exhibit at the show, some to the venue the night before and magazine and if you have any comments and suggestions flow to offer even more Support room for a game of football as companies are always very companies have to travel from possibilities. well! Another important supportive whilst others won’t far afield. please get in touch. Top Tips........................... 44 consideration is that the venue is come to a usergroup show on More information on Candy So now you’ve got a feel for the Robert Williams GoldEd Configuration near at least one of the principle (you know who they Factory 2 should be available work involved in putting on Editor Tutorial............................. 46 usergroups so they can do all are). When the bookings start WoASE turn to our show report [email protected] on the Zeoneo website by the the pre-show groundwork. Above rolling (or trickling) in it’s time to Poseidon HID Tutorial..... 49 to see how it turned out on the time you read this: all the venue has to have all get the floorplans out and design day! http://www.zeoneo.com Back Issues..................... 51 these qualities at a price the the layout of the show. 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