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TileDreams is a graphic-design tool, grounded in principles of geometry and trigonometry to convert the users mouse and keyboard commands into a work of art. It is especially well suited for precise placement and alignment of polygons, and adherence to principles of symmetry, though there is no prohibition on a completely free-form design. Main Interface
The shape on the screen will follow your mouse movements. Left-click, and a copy of the shape will be added to the display area where you click. By default, the Detect Vertex option will be set to 3 pixels. This option tells TileDreams to change the tile's fill color to the highlight color when the mouse is near. After placing a tile, the mouse is still aligned over the just-placed tile, thus highlighting the current tile, attached to the mouse-cursor. Move the mouse away from the tile-vertex, and the fill-color will return to it's original color. Move the mouse and left-click when you have chosen a place to put the next tile. To change the angle of orientation for the shape, use the tile-rotation keys:
To change the shape, either tap the space bar, or choose a shape from the shape-menu.
The shape-menu, with the button pressed-in, displaying the available tiles. Continue adding tiles until you are satisfied with your design.Designs can be saved in .FRT format, which is an ASCII text-version of the coordinates that make up each tile, the color-settings for each element that can be colored, and the outline-thickness for each tile. Designs can also be saved as Windows® bitmap file. Bitmaps are infamously huge, and should be converted to a more space-efficient file format using any popular graphic-file editor. |
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