PROCESSING THE PICTURE

The stereoscopic main panel has four buttons:

   {[000,5,0] START }  starts the processing.

   {[000,5,0] GAME  }  starts a simple 3-D game.

   {[000,5,0] HELP  }  starts this User Guide.

   {[000,5,0] QUIT  }  ends the program.


When you click {[000,5,0] START }, a file selector appears and asks you to select a
picture for the background.  Click {[A14,0,7]here} if you don't know how to use a file
selector.  Remember that all the pictures you load into Stereop-Jr must be
made from the Stereop-Jr Template.  Click {[P04,4,7] here } to see the Template.  They
must be standard 8-colour 320x256-dot low-resolution IFF pictures, and the
picture must be drawn with only the last four colours.

After you select the background picture and click the {[000,5,0] OK } button, the
picture appears.  A bar appears in front of it and asks you if it's the
right picture.  If it is, click the {[000,5,0] YES } button (or press RETURN or the
Y key).  If it's not, click {[000,5,0] NO } (or press ESC or the N key).  If you say NO,
the main panel returns, and you have to start again.

After you select the background, the middleground and the foreground, the
screen goes black, and a bar appears that says "Splitting the BACKGROUND".
There's a narrow blue band that shows how the processing is going and a
button that says {[000,5,0] STOP }.  If you click it (or press ESC), the work stops,
and you go back to the main panel.

Meanwhile, you can put on your 3-D glasses and watch the background being
split into its red and blue components.

Then, after the middleground and foreground are split, the picture appears
with the middleground in front of the background.  Another bar appears.
This one says "Overlaying the foreground", and you can watch while the three
layers are assembled.

When the 3-D picture is finished, a bell rings and the file selector appears
again.  How much time the processing took is printed at the top of the file
selector.  Find a drawer to put your picture in, type in a title and click
the {[000,5,0] OK } button.  (Don't try to save your pictures on the StereopJr disk --
there isn't enough room.)

If you get tired of looking at your picture being processed, you can go to
Workbench and do something else by pressing LEFT AMIGA-A.  Come back the
same way.


EXTRA STUFF

Instead of clicking the buttons on the Main Panel, you can press keys on
your keyboard:

   Press  S or RETURN   for   {[000,5,0] START }.

   Press  G or SPACE    for   {[000,5,0] GAME }.

   Press  H or HELP     for   {[000,5,0] HELP }.

   Press  Q or ESC      for   {[000,5,0] QUIT }.


The F keys at the top of your keyboard also do things:

   Press F1 to look at a picture.  A file selector appears.  Select an IFF
     picture file up to 1023x1023, up to 64-colours.  Press a key or mouse
     button to stop looking at the picture.

   Press F2 to see who wrote the program.

   Press F3 to see the Introductory Screen (to adjust your monitor).

   Press F4 to F10 to play a musical note and watch the 3-D buttons go
     up and down.