etoy space invader tutorial (alpha)

Stephen Pair spair at advantive.com
Sun Nov 4 19:14:02 UTC 2001


I didn't mean to imply that painting your own morph should be
discouraged.  Linking to a paint tutorial would be good.

- Stephen

Alan Kay wrote:
> Stephen --
> 
> But it is "good" (especially for children) for them to paint their 
> own objects instead of using a form of clip art. There are several 
> paint tutorials online, and these could be linked through Karl's 
> tutorial.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Alan
> 
> -------
> 
> At 12:29 PM -0500 11/4/01, Stephen Pair wrote:
> >I did do that...also, you can use the new "grab flood area 
> from screen" 
> >option to accomplish the same thing.  I was speaking more 
> for someone 
> >else running the tutorial who might not know how to do all 
> of that.  I 
> >think it's best if the tutorial focuses on the script 
> building aspects 
> >and not get off on tangents like the paint tool (which 
> deserves its own 
> >tutorial).
> >
> >- Stephen
> >
> >>  You can just pull out a copy to the desktop, use the 
> repaint  handle 
> >> and fill the grayish background with transparent. I'll  do 
> this with 
> >> the  screenshots to, but I recomend painting yourself to 
> get exposed 
> >> to  the tools and how they work together :-)
> >>
> >>  Karl
> >>
> >>
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> 





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