Hello people. My name is da_infamous, youngest Pivot Lord member alive at the moment. I am here you give you n00bs and everybody else a tutorial that will help you out a little with both v2.2.5 and v3.0 Beta. Lets start!
-Pivot v2.2.5
I've been using Pivot since I was 7, and the program has had me hooked for three years. My first was with this program.
--Buttons
---File
New-Start a new animation.
Open Animation-Open up one of your previous animations.
Save Animation-Save your animation as a piv., gif., or bmp. frames.
Load Background-Load up a background for your animation. (In this version, the background you load is the background you will use for the whole animation.)
Clear Background-Erases the background you loaded up.
Load Figure Type-Load up a stk file.
Create Figure Type-Create your own stk file.
Exit-Exit the Pivot program.
---Options
Width-Shows how wide your animation is in pixels.
Height-Shows how tall your animation is in pixels.
Ok-Confirms the settings and dimensions for your animation.
Cancel-Exit the options and nothing is changed.
---Help
View Readme File-Shows Readme file of Pivot.exe.
About-Shows the date Pivot was released and the name of the developer, along with a logo.
---Animation Buttons
Play-Plays your animation.
Stop-Stops the animation so you can get back to work.
Frame Rate Toolbar-Changes the speed of your animation.
Repeat-If checked, it will keep looping until you uncheck it or stop it.
Stk Scrollbar-Shows you the list of stks you have in your animation.
Add Figure-Add a selected stk to your animation.
Next Frame-Adds a frame to the animation.
---Current Figure Buttons
Delete-Erases the selected stk.
Edit-Takes you to the Stick Figure Creator so you can edit thte selected stk.
Center-Puts the selected stk back in the middle of the animation.
Flip-Turns the selected stk to the opposite side.
Colour/Color-Takes you to the color select screen where you can change the color of the selected stk.
Scale Scrollbar-Measures the size of the selected stk.
Front-Puts the selected stk in front of all the other stks.
Back-Puts the selected stk behind all the other stks.
---Stk creator Buttons
Line-Enables you to add a line to one of the red nodes or the orange node.
Circle-Enables you to add a circle to one of the red nodes or the orange node.
Toggle Segment Kind-Allows you to change the selected segement to a circle or line.
Thickness-Changes the thickness of the selected segment.
Duplicate-Makes a copy of the selected segment that you put on one of the nodes.
Static/Dynamic-If it's static, then that selected segment will not be able move in the animation. Dynamic is the opposite of static.
Delete-Delete the selected segment. (only deletes the segments on the end.)
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More to come!
Can I get some reps now? (Lgolos now has some competition....)
