CYRA CarGo 95 Select File Edit Wax Edit Sequence Edit Frame Delay Show Show Wax Show Sequence Show Frame Show Cell Save Wax File Cells to Pac Config Cyra Pac(s) to Wax This is Cyras main menu, listing most of its functions for selection. Cyra Cyra is a full wax editor that will let you edit a wax files wax positions, sequence positions and frame positions. Cyra is basically a sequencer for cells. A wax file structure is designed to let the Jedi engine know what frames to play and in what order. Cyra will let you change the order of things at will. Cyra will let you view the cells order of play through "Show Wax" and "Show Sequence" and "Show Frame". Show Cells will let you scroll through each cell. You can alter some vars in the "Edit" sections and save as a new wax if you wish. Cyra Points The "Edit" sections are an important feature( but not the only by far )of Cyra. You can scroll through each individual wax or sequence or frame or cell of any wax file and then use the "Show" features to see what you have chosen. I employed a floating variable approach, ( not floating decimal )in that whatever is selected in either the the edit or show sections, becomes the current object. Yeah, that's it, object oriented. That means that if wax 1 seq 1 frame 1 points to cell 15, cell 15 is the object. Don't worry it's all psycho babble anyway. You will get the hang of it. Those strange numbers that you can only select but not alter are file pointers. Just enter on a pointer you want to change and scroll through the valid choices. Cyra Knows Fmecad Two important features that unlock the door to new wax making are the Cells to Pac and the Pac to Wax sections. You will learn two new words, Waxpac and Pacwax. To make a waxpac simply select a wax THEN select Cells to Pac. You will be shown stats as to which cells will make Fmecad's cut. If this feature sounds familiar then you can throw Waxoff away since Cyras Cells to Pac does the job EXACTLY. I blew it the first time out. That brings up a limitation of the whole CarGo 95 expedition, 99 x 99 and you know what I mean. That means that some of the cells or all for that matter, may not make the cut. Don't sweat it though, hear me out. Pac this! Cloning is what a Pacwax is all about. A good solution to a nagging problem. While something of the Kell dragons size will not make it into Fmecad, you can still use its cell logic. Let me back up before moving forward. A perfect Cloning would be the storm trooper. All of its cells meet the 99 x 99 limit and two pac files are created. Run Fmecad and load the first pac. Notice the order, from 1 to 32, in which the cells were saved. Each cell represents an action of events. When drawing a new creature, the relative action and position of what you draw should be close to the original. If the cell you are drawing was originally walking, then your new cell should mimic that action. If the cell you are drawing was originally facing to the left then your new cell should mimic that position. The size of the creature does not matter. Cyra will compute new file positions. That is cloning defined by Cyra ( er.. me). So, what if some frames don't make the cut or none of the frames make the cut? The road is a little longer but the result will be the same. Make some shorthand of actions and positions while viewing the wax and adjust your pac files accordingly. Bangggg the logic has been cloned. Cyra in Motion First, stuff Cyra along with a bemypal.pal file into a directory of your choice. Run the program and you will be prompted to supply path names for pacs, waxes, and the bemypal.pal. The path name MUST end with a backslash AND there must be at least one pac and one wax in their respective directorys. I set up this program as a GUI of sorts so the program should be easy to learn. With that in mind... Have at it. P.S. I changed the program since I wrote this text and all cells regardless of their size, will be saved to Pac. That is at least a 99 x 99 portion. Carlos