Example Style Explained

We'll now review the creation of a RetroCapture image from an image-style, step by step. The image style is a slightly modified version of gridfade, one of the standard styles in RetroCapture.

.image azuregridfade {
    length = 6;
    width = 140;
    height = 80;
    paint = grid { color = 555555; random = true };
    fade = true;
    warp = twist { transparency = 0.3; glyph = script };
    hue = azure;
    saturation = 25%;
}

• A passphrase of length 6 characters is generated: 7K4M8W.
• Style objects are reset: in particular, a twist angle is chosen at random for the twist warp-style.
• An empty canvas of size 140x80 pixels is created and painted white. (The border is shown for clarity and is not part of the image.)
• The grid paint-style is applied, with randomly chosen grid spacing.
• An edge fade is applied to the image.
• The passphrase is rendered using the script glyph-style and is warped onto the image using the twist warp-style.
• The monochrome canvas is recolored using the HSV color-space to a 25%-saturated, azure hue.
• This image is output in GIF89a format as a file named p42k68nt2j4g.gif and the following entry is made in the mapping file:

  7K4M8W    ./p42k68nt2j4g.gif    azuregridfade    c0e0ff