TRAPSMITH TOOLBELT - how to install
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1. Plug in the flash drive and open it.
2. Double-click  "Install Trapsmith.bat"  (inside the Trapsmith folder).
   - If Windows says "Windows protected your PC", click "More info", then "Run anyway".
   - If it asks to let Python make changes, click Yes.
3. Leave the black window open. It needs the internet and takes about 15-30 minutes
   the first time. It copies everything onto your computer, so it keeps working after
   the flash drive is unplugged.
4. When it's done, the Trapsmith Toolbelt opens by itself, and there are Trapsmith
   icons on your Desktop. You can unplug the flash drive.

From then on: double-click "Trapsmith Toolbelt" on the Desktop and press LAUNCH on any app.

Your apps
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- Image Workshop      - make pictures bigger and sharper, cut them to print sizes, and restore
                        old photos (scratches, grain, faded colour, blurry faces).
- Clip Studio         - turn a long video into short clips with captions, fix the words, and add
                        an AI voiceover (the Voiceover box: pick a voice and a speed, slow to 2x fast).
- Seller Back Office  - products, prices, profit and orders for online shops.
- Game Dev Assets     - make art with AI (or redraw a photo, e.g. as a cartoon), sprite sheets, tiles, icons.
- Prompt Riff         - talk an idea through with an AI and get picture prompts.
- 3D Game Engine      - make and play simple 3D games.
- 3D Sprite Renderer  - turn a picture into a 3D model you can spin, rig and make move.
- Story Studio        - write and illustrate a story or picture book.
- Social Studio       - get posts ready for your social media sites.
Every box you type in has a spell checker: a word it doesn't know turns yellow - right-click it to fix it.

Good to know
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- Everything runs on your own computer. Your pictures and videos never leave it.
- Any computer works. With an NVIDIA graphics card the AI parts are fast; with any other
  card they use the processor instead, which works but is slower.
- The first time you use an AI feature (upscaling, speech, AI voice, AI art) the app
  downloads its AI model once. After that it works offline.
- Game Dev Assets' AI art maker needs a free Hugging Face sign-in the first time, and it is
  really only practical with an NVIDIA card. Ask Paul to help with that one.
- The 3D Sprite Renderer also really needs an NVIDIA card (its 3D maker is a big download,
  about 2 GB, the first time).

Updates (from Paul's flash drive)
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1. Plug in the flash drive Paul gave you with the new Trapsmith on it.
2. Open the Trapsmith Toolbelt and click "Check for updates" (top right).
3. Click Yes. The Toolbelt closes, a black window puts the new version on, and the Toolbelt opens again.
Your pictures, shop data and settings are kept (they're in the _Data folder
inside Trapsmith, and in AppData / Documents). The version number is at the bottom of the Toolbelt.

If something goes wrong
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Send Paul a photo of the window and the file  install-log.txt  in the Trapsmith folder
(C:\Users\<your name>\Trapsmith). Running "Install Trapsmith.bat" again is always safe -
it carries on where it stopped.
