Castle Paradox

Good thing about the GIMP, is that you can move around the colors in the index colormap to optimize sprite imports. After importing a few sprites, you end up with one walkabout using it's own palet ...

http://rpg.hamsterrepublic.com/ohrrpgce/Graphics_Wizardry#Pre-indexization

Along with some other techniques Happy

It's good to see there's a tutorial for that. I did that ages ago for SNOWY.RPG, and Shizuma asked how I did it, I just said: I dither the image in advance so all color matches are exact.

I've seen ...

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On the 'finding-inspiration-from-chaos' subject, here's an interesting game with MyPaint:

1. activate 'live update last stroke' in brush settings
2. scribble something (doing good scribbles for th ...

I'll bet someone's figured this out by now, so I'll ask:

Has anyone figured out how to get photoshop to edit graphics using the custom.exe colour palette (old or new)?

Eh? can't you just impor ...

Is that why all of the more recent palette images are broken? (403 forbidden)
Am just finishing up arranging my own palette (which is genuinely generic, in the same sense as the web palette is generi ...

You might find the numbers could be more meaningful if you made them logarithmic
Ah! That could be good for the bars. I think the numbers aren't as useful, except for concrete statistics.

Pepsi- ...

That's even more 'fantastic'. very lush palette. I'll give it a try when my GIMP is working again.
I did notice that the 7th color in the bottom row is *very* similar to a flesh tone on the fifth row ...

That looks nice. How does it compare to Paint Shop Pro?
In general: it doesn't. They are totally different creatures that may as well have originated from different galaxies. PSP edits images. Mypain ...

TMC: This is very cool -- and I really appreciate the effort you are going to, it's hugely helpful to me.

You might find the numbers could be more meaningful if you made them logarithmic
('from ma ...

I'm kind of surprised you got such a great result with my palette, since it has less really dark colors than the old palette. It seems it's more suited to this than I even knew!

You have a really n ...

Index with PS, convert back to 24bit RGB, import the result.

If this doesn't work, then you are indexing to the wrong palette.

Thanks TMC and IM for reminding me of the importance of that project.
*specifically schedules dev time on every Tues/Thur*

That reminds me of the famous article that predicted the success of open source, called 'Worse is better'. It's kind of like.. over time, both the number of bugs and ease of squashing a bug increases, ...