QUESTION: Funky Palette Apps?

lemmy101 · Thu 12/01/2006 13:37:50

Hi all, I'm having a problem using the import mask stuff on scrollable backgrounds, mainly for the following reason:

We use DPaint Animation for doing sprites/backgrounds, which is great. Setting up the palettes for import mask is easy... Except DPaint Animation cannot draw a screen larger than 320 x 200, so for scrollable backgrounds, which we paint in Photoshop first, we cannot import it into DPaint to sort out the mask palettes...

Photoshop does stupid things to the palettes, reversing them, and no matter what we try (mainly setting up a palette in reverse in DPaint and exporting it to Photoshop, we cannot seem to get a palette that's accepted in AGS.

Please can anyone suggest any good (free) tools/apps for sorting out the palettes?

Cheers!

lemmy101

Gilbert · Fri 13/01/2006 01:05:00

Use DP 2 enhanced instead for the mask (DPA supports only 320x200). And this is not an AGS technical question, so I'm moving this.

MrColossal · Fri 13/01/2006 15:19:05

I use photoshop too and I hate that it flips palettes...

So I asked Ghormak to make this little program for me:

http://kafkaskoffee.com/junk/paledit_beta4.rar

just load the palette into AGS, export the palette as a .pal and then load it into this program, hit the flip button and it'll take everything and flip it vertically.

You can also do other things like resort the palette one at a time but the flipping is most useful for photoshop users.

Eric

CaptainBinky · Fri 13/01/2006 17:41:13

Also, you could try Promotion
http://www.cosmigo.com/promotion

It's not free, but a snip at $30 (with a 30-day free trial). It's essentially DPaint Animation for Windows, but with some extra stuff. Also, being Windows-based, you can do pretty much any size image you like.

The only down-side for me is that I like to make 320x200 images in a program running that resolution so that you're seeing everything at the correct aspect ratio. So for that reason (and a few personal reasons) I prefer to use DPaint Animation for sprites and DPaint II for backgrounds.