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Genny gfx tools for PC?
Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 3:48 pm
by jobro
Is there any gfx tools on PC to convert pictures to the Genny palette? I know that there is a tool that can convert from a 16 color image, but from 24 bit images?
Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 4:32 pm
by Fonzie
Psp6 (paint shop pro6, no other version) can work on all color modes from 1 bit to 32bit...
I use it for all my pixel works (along with Pedit to carefully chose colors and generate a palette to load in paintshoppro6).
Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 4:59 pm
by evenpace
pretty sure Gimp can handle this as well!
Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 9:32 pm
by TmEE co.(TM)
I make palettes with my TGFedit 0.24 or with IrfanView 3.8, but draw everything with MS-Paint. Fonz is PSP6 freak, I'm Paint
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 12:31 pm
by Edge-`
I use Photoshop to make the images (making the image indexed for the colors I want, saving the palette as a file if I need to mix and match), then I use Kaneda's gfx tool (the old one with the dos window
) to convert the image. Then I just use notepad to move the colors around if needed. Pretty raw way of doing it but it works.
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 1:03 pm
by jobro
Notepad? That means that you can edit the palette as pure text no? Care to post a snippet of how such palette looks as text?
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 9:19 pm
by TulioAdriano
jobro wrote:Notepad? That means that you can edit the palette as pure text no? Care to post a snippet of how such palette looks as text?
Not sure about C but as far as programming goes you can either load binary data or load data in memory. Here is a sample of palette and a tile using the palette, used in one of my demos.
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PaletteStars:
DATAINT $0EEE,$0EEE,$0CCC,$0AAA,$0888,$0666,$0444,$0222
DATAINT $0000,$0ECC,$0EAA,$0E88,$0866,$0844,$0822,$0800
Tile:
DATALONG $88848888
DATALONG $88838888
DATALONG $88525888
DATALONG $85212588
DATALONG $32111234
DATALONG $85212588
DATALONG $88525888
DATALONG $88838878
So, it is pretty straight forward: The palette values are like HTML RGB values for colors, except that you cannot follow each step so instead of "0123456789ABCDEF" I use "02468ACE", like: 0x0E00 is red, 0x00E0 is green, 0x000E is blue and you combine to get the colors like RGB.
Total 512 colors possible (8R x 8G x 8B = 512).
The tile show the number of the entry in the palette, and each number is a dot. Easier than you though, huh? Once you understand those values it is easy to find them in a heximal editor of whatever you are editing. Notepad is also possible but since it only display chars you have to know where you're touching because you cannot write values below 32 (0x20 = blank space).
Questions?
Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 4:15 pm
by TmEE co.(TM)
I made a small program that rips out palette form BMP file and puts it into a file which you can INCLUDE in your ASM code...