Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 16:05:03 +0800 (GMT)
From: Orlando Andico <orly AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
To: Indrek Mandre <indrek AT warp DOT edu DOT ee>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: 24bpptga->8bpp+mypalette+dithering
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On Mon, 26 May 1997, Indrek Mandre wrote:

> 
> Hi!
> 
> I have a problem. I have rendered in povray a lot of tga files, about
> 300-600. I want to use them in my game. I tryed to convert them to 8bpp in
> adobe photoshop. Changed mode to indexed and used system palette and
> difusion dithering. The result was more than I expected. But I have to
> convert more about 299-599 files. And I think it's a waste of time doing
> them in adobe 1by1. Is there any tool that will do it all at once for me.
> I really don't like to click with mouse, command line would be perfect.
> Maybe it's possible in adobe, the problem is new to me.
> 

You can try NetPBM. It's available for UNIX but since it doesn't do any
graphics (strictly file conversion and quantization) it should be
compilable with DJGPP. You can even construct a "standard palette" from
all your TGA files and quantize them, so that they all use one palette to
minimize color flashing stuff.

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