From: 006809c AT iceberg DOT acadiau DOT ca (Andrew Cheyne)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: palette & Allegro
Date: 24 Jul 97 14:02:46 GMT
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Hello..

  I've asked this question before, but perhaps I didn't word it
correctly because I didn't really get the responses I was looking for.

   I am currently developing some sprites for a game I am writing
and am wondering how to manage the palette so that they can
all be shown at the same time as I designed them. How do I get
a constant palette with my sprites? I am creating the sprites in 
POVRay and doing touch up with PAintShop Pro. I have thought of a 
couple of solutions to keep a constant palette between sprites,
but they either seem like a lot of overhead or dont produce the effects
I'm looking for. Someone suggested taking all my sprites and 
pasting them into a true color image in PAintShop and then reducing
the color depth to 256. This works fine to get the sprites using the
same palette and I can even get a palette file from this, but where do
I go from there? Do I have to cut and paste my sprites out of this
one large image to smaller images? If so, will they retain the 
palette I extracted from the larger image?

Thanks,
Andrew

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