From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
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Subject: Re: palette & Allegro
Date: 27 Jul 1997 05:32:50 GMT
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Wisher (wisher AT ms6 DOT hinet DOT net) writes:
> <"George Kinney" <goober AT mail DOT net>>:
>>I think I know what you are talking about.  You want to make sure 
>>all of the sprites are using the same palette, right?
>>
>>The easiest way to do this is to take all of them, and paste them onto
>>a single image.  Then dither down the resulting image to the desired
>>palette size. (This way you will get a palette that is closer to 
>>optimal for all of them)
>>
>>Then you can load up the big file into grabber, and pick it apart into
>>the original sprites, or you can do this with PSP too.
> 
> Forgive my ignorance. 
> What do you mean by 'PSP'? Is it a program that helps you cut out
> sprites from a big picture? If so, where can I find it?

Paint shop pro. It's very good, easy to use, and you can download it. Do a
web search for paintshop pro.
It does all of that described. I use it all the time for making sprites
with a comon palette, and other stuff. It also displays those TIF files
Povray produces a lot better than Povray itself does on 256-color video modes.

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