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Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 21:24:34 -0300
From: Cristovao Braga <overlord AT directnet DOT com DOT br>
Organization: World Domination Inc.
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To: djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com
Subject: ANNOUNCE: palette manipulation tool
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This is to announce the creation of UNIPAL, a tool aimed to help people
creating games and general purpose gfx programs. It is written with
djgpp/Allegro and I believe it can be useful to many people here.

Unipal's purpose is to quickly and painlessly create an optimal palette
for people working with lots of gfx (i.e. sprites) in an 8bit colour
environment (a game or gfx program with Allegro, Jlib or anything else).

Unipal will then read any number of bitmaps, create a palette which will
suit all of them well, update the gfx to the new palette and save them
under different names - starting with '_' (abc.bmp -> _abc.bmp). Unipal
is smart enough to skip any files which names begin with '_' so that you
won't have to delete them. It can also be called with wildcards so that
you don't have to type file listings.

There are options to suit the image conversion to many needs. You can:
   - Tell it to map any bitmaps solid background to index 0
(transparent)
   - Tell it to use only palette indexes in the range x...y
   - Tell it to change a non black background to black later
   - and other smaller things.

You can download it from my homepage:
   http://www.directnet.com.br/~overlord/

The current version is 1.2 (the first to be released)

It comes with full C source.


Cristovao Barbosa Braga Dalla Costa
overlord AT directnet DOT com DOT br