From: G DOT DegliEsposti AT ads DOT it
To: dcyang AT uclink4 DOT berkeley DOT edu
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 11:46:46 +0200
Subject: Re: allegro - sprites and the data file
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>i guess i need to know how to make all the sprites use the same
>palette, and not just the same colors... and also, my sprites
right today I downloaded a utility I found on the Allegro web page.
I still have not looked at it, so I can't say if it exactly fits
your need. This is the url:

  http://www.step.sk/marian/fixpal.htm

>currently display as an entire box - the docs (yes, i've read them
>:-))

Good choice! :-)

>indicate that masked areas are to be of color 0 in the index.
>does this mean that i should put some random color i never intend to
>use in my program into the 0 position, and color in the masked areas
>with it?

Exactly. The most used color for index 0 is black, but you'd better
use another one. If you use bright magenta you will have some
similarities with true color images (for which allegro uses that color
as transparent).
>obvious i have little idea what i am talking about, but i'd like to
>think that that's because i just started fooling around with allegro a
>few days ago. :-)  i suspect i'm doing this whole palette/sprite
>editing thing the wrong way, so if someone can tell me a better way to
>do it, i'd really appreciate it.  thanks!

Have a look at the Allegro homepage (www.talula.demon.co.uk/allegro IIRC),
there are a lot of links to utilities to edit sprites and palettes.

ciao
  Giacomo