From: Alexei Levenko <alexei DOT Levenko AT in DOT stud DOT tu-ilmenau DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Allegro 16-bit, using palettes and such
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 11:40:33 +0200
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> I am programming a 3D-Engine in 16-bit color, but am using 256-color
> .bmp files.  I would like to be able to shade the textures, so that they
> appear differently lit from different viewpoints.  So what I need is a
> way to create a palette that contains shades of each color from black to
> that color.  But using 16-bit color, how do I create a palette that I
> can use?
there is no palette in 16-bit color mode

> Basically, how do I shade bitmaps to make them darker/lighter, using an
> array or a palette?
umm, maybe you just convert bitmaps from 8-bit to 16-bit and then work
with these
like if you had
	char bitmap[size]
now you will have
	RGB bitmap[size]
and then do all the lighting and stuff with code as
	bitmap[i].R++;
or whatever

i may be wrong, i am not familiar with allegro