>How do people creating a shockwave piece above 8bit color do it?
Set your screen color to 16-bit and publish the movie (presuming you have
16- or 24-bit graphics in the movie).
>What color pallet do I use? (Mac or Windows)
Neither, actually. 16-bit color doesn't use palettes (nor does 24-bit). If
you were using 8-bit color, though, I would recommend the Web 216 palette
for Shockwave for the Web.
With 8-bit color you use a palette. Your 256 slots are pointers to 24-bit
colors--8 bits each for red, green, and blue. Those 3 bytes can have any
value from 0-255. So, in a way, with 8-bit color, you have 16 million
colors, 256 at a time.
With 16-bit color, the two bytes actually contain the color information.
It's usually divided up 5-5-5 with a bit for an alpha channel, or sometimes
with the extra bit used for r, g, or b.
With 24-bit color, of course, you have a full byte for each of the 3 colors.
Make sense?
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