You need an image editor that gves you an easy way to keep track of the color index of your palettes. =)
-Thiago On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 6:32 PM, John Anderson <corporalmust...@gmail.com> wrote: > yes, I have, unfortunatley that still doesnt mean I can specify where the > colours are placed on even the sprite's palette. For example, I have a > particular sprite with a slightly coloured outline, in the sprite's palette, > entries from 0 - 15 are empty, and the outline is entry 16. I'm not even > sure where any of the other colours are, and that position might change with > an excess of differently coloured sprites on screen, or worse, even > disappear entirely. What I would like to do is have the palette fill from > the bottom, or preferably from a specified index with new palette entries > loaded from .gif files, rather than try and find a close approximate colour > on the existing palette, is this possible to do without changing the surface > implementation in pygame, or even SDL? > > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 4:59 AM, Thiago Chaves <shundr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Have you looked at the palette functions on surfaces? >> >> http://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/surface.html#Surface.get_palette >> >> -Thiago >> >> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 8:56 PM, John Anderson >> <corporalmust...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi, I was wondering if it was possible to force an 8-bit colour sprite >> > to >> > use a very particular set of palette entries, like say, Sprite A uses >> > colour >> > indicies 0 - 16, and Sprite B uses 17 - 32. As it stands, pygame >> > automatically assigns the colours in a sprite to the closest colour on >> > the >> > main palette, meaning that it is very hard to predict which colours are >> > where, and thus makes palette swapping a nightmare, is there any way >> > around >> > this? >> > > >
