Re: [AL] 256 colours bitmaps

[James A. <ja...@ar...>]

> > Hello, I am making a little projectile sim, with some graphics.
> >
> > I have rendered  some frames of a cannon shooting and a cannon ball in
> > pov-ray  32 bit + alpha   in tga format.  I would like to convert these to
> > 256 colours  but still retain the first 16 colours of the standard
> > palette. And include a palette inside an allegro datafile. And also keep
> > the areas with nothing in them transparent.
> >
> > Anyone have any ideas on how to do this easlily ? Or would 16 bit colours
> > be as fast ?

The Smacker (www.smacker.com) converts a true-colour image into a 256-colour (or
less) image with impressive results.

You could try what you're doing in 16-bit. It won't be as fast as 8-bit, but it
might just be fast enough. What I usually do is start to write a program in
16-bit colour and then drop down to a palettised display if and when it's
necessary.


James Arthur  ja...@ar...
http://www.arfa.clara.net/james/