RE: [Algorithms] 256 colour palette

[Brian M. <bma...@ra...>]

	One trick if you are using a palette and generating shades in order to
light the graphics is to use human assistance. For Privateer 2 a piece of
code did an initial color match to try get the nearest color from the
palette for that color at that intensity. The results from this we're that
great though. What I did next was to save this shade table out as a bitmap.
This let you see what the ramps for each color. Then came the clever bit. I
got the texture artist, Phil, to touch up the shade table bitmap to produce
shades that were better to him. The results weren't the correct shades - but
the final output looked much better. Phil didn't mind doing the table
either - to him being able to see how his textures were mangled was great.
	All that matters with graphics is getting the effect you want.
-Brian.