rec.autos.simulators

>>: How do you know what colors are "forbidden?"
>>:

>>I went through and paint a stock white car with "color swatches" from
>>the palette inside the N2 paintshop.  One color for the start of the
>>color range and one for the last in the range.  Created a strange
>>looking car.

>You dont have to really go through all of that. If you look at an
>exported PCX, you see a strip of the color bars at the bottom. In PSP,
>you go to the "Color" menu and choose "save pallete, with an nascar2
>export loaded. then open the graphic you wanna convert and choose load
>pallete, then do the cut and paste. Photoshop is similar, use the
>"mode" menu, "color table" and "save". My attempts have worked so far,
>but Ive heard others are having trouble, no clue as to why. Note that
>nascar 1 and 2 have differenty paletes

>>I want to paste some graphics on my car and I think I am following all
>>great advice I have gotten but the pasted on stuff looks really
>>screwed up. I am assuming that this is part of the palate problem. I
>>there a work around? How can I paste graphics on a car and have it
>>look correct? (I am using PSP and importing into paintshop) I have
>>tried photostyler, too. Same result.

>You must make sure that the pasted on graphics do not use the
>"forbidden" colors.  I do this by mapping those colors (temporarily)
>to bizarre day glow orange or something.  That way, when the palette
>from the paste up graphics are remapped into the N2 palette, none of
>the forbidden colors are used.  That is if you're not using day glow
>orange in the past up.  Then, of course, you must remap those colors
>back into the proper N2 palette.  Come to think of it, this process
>really is pretty strange!

>Tim Kitchen