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Erik Sanders
The colors become scrambled because the more sophisticated graphics
programs do not recognize that Paintkit uses only 160 or so different
colors, and even when picking another color off an existing pixel, it
will not maintain that limited palette.
The solution is: before importing the modified pcx file back into
paintkit, color the area(s) where the new decals go white, then import.
This isn't a perfect method in that you'll have to do cleanup work, but
the logos aren't distorted (otherwise, it will pick up some of the colors
from the existing areas because they're not white).
Hope this helps.
Earl
The registers have been set by the paintkit so any
picture with a different palette will look bad.
Btw you can have two palettes containing the same
colors but for the palettes to be *equal* the colors
must be in similar order. This is because when a
palette is set it will be set sequentially starting
with register 0, then register 1, etc.
In 320x200x256 you have 256 registers but each register
consists of three bytes (R G B) where only the six least
significant bits are used in each byte, thus we can
choose colors from (6 bits/bytes * 3 bytes) = 18-bit
palette, ie 262144 different colors.
-- Terje Wold Johansen "I am your inferior superior." Speaking --
-- Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway myself! --
The paintkit uses colors 32-175(inclusive, zero-based) of the
pallette in the file paintkit\ipal.pcx in the Indycar II directory.
If you use this pallette and restrict yourself to these colors, I think
your problems will be solved.
Hope this helps,
Josh.
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Josh DuBois
Carleton College, Northfield, MN
>> Can someone please explain to me how to fix the pallette
>> change problem when I import a logo graphic into the icr2
>> car.pcx. Why are my colors getting scrambled? Is there a .pal
>> file that I need to work with.
>> How about some of you expert car customizers helping me out
>> here.Thanx.
>> Sandman
>Well, the palette is made up of 256 colors.
>Each color has its own register on the video board.
>The picture is made up of numbers and each number
>refers to a register. If a register contains another
>color than that defined in the palette that comes
>with your imported picture the colors will be wrong.
>The registers have been set by the paintkit so any
>picture with a different palette will look bad.
>Btw you can have two palettes containing the same
>colors but for the palettes to be *equal* the colors
>must be in similar order. This is because when a
>palette is set it will be set sequentially starting
>with register 0, then register 1, etc.
>In 320x200x256 you have 256 registers but each register
>consists of three bytes (R G B) where only the six least
>significant bits are used in each byte, thus we can
>choose colors from (6 bits/bytes * 3 bytes) = 18-bit
>palette, ie 262144 different colors.
>-- Terje Wold Johansen "I am your inferior superior." Speaking --
>-- Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway myself! --
Sandman
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>> Can someone please explain to me how to fix the pallette
>>change problem when I import a logo graphic into the icr2
>>car.pcx. Why are my colors getting scrambled? Is there a .pal
>>file that I need to work with.
>The colors become scrambled because the more sophisticated graphics
>programs do not recognize that Paintkit uses only 160 or so different
>colors, and even when picking another color off an existing pixel, it
>will not maintain that limited palette.
Peter
