True colour...

Lexus Alyus · Post by **Lexus Alyus** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 22:56

I'm intrigued to know how well the true colour support is in GZDoom. ATM, is it just smoother lighting and fog or can we actually import textures with pallets that have colours outside the Doom pallet? Are we still restricted to the Doom pallet?

If we are still restricted then it would be mighty cool to remove this restriction

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Post by **Graf Zahl** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 23:12

You can import any 8 bit PNG. The engine will use its real palette. Since the textures are stored as true color internally there is no need to remap the colors - except when Boom-style colormaps are used. In that case I have no choice.

chaoscentral · Post by **chaoscentral** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 0:47

how would I go about making a png with its own pallet? every time i try to import a png into xwe it some how gets messed up color wise... and in doombuilder it turns green same in GZDoom

Nuxius · Post by **Nuxius** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 1:04

You should use "Load (raw data)" instead of "Load".

Also make sure you have the latest beta (8/21/05):

http://ca.geocities.com/xwe@rogers.com/xwe_beta.zip

chaoscentral · Post by **chaoscentral** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 2:01

yea I got it to work shortly after... if i go into photoshop and save as an interlaced png, it doesnt screw it up.... nothing like cyan in doom...

Deathsong12 · Post by **Deathsong12** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 5:58

Does this mean that, In GZDoom, we could use sprites without having to convert them to the Doom or Hexen pallette?

BetaSword · Post by **BetaSword** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 6:27

Yep. I just figured out how to do that myself, and it's rather helpful

Post by **Enjay** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 9:19

I'm sure this has been answered somewhere else, but if we are importing PNG sprites (ie sprites that are not in the Doom graphic format) what's the best/easiest way to specify offsets for those sprites?

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 9:27

Search for 'setpng' on the ZDoom forum. That's a little tool Randy wrote to do exactly this. I think I'll host it here in the downloads section because searching the forum for something like that is rather tedious.

EDIT: Done. Get it from the downloads page.

Post by **Enjay** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 16:21

OK, thanks. I'll check it when I get home. I assume it's a command line/parameters type thing rather than a GUI?

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 16:21

Of course. As it should.

Deathsong12 · Post by **Deathsong12** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 23:05

Can't we just set the offsets in XWE? I sure hope so...
Or, failing that, can we set the offsets while they are still in .BMP format and THEN convert them?

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 23:47

No and no.

1. because XWE doesn't support it
2. because BMP is incapable of storing this information. But why do you need BMP? Does your graphics software not support PNG?

AFADoomer · Post by **AFADoomer** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 23:51

Does anyone know of a tool to mass-convert .bmps to .pngs?

A command line tool that I could write a batch file with would be awesome.

NiGHTMARE · Post by **NiGHTMARE** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 23:54

Paintshop Pro (and I'd assume Photoshop) can do mass converts.