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- From: knyal@ils.nwu.edu (Jarrett Knyal)
- Subject: Re: Dpaint IV questions...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.182556.20140@ils.nwu.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:25:56 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan20.152832.22376@osf.org> rnollman@osf.org () writes:
- >I have two questions about using DPAINT.
- >
- >Here is where I had a problem. Each HAM file loaded into the frame
- >fine. The color was perfect. However, I did not go back and check
- >the previous frames. When I was done, I ran the animation. Only the
- >colors on the last frame loaded were correct. The colors on the other
- >frames were all screwed up. The palette somehow had been altered.
- >The correctly colored frame was all browns and grays. The other
- >frames had blues, greens, yellows, and reds in them, but the strange
- >thing was that these "extra" colors were not present in the palettes.
- >I have no idea where they came from. Is the problem in the
- >digitizing, conversion, or with DPAINT's handling of external
- >palettes? I tried saving the palette for the correct frame in DPAINT
- >and loading the saved palette into the DCTV conversion module. It had
- >no effect.
-
- when you convert you have to have the colors in the palette locked. Calling up
- a palette won't do anything unless you lock all the colors. When the colors
- are locked all the frames you convert will adhere to the palette. Trust me, I
- went through the same stuff you did.
-
- One thing that will save you some time is to use REND24. Its a shareware
- program that can automate your converting as long as you're just converting and
- not tweaking the settings of your frames (sharpness, etc...). Digitize and
- save in 24bit IFF format from DCTV with the frame #'s (frame001, frame002,
- etc...). REND 24 will automatically take the frames and convert to any format
- you want (from 2 colors to HAM to AGA to DCTV) and can automatically put the
- ANIM together for you. Its very nice and you can go on to do other things with
- your time. You can find REND24 on many BBS and ftp sites. The latest version
- is 104i (I think).
-
-
- >
- >I know there had got to be a way to do this.
- >
- >2. I may be really dense, but I could not figure out how I could set up
- >a palette of 4096 colors. The most that DPAINT IV seems to allow is
- >256 colors. The palette seems to only have 256 spots for colors (16
- >squares in each "subpalette" x 16 subpalettes (from a to p). Where can I
- >store the rest of the 4096 colors?
-
- DPaint4 only does a pseudo-HAM. You only get 256 colors, apparently EA thinks
- we don't make many pictures with more then that.
-
- hope all this helps ya!!
-
- JOSHUA TSUI
- INSTITUTE FOR THE LEARNING SCIENCES.
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