Display sprites with palettes

Fou-Lu · Post by **Fou-Lu** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 5:07 am

I want to load 8bit sprites in high/true color modes, but keeping them as 8 bit sprites. That would be used with a new sprite command:

DisplayPaletteSprite(#sprite,x,y,#palette)

The sprite would be displayed using the colors of the palette (which could be a normal palette, created with the palette commands)

I've discussing about that here.
Is this possible?

DoubleDutch · Post by **DoubleDutch** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 12:31 pm

4-bit sprites are also very useful and would be a nice extra...

I think they are drawable using direct-x???

But then would also be useful to have a way of the palette library being able to generate 2, 4 or 8 bit palettes.

-Anthony

Fou-Lu · Post by **Fou-Lu** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 1:20 pm

I agree, 4bit sprites would also be great. 2bit is kind of useless... anyway I want to hear Fred's opinion too!

Where is he!?

Blade · Post by **Blade** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 2:13 pm

Fou-Lu wrote:Where is he!?

2 Options:

- On holiday.

- Improving PB as usual

DoubleDutch · Post by **DoubleDutch** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 3:19 pm

I used to use 2-bit all the time for 3 colour (+ transparency) fonts.

-Anthony

Fou-Lu · Post by **Fou-Lu** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 6:16 pm

Oh.. alright sorry, 2 bit sprites are also useful.

Wait a minute, when did you use 2 bit sprites? Is there another language which use them?

DoubleDutch · Post by **DoubleDutch** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 8:36 pm

They were on the Amiga, also on other consoles

-Anthony

Fou-Lu · Post by **Fou-Lu** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 2:34 am

Where is everybody? I was hopping there was more people interested in that...

dracflamloc · Post by **dracflamloc** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 3:00 am

Could be nice

DoubleDutch · Post by **DoubleDutch** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 2:36 pm

Could?

dont you mean:

Would be nice?

-Anthony

Fou-Lu · Post by **Fou-Lu** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 2:47 am

It WILL be nice. If Fred give us some attention of course... :roll:

Fou-Lu · Post by **Fou-Lu** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 3:59 am

C'mon people! Give your opinion. This is the feature I most want to see in PB, I'm sure I'm not alone!

DoubleDutch · Post by **DoubleDutch** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 7:23 pm

I don't know why people haven't replied to this post! This would be one of the best additions to the sprite library that I can think of...

I guess they don't understand what it is

Fred: Is this "feature" possible/likely?

-Anthony

va!n · Post by **va!n** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 9:01 pm

DoubleDutch wrote:I don't know why people haven't replied to this post! This would be one of the best additions to the sprite library that I can think of...

I guess they don't understand what it is

Fred: Is this "feature" possible/likely?

-Anthony

i think people understand what you mean! and the feature isnt bad! but you can still code your own procedure for doing this

By the way, today 32 bit are nearly a standard. So i dont know why we should discuse about 256 color stuff

By the way i am coding on a new user lib and maybe i will try to add your wished feature! (but it will take time before the lib will be released)

va!n · Post by **va!n** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 9:04 pm

Fou-Lu wrote:I agree, 4bit sprites would also be great...

i dont need 2 or 4 bit sprites! maybe you mean 16/24/32 bit sprites with colors like a 4bit image (also 16 colors?) !! You can still save your image as 4 bit BMP and load it with PB (PB supports loading 4 bit sprites!)