4-Bit colour not producing correct palette if more than 16 unique colours

[dave18]

I think this is a feature request rather than a bug but I was hoping that when selecting -colors-4bit it would still produce a palette where there are more than 16 unique colours by creating the necessary entries in offset banks and setting the map attribute appropriately. I thought that -pal-full would do this but maybe I misunderstand what this parameter is supposed to do as it doesn't produce the correct colours. Thanks for what you've done so far though, this is a great tool.

[benbaker76]

You might want to take a look at Crunchy to pre-process your images. The main issue is there's no documentation at the moment. Here's an example layout file.

So command line for this example is Crunchy.exe -layout SpriteSheet.ini

[General]
SourceDirectory=.
DestinationDirectory=
OutputFileName=SpritesGame4Bit.bmp
OutputSize=128,256
PaletteFileName=
TransparentIndex=0
SwapMagentaWithTransparentIndex=False
SortSizes=False
SortColors=False
Quantize=False
AddPaletteOffset=False
CreateCombinedImage=True
MaxPaletteCount=16
AutoPosition=True

[Image0]
Name=SpritesBlanking.bmp
Position=0,0
PaletteSlot=-1
[Image1]
Name=SpriteExplode1Pal0.bmp
Position=0,16
PaletteSlot=0
[Image2]
Name=SpriteExplode2Pal1.bmp
Position=96,16
PaletteSlot=1
[Image3]
Name=EnemyTurretNormal.bmp
Position=64,32
PaletteSlot=2
[Image4]
Name=EnemyTurretHurt.bmp
Position=0,48
PaletteSlot=3
[Image5]
Name=EnemyShocker.bmp
Position=64,48
PaletteSlot=4
[Image6]
Name=EnemyDrelb.bmp
Position=0,64
PaletteSlot=6
[Image7]
Name=EnemySqueltcher.bmp
Position=0,80
PaletteSlot=7
[Image8]
Name=EnemyTurretHard.bmp
Position=0,96
PaletteSlot=-1
[Image9]
Name=EnemyTurretDestructable.bmp
Position=64,96
PaletteSlot=-1
[Image10]
Name=EnemyTurretSideShot.bmp
Position=0,112
PaletteSlot=-1
[Image11]
Name=EnemyPacman.bmp
Position=64,112
PaletteSlot=-1
[Image12]
Name=EnemyLaser.bmp
Position=0,128
PaletteSlot=-1
[Image13]
Name=BoostPad.bmp
Position=64,128
PaletteSlot=-1
[Image14]
Name=Fuze.bmp
Position=0,144
PaletteSlot=-1
[Image15]
Name=EnemyLaserEnd.bmp
Position=0,160
PaletteSlot=-1
[Image16]
Name=ElectricPuff.bmp
Position=64,160
PaletteSlot=-1
[Image17]
Name=EnemyBomb.bmp
Position=0,176
PaletteSlot=-1
[Image18]
Name=Door.bmp
Position=96,208
PaletteSlot=13
[Image19]
Name=EnemyOtto.bmp
Position=32,208
PaletteSlot=-1
[Image20]
Name=EnemyGurdling.bmp
Position=64,176
PaletteSlot=5
[Image21]
Name=EnemyDrelbShooter.bmp
Position=0,192
PaletteSlot=-1
[Image22]
Name=EnemyZombie.bmp
Position=64,192
PaletteSlot=-1
[Image23]
Name=SpritesGeneral.bmp
Position=0,224
PaletteSlot=8

In the example above it will output the file SpritesGame4Bit.bmp which you can then run through Gfx2Next.