From: al705@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Edith D Goldstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Dpaint IV questions...
Date: 22 Jan 1993 07:11:26 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: al705@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Edith D Goldstein)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc10.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, knyal@ils.nwu.edu (Jarrett Knyal) says:

>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.
>

Actually, you can get 640 of the 4096 RGB colors in a DPaint4 HAM's palette.

There is a menu item Color/Palette/Arrange (type "P" rather than "p").
This "arranger" gives you 4 rows of 32 colors to select and it cycles from
area 0 to 4.  (4 x 32 = 128 x 5 = 640)  Wonder what you can get with AGA
Ham8 and the upgrade to DPaint?
 
BTW has anyone seen "Brilliance" in action?