Palette Editors

[XAwful]

Inkworks for Vista? Is it available? Or is there something besides DeepSea that can be used to edit PLAYPALs and COLORMAPs?

[myk]

I haven't tried, but doesn't Inkworks work on DOSBox?

[esselfortium]

XWE can, but it's not particularly good at it. In particular, its generators for damage/pickup/radsuit tints render them way too opaque, causing visibility issues ingame. Personally, I usually just export the lumps and open them in Photoshop as raw images.

[Kappes Buur]

If you want to generate a palette from an image, then BHS's Palette Dump Tool would be ideal.

http://flandre.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=17104

[Mechadon]

esselfortium said:

XWE can, but it's not particularly good at it. In particular, its generators for damage/pickup/radsuit tints render them way too opaque, causing visibility issues ingame. Personally, I usually just export the lumps and open them in Photoshop as raw images.

Yea I had that issue when making the palette for Claus1024. Wagi made a nifty little utility that fixes the damage tints, atleast (it may fix the other tints as well but I don't remember). I use to have it uploaded somewhere but...I lost the link. So this is a good excuse to upload it again.

http://mekworx.phenomer.net/mekastuff/wads/ColorGenie.zip

Anyways, the version of Inkworks I used for Claus1024 worked in WinXP...atleast well enough to do what I needed it to do. Maybe it'll work in Vista/7 too? Earthquake was making a really cool looking palette editor but I haven't seen any updates about it recently. I will probably be using BHS's tool the next time I make a new palette, so definitely give that a try.

[Kappes Buur]

While this post is mostly for information only (the program is only available through registration with the University of Calgary), L-Studio has a nifty Palette Editor
http://algorithmicbotany.org/lstudio/paletteeditor.html

It could provide inspiration for a programmer looking for the next project :-)

[XAwful]

Well, I do lurv me some command programs, so colorgenie or DoomCrap will probably do it, thanks everyone!

[Kappes Buur]

You could try the shareware version of Deepsea, which has some very usable lump editing functions which may be used freely. The restrictions only apply to the map editor.