^ PalFX typically applies flat single washes of color to sprites I think BowserKoopa was after something different here.

GarchompMatt said, January 24, 2013, 07:11:29 pm

Dcat said, January 24, 2013, 06:20:44 pm

^ PalFX typically applies flat single washes of color to sprites I think BowserKoopa was after something different here.

No...?
You can get it to tint the colour of the helper, which would be a way of distinguishing them from palette to palette.

But what if you wanted a helper to have exactly different colors? Tinting the color can sometimes make it look similar to the original helper.

It is in the DOCS where most things are. If you're using 1.0 and sffv2, palettes are sprite based. And remappal lets you swap between them whenever you want. (although doing it will turn off palFX so best to use it as a setting rather than anything changing regularly)

So you'd do your character as always. You would then set up 7 palettes JUST for the helper, and use remappal to change between them depending on whatever you like.

Dcat said, January 24, 2013, 05:55:19 pm

This is pretty simple really if you have irfanview and Fighter Factory.

In short, the method here is to just decrease the colors of the helper sprites in irfanview and manually arrange them using fighter Factory's palette editor.

When sorting the colors from your helper sprite using Fighter Factory's palette editor, you want to pick color indexes that aren't in use by your main character sprites; So if colors 1-16 are the colors for your character, then arrange the new palette for the helper sprites starting from color index 17 onward, leaving spots 1-16 blank. Once you've arranged the new palette for the helper sprites save the old helper sprite .PCX with the new colors. Make sure that you save a new .ACT file with the helper colors added to the main character's palette as well.

Then jump back over to Irfanview, load up your newly arranged helper sprite and export the palette to a .PAL file, you can apply this .PAL file to a sprite sheet that holds all of the helper sprites to have them all share the same newly ordered palette and from there save each new individual .PCX, then add them to the character's .SFF file.

On Paintshop Pro, I have changed the order of the palette so the colors start on the top left in Fighter Factory. However, my character is all black. How can I fix this?

And also, my character has multiple helpers, each with different palettes. Should I put them all on one image, then make the image full of helpers have the same palette?

This is why i like people to use proper editing programs to make their palettes.

You're talking about a batch conversion. You can do this in Paint Shop Pro

The steps involved

1).Make sure that the .PNG file has 256 colors in it and you've designated your transparency color in the right position.
2).Load up that .PNG file in Paint Shop Pro and save its palette as something memorable "ryupal"
3).Apply the ryupal to the other images you have yet to add to the .SFF so they'll all have the same colors.
Note: you can cut down on the time it'd take to apply the palette to each image by hand by instead recording a Script and using that to run a Batch process on all the sprites at the same time .

How To do a Batch Palette Application
Open the .PNG file in Paint Shop Pro, then click on File > Script > Start Recording
Now you will begin recording your script (this means that all of the keystrokes and actions you perform will be recorded). Next go to Image > Load Palette and select the "ryupal" you saved before. Make sure the nearest color matching bullet is marked and click Load.
Now that you've recorded the necessary action its time to stop the recording. Go to File > Script > Save Recording and save it as a memorable name "ryupalscript"

Now its time for the Batch part:
Go to File > Batch Process
Then click the Browse button to navigate to the proper folder directory and select all of your un-added character sprites by holding down the SHIFT key
Under Save Options:
-select the filetype to save the new images as .PCX
-select the folder to save them in by clicking the lower Browse button

Once you've got everything set, click Start and sit back as all of your sprites are converted quickly and easily to the same 256 color, shared palette .PCX format, conveniently ready to be added to the .SFF.