Feature #1085
action color / pure white detection
| Status: | New | Start date: | 2010-07-08 | |
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| Priority: | Normal | Due date: | ||
| Assignee: | - | % Done: | 0% |
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Description
We should, in some way, warn the user about action colours and pure white (0xFFFFFF) when encoding sprites.
Upon encountering such a colour, one of the following actions could be taken
- Remap these colours to 'safe' alternatives.
- Raise an error
- Raise a warning
- Do nothing
This probably needs a parameter or something.
How does grfcodec handle this?
History
#1 Updated by Ammler almost 3 years ago
grfcodec simply does "error"-output the amount of pure white pixels in relation to the total size of the sprite.
"autoremap" can at max be an option
#2 Updated by planetmaker almost 3 years ago
An error should only be rised when the palette is wrong or the gfx is not usable / readable for some reason.
Pure white pixels might be worth a warning, as I don't know a case where they're desired (except in newspaper?). All other colours, including action colours, should not even raise a warning by default as they're perfectly legal colours.
It might be a useful thing to have the possibility to enable an action-colour warning.
Automatic re-mapping is imho out-of-question, except if NML caters for that by extending the syntax concerning inclusion of real sprites which allows the user to set flags like 'no action', 'no CC'.
#3 Updated by Ammler almost 3 years ago
There are still 3 bits free from http://wiki.ttdpatch.net/tiki-index.php?page=RealSprites#compression, maybe those could be used to define, "noaction" and "nocompany" for autoremap?