[Freeciv-Dev] Re: indexed palettes

[Raimar Falke <i-freeciv-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 01:33:21PM +0000, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Raimar Falke wrote:
> > > I just found out that isotrident and trident tiles.png have a different
> > > number of indexed colours.
> >
> > > This means that graphics made for isotrident will not automatically
> > > work fortrident.
> >
> > Why? The graphic program should cope with this. I.e. transfer graphics
> > from one to the other in RGB mode.
> 
> Well, I am a newbie with gimp, but when I tried to copy&paste Daniel's
> veteran icons from isotrident to trident tilesets, some colours were lost
> in the copying. I noticed that trident had less colours, so I jumped to a
> conclusion and complained - but I might be stuffing the wrong duck here.

And if you convert both to RGB first?

        Raimar

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