[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#9535) ftwl: supporting 8bpp mode

["Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa" <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9535 >

On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Per I. Mathisen wrote:

> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9535 >
>
> The problem here is that themes and other graphics resources may not be in
> 8bpp, or at least not in the same palette.
>
> I basically see three ways to do this:
>   1 - Use a standard palette with a good spread of colours, then match as
> best as we can dynamically.
>   2 - Compile a palette from the colours used, provided that this number
> does not exceed 256. If it does not, this is the optimal solution.
>   3 - Demand that 8bpp mode uses an 8bpp theme that supplies its own
> palette, and it is the theme writer's responsibility to ensure that this
> palette works for the other graphics resources used.

1 and 2 will never look visually as good as 3. 3 is easier to code. So
IMHO 3 wins. For paletted displays, the theme should have the palette.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa