Hey guys,
I was just fiddling in DJGPP / Allegro, and decided to try and make a tilemap reading thing (sorry i''m not too hot on terminoligy
). I''d never tried it really before, but I now have a working program that displays my tiles fine... the only problem is, the palette... It''s totally, totally wrong! I have only just started fiddling with allegro, but the problem seems to lie with when loading bitmaps... I have to supply a bitmap, and an RGB palette value; load_bmp(char *filename, RGB *pal).
The filename is no problem, but does anyone know what the hell i put as the RGB value? Yes ok that''s Red Green Blue, but that''s about all I can figure... I tried putting 0, and the pallete comes our horribley wrong (grey is red, blue is grey...). I tried putting other numbers, too, but most gave me a compilation error (i''ll tell you later if necessary, but atm i''m in a hurry
).
So, simply, does anyone know what the best value to put as the RGB value when loading a bitmap, that gives me the proper colours, as opposed to lurid hybrid messes
Cheers all,
Nick - Head Designer, Llamasoft.net
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... In your example, you declare your PALETTE as your_pal, and then use it, but what do you 'do' to your_pal? I can't believe you simply declare it and then pass it as the RGB value, and in fact I tired that, and it didn't work... I tried things like allegro's desktop_pallete too, but my colours are still completely wrong... I am using an 8bit 256 colour bitmap, and I know the palette indexes are being read correctley, but it just comes out wrong... As i said, grey is red, red is green, blue is grey... Also, black is white, white is black, and yet brown is also white...
