Get Sprite Palette

Soule X · Post by **Soule X** » Thu May 14, 2015 9:31 am

I don't know if this is a question or a statement or just a rant, but I noticed when you use the Get Sprite Palette command on a sprite with a default palette it returns -1, which is correct, I know. I feel like it would be useful in certain circumstances if it returned the actual palette instead. If I'm adjusting palettes by increments it doesn't really work. Say the default palette is 5 and I want to bump it up to 6 so I add one. Well now it's going to be 0 instead.

In a weird way I feel like it should work both ways.

Post by **TMC** » Thu May 14, 2015 9:49 am

Use the get sprite default pal command.

Soule X · Post by **Soule X** » Thu May 14, 2015 5:19 pm

Ah. Okay I didn't see that one. That works. It's an extra step but still kind of what I was looking for. I actually went back after I posted and changed the load command to load the actual palette number, but it's good to know for the future.

Post by **Bob the Hamster** » Thu May 14, 2015 5:23 pm

A little wrapper script could make this a lot more convenient to work with:

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script, get current sprite pal, handle, begin
  variable&#40;result&#41;
  result &#58;= get sprite palette&#40;handle&#41;
  if&#40;result == -1&#41; then&#40;
    result &#58;= get sprite default palette&#40;handle&#41;
  &#41;
  exit returning&#40;result&#41;
end

Soule X · Post by **Soule X** » Thu May 14, 2015 6:20 pm

Yes that's exactly what I was looking for. I might not need it again for this project but I'm sure it would come in handy for some games. Maybe consider adding a hard-coded function like Get True Palette or something. I'm not sure if it's usefulness is broad enough to warrant that.