Brightness settings vs lighting effects dilemma

Only One In All · Post by **Only One In All** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 3:01 pm

This was originally posted at CP in the Plotscripting thread, but I never really got my question answered.

In order to do lighting effects, I have NPCs that alter the dark, but it first resets the palette with 'reset palette' and then it does the tweak palette command. My brightness settings feature changes the master palette with 'load palette', but when comes the NPCs that alter the brightness with its 'reset palette' command, it automatically reverts back to the default master palette.

Is there any way around this?

camdog · Post by **camdog** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 7:24 pm

Maybe I'm misunderstanding your problem, but... Why not just tweak the palette without resetting it?

Post by **Bob the Hamster** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 7:29 pm

Don't use "reset palette" at all. Use <a href="http://hamsterrepublic.com/ohrrpgce/doc ... ette">load palette</a> instead.

Only One In All · Post by **Only One In All** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 8:29 am

camdog wrote:Maybe I'm misunderstanding your problem, but... Why not just tweak the palette without resetting it?

The problem with tweak palette is if you make all colors -1 and then +1, even though you're back to the same colors the colors are.. different. So since this is a constant continuous effect in my game, the colors will eventually end up being all blended in together. I'm not sure how to exactly explain it, but you can try it yourself. Have one tile do -1 for all colors, and +1 for another tile. Step on them back and forth, back and forth, do it over and over again. You'll see that the colors eventually get all messed up. If this wasn't the case, I could just easily use tweak palette along with tags and I wouldn't have a problem.

James, I don't understand how load palette would help. I want to simultaneously have the screen get darker and at the same time have the ability to use "brightness settings" to make the game brighter without resetting to the default palette. The Mad Cacti addressed whether or not load palette should make the chosen palette the default, or I think maybe he said reset palette shouldn't reset back to the master palette. Something to that extent... he put it on bugzilla: http://gilgamesh.hamsterrepublic.com/cg ... cgi?id=562

Post by **Fortis** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 8:38 am

Can't you store multiple palettes now? Make a bunch of palettes with 2mas and import them, then switch between them.

Mazin · Post by **Mazin** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 8:41 am

So since this is a constant continuous effect in my game, the colors will eventually end up being all blended in together.

I'm not certain, but I should think that this is due to colors values that start at 63 or 0. If you do +1 and -1 on 63 (that's the max value, right?), it'll really just do -1 and it'll end up being 62.

How you might get this to work: store the amount by which the color has been changed in a variable, then every time you change the color again, just reset the palette, increment/decrement the variable if needed, and change all the colors by that amount again.

Only One In All · Post by **Only One In All** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 2:48 am

Well, thanks for all your help regardless guys. Once the programmers make it so reset palette only effects the current default palette though, all my problems will be solved.