Why didn't the Keen games utilize their palette better?
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Why didn't the Keen games utilize their palette better?
Often in 16 color games, you'll see "dark gray" being used to substitute a darker shade than the darker shades of the primary colors.
The problem is, this doesn't really look like "shading", because the dark gray color is too similar in lightness as the darker shades of colors.
What I want to know is, why didn't the utilize the 16 palette better by making "dark gray" slightly DARKER than all the darker shades of the main colors.
It's a little hard to explain this, but take a look at this picture of a Vorticon:
The gray looks like crap. It doesn't shade the red effectively, because it's too similar (if not the same) in lightness.
Does anyone else feel the same way?
The problem is, this doesn't really look like "shading", because the dark gray color is too similar in lightness as the darker shades of colors.
What I want to know is, why didn't the utilize the 16 palette better by making "dark gray" slightly DARKER than all the darker shades of the main colors.
It's a little hard to explain this, but take a look at this picture of a Vorticon:
The gray looks like crap. It doesn't shade the red effectively, because it's too similar (if not the same) in lightness.
Does anyone else feel the same way?
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I've actually noticed the same thing, although it never really occurred to me that they should have simply made it darker in the palette. I tend to run into this problem while modding, when I want to use dark gray as an even darker color than the dark blue or red or whatever and find that it looks ugly when I try that.
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@guynietoren You have used another shade of red which is not being found on the standard 16 color palette. This how it would properly look.
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Ah yeah... I was getting lazy and just used the color from the MSPaint default colors instead of the red from the image. Wish I could modify what the default ones are.KosmynC64 wrote:@guynietoren You have used another shade of red which is not being found on the standard 16 color palette. This how it would properly look.
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lol... yeah was about to suggest Win3.1.Paramultart wrote:Are there any good pixel editing programs that have convenient "auto-dither" features? I find myself having to boot up Windows 3.1 in order to use a proper airbrush, and it's fill tool allows you to fill in areas that are 25% 50% or 75% dithered.
So yeah... something like that.
I'm afraid if I find a copy I'll need a dos emulator to run windows 3.1 to run paint.
I remember playing with the dither tool on that. It had 3 color bars on the left to slide to the desired color value and it showed the color in the box on the right.
The old one is called pbrush.exe instead of mspaint.exe