CompuServe Thread

Does anyone out there really understand how the WBPattern stuff works in 3.0? Here's my tale… I am trying to put some fairly neat (well, I think so) pictures up on the Workbench background. I had been using Nickprefs on my 2000 for this. The big deal is, what I would do is use (say) a 16 color workbench (not too bad with a 68030). Using ADPro I would lock the first four colors into the standard workbench colors, then let ADpro pick the next 12. With the right dithering, this would look pretty snazzy. BTW, I am trying to use scanned pix with a lot of colors, or perhaps some delicate flesh tones. ANYHOO, I figured with a 256 color WB, I'd be in hog heaven. Not quite so. It seems like WB is screwing around something ferocious with my colors. Hmmmm, well, I can deal with this (he sez). I'll just grab the workbench screen, and save its palette to use with my pix. After all, ADPro is real good at getting a reasonable picture in any palette you like. So I grab a 256 color workbench, and re-render using its palette. I thence re-load my picture and… GARBAGE. Looks terrible, like a bad 16 color job. 🙁 OK, so the questions… How is WB re-mapping the colors? Sometimes this looks OK, other times it looks like hell. How can I force WB to use my palette? Does anybody have anything that can read + write palette presets under 3.0? (I guess the 2.1 system of using an IFF palette was too easy for us to work with 🙁 ) How many colors does the WB re-map my picture too? Is there any chance of a 256 color capable Nickprefs? (My preferred solution, BTW).