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#Changing a Cel's palette

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#56865From: Judy WellerSep 9, 1993 7:32 AM
How can you make an object in a scene use a specific ramp of colors? I have a block of wood — in a scene the palette colors are scattered through the complete palette. I isolate those colors and build a palette cluster. I now create a cel from the wood which I want to use in another image. I also copy the cluster to the palette of the new image. But how do I make the cel of wood use the new cluster I move to the new palette. In other words if the wood was using color #35 previously and color #35 is now color number #116, how do I make the cel make that change to its palette? Judy
#56877From: charles jamesonSep 9, 1993 8:40 AM
This is what the FIT option is for. I think you want to get up an image with the wood looking OK in the old palette, and then load a new palette – say YES when it asks about "fit to palette". I'm sure these directions are a little imprecise. Mess with it. Chuck Jameson Silver Tongue Software
#56940From: Judy WellerSep 9, 1993 1:42 PM
That is what I thought the FIT option was for too — but the results have been less than wonderful! I am starting to try and fit the palettes by hand and that is a loooonnnnnggggggg painful process :-{ Judy
#56943From: Ingo NeumannSep 9, 1993 1:49 PM
Judy, when you had paste your 'wood cluster' in the new palette and your wood image is now the actual cel, be sure that the ANIM CEL…/OPTIONS/FIT COLOR switch is ON. Then the 'wood cel' will be automaticly displaed and paste in the right colors. Ingo