#Ornery AniPro
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Seems to be becoming a pet peeve. I frequently combine various images for an
animation and spend a lot of time combining the pallettes. One of the things
that eats up a lot of unneccessary time is that when you make all frames in a
flic "one pallette", it usually (but not always) changes the first color
register to some other color than the 0,0,0 black that I always have it set to.
Unfortunately that color is used for the area outside the active window. Since
the color that gets placed there is being used in the animation, I have to do a
lot of juggling to reorganize the pallette to get the outside area black again
without disrupting the animation itself. Surely other people must have had
this problem (frequently, I would think!), since there is apparently no way to
avoid it. If anyone has any tricks up their sleeves that they would like to
share, I'm all ears.
There are some quick tricks to this actually. I do all my palette manipulations
BEFORE mixing. I squeeze images down to a decent percentage of the entire
palette, preassigning them to certain areas (clusters). Then when they get
combined, no conflicts and no 0 register problems. What kinds of images are you
combining? (Flics? Pics? Cels?) -dave
Dave —
I'm combining the pallettes of different frames in a single flic, and I do
everything the same way you describe. I hope you have some "quick tricks" to
tell me about, otherwise I guess this is just another of the many AniPro bugs
that only occur on my system. (Sigh.)
–Stephen
/* I'm combining the pallettes of different frames in a single flic, and I do
everything the same way you describe. I hope you have some "quick tricks" to
tell me about, otherwise I guess this is just another of the many AniPro bugs
that only occur on my system. (Sigh.) */
Nothing too incredible actually. The quickest "fits" I know of involve using
the single palette option or taking a given palette (full cluster), cutting it,
and then pasting it over time to the remaining frames (much like 3DS does on
low palette mode).
Bugs? What kind of bus are you experiencing? -dave