I have been making alot of palettes lately, might share more, been making 16 colour palettes mostly, but I noticed a distinct lack of 32 colour palettes around so here you are.

no referencing of other palettes or anything, mostly arbitrarily chosen colours ramped and then tweaked, built ontop of a 16 colour palette if I recall, worked on it on and off for a week so far I think, the ramps are placeholders so ignore, or feel free to come up with your own ramps, and ignore the 2 checker colours in the background they are NOT a part of the palette, and yeah this is the palette I've been testing on the forums.

feel free to experiment test and post results here if you like, feel free to use it for anything, giving credit and pm'ing or sharing what you do will also would be appreciated if you decide to use.

*well I'll try getting some multiple palette files here:
  
.gpl (Gimp, Blender, etc.) : W V C
.pal Graphics Gale: W V C

idea for an activity for anyone wanting to show off their skills or get in some practice, and or hopefully having some fun, for the love of crates, heh well it will not exclusively be crates it'll be any type of cube any materiel as long as it is a perfect cube, you could render an ice cube a stone block a crate, cardboard, antique, grungy, steam powered, fantasy, sci fi, modern~ anything you want, it should be good practice for any skill level, here is a quick and simple example I whipped up


my approach was to create the 32x32 one first then both scale it down to 16x16 and upscale to 64x64, so it is practice for refining something higher res with more detail and at the same time making something readable at a lower res

then after they are done, use them as a basis for creating a split height 2 tall texture and making a top variation and sides and you'll notice some of the effects you can achieve the upper half of the double height textures is the upper square is the TOP face and the lower is the sides

I've provided a ZIP, it contains the texture examples, blank templates and an OBJ for anyone who wants to check out and show off the 3D cubes themselves, all cube variants and already UV unwrapped, also a cool thing is that I've scaled the cubes relative to each other in the sense that the pixel size/ratio is exactly the same, so the cubes can looks consistent in comparison to each other, if anyone can't do the 3D part, just pixel the textures and just submit them on their own and I'll be glad to do it when I have time, the way I set it up is incredibly easy to swap texture files, the textures are automatically loaded from the ones in the same folder as the OBJ for anyone who wanted to try loading their textures but wasn't sure, and I'd be glad to collate any finished pieces into this post.

as many sets as you want, but each set should be like this one relatively tied together, thinking of imposing a colour limit, maybe I should have colour limits per scale, 8 colour max for 16x16 16 colour max for 32x32 and 32 colours for 64x64, or actually I think I'd prefer 4 colour 16x 8 colours 32x and 16 colours 64x, or even 8,12,16

thoughts?

the ZIP with the templates and relevant files can be grab here

I'll organize and put more effort into this if there is any enthusiasm, come on guys I challenge you all to try it

any feedback or suggestions? on any factors palette shading outlines readability,

wonder how many of you will recognise him and those of you who do, did I portray him well?

and it'd even be helpful if I get told it looks fit for submission because I'm hesitant at the moment

Ed:oh and ref
Ed II: oh yeah didn't finish the ammo belt

Update:

probably bad practice but did some outer AA on the legs, should i get rid?

just thought I'd share, I partly did it for other's benefit, and to re-cement my own knowledge.this post is relative to top down gameart, 2D, 3D, pixel art or not.
one thing you might notice in 2D games it's not uncommon for them to mix orthographic with perspective ie orthographic environments and perspective on the character sprites.

and to clarify for those who are not aware of what i mean by orthographic and perspective, orthographic is a form of displaying 3D that has no relative compensation for distance to the viewer.
only scaling via zoom, whereas perspective has foreshortening and obeys the perception of distance more closely. left  persp, right ortho.

hopefully the image will be self explanatory, just did some examples of one particular perspective and relativity to the grid, the same applies to the others just different ratios.
I've experimented with 2x1 ratio tiles it has drawbacks and pros, mostly in the speed of map making and just being an interesting and different approach to tiles.

unscaled and uncompressed version of the study-doodling Here also the red dude was whipped up in about 20 minutes so forgive his roughness


I encourage people to discuss or share their own observations, or links to existing posts even, or just screengrabs of games and showing their usage of perspective, could even go into isometric too if anyones inclined, also hope its useful to those who are struggling with or are vague on the subject, Its always useful to have reference

generated a few random 5 colour palettes, picked 2 of them for a 10 colour palette and just doodled freehand.
and i got internet now, like actual plugged in internet, for the first time ever. so figured I'd share, and try participate more.


I challenge/encourage anyone who has the time to try using the same palette  

hopefully i get some community comments/involvement so i can motivate myself to get back into pixeling more, and keep it fun. pixeling in isolation gets kinda boring and isn't very thrilling