My Western Palette Adventures

[ttk]

Okay, so I'm new at this whole thing, but I spent a lot of time looking at other palettes and learning some of the stuff behind it.  I want to make a 32 color palette for a western game that I'm working on.

Any and all criticism is welcome!

Here's attempt #1


I know I have way too many browns right now and probably too many darks.  For my next steps I want to see if I can merge some colors and also add some more greens as well as some brighter colors like some pinks/blush colors.  Lots to improve upon, but I wanted to get my progress out there so I could get advice as well as push myself to keep working on it.

One question, how do you guys do the palette swap stuff with other images/game screens?  Does it require manually selecting which color replaces what, or does it work automatically?  What's the best way to do it in, say, Grafx2?

[MysteryMeat]

Aseprite has an option to do that automatically so I usually use that. Aseprite is solid stuff overall really

[DawnBringer]

GrafX2:

If you only need to update/replace one or a few colors then do it by hand with the "Replace col"-tool (right-click floodfill)

Basic remapping is done with the "Copy to other page" tool (right-click page button) and select "Palette and remap". It will copy the current palette to the spare-page and redraw the graphics.
If you just want to copy a palette without remapping, use the "Palette only" option.

[ttk]

I'll have to check out Asesprite!

DB, your palette tool is amazing, but I don't "get" all of it just yet.  Do you have something that walks through each component of the chart, what it shows, and what we should be looking for?  I'd find that incredibly helpful!

[DawnBringer]

Well, there is some basic info here: http://goto.glocalnet.net/axe/dtb12/#pal_alz_analyze_img

Note the white dot on the small palette, it indicates a duplicate color.

There's a much improved version of the script (and Toolbox) that isn't officially released yet...this is what it produces for your palette:

[ttk]

Thanks for that, DawnBringer.

I'm wondering if maybe I'm going about this backwards.  I'm still not totally sure how I should approach colors, so I may take a few steps back and try making some ramps and things to get a better understanding.

Here's my latest update, anyway:

[ttk]

Okay, started (mostly) from scratch, keeping a few of the base colors I liked before.



Analysis:



Does anything stand out as poor/missing?  What should I look out for especially?

[ttk]

blarrrrrrrg I suck, I just want to pay somebody to do it for me 

[PixelPiledriver]

blarrrrrrrg I suck, I just want to pay somebody to do it for me 

You could but naw you're fine.

You seem to have gathered all the ingredients for a cake.
And you've been re arranging them on the counter top without opening the packages.
While that's something to do, you can only guess at the results.
Bake the cake and see what it takes like.
Then decide how to adjust the ingredients.

[ttk]

Okay, okay, I'll bear down and move forward...

Here's my palette for now.  Did a couple quick tests and they look okay so far... going to try some palette swaps on SNES game screens next.  If anybody wants to do some swaps with this one, feel free, it would help me a lot