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Re: Which color palette is better?
« Reply #30 on: October 07, 2010, 09:58:31 pm »
meh, the right looks way better

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Re: Which color palette is better?
« Reply #31 on: October 08, 2010, 12:03:57 am »
Voted the left.  To me, it makes sense for something transparent to be a light color.
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Re: Which color palette is better?
« Reply #32 on: October 08, 2010, 12:11:57 am »
Why not just have white be transparent?  Then light gray would be white, dark gray would be gray, and black would be black.
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Re: Which color palette is better?
« Reply #33 on: October 08, 2010, 02:06:19 am »
Why not just have white be transparent?  Then light gray would be white, dark gray would be gray, and black would be black.

Why not just have white be transparent? Because then light gray would be white, lol :P

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Re: Which color palette is better?
« Reply #34 on: October 08, 2010, 02:28:05 am »
But then the shades of the colors would still be in order i.e. the lightest color is the lightest and the darkest color is the darkest instead of a middle color.  Also, it would be easier to convert since I think this is how its actually implemented in Pt-Mask().
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Re: Which color palette is better?
« Reply #35 on: October 08, 2010, 03:23:26 am »
I was thinking something like this and get the best of all worlds :D

Of course this might be a bit big, but i think the animating transparency is the way to go.  You could have a flashing light grey maybe, or a rolling light grey by pixel for example
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Re: Which color palette is better?
« Reply #36 on: October 08, 2010, 04:11:07 am »
I was thinking something like this and get the best of all worlds :D

Of course this might be a bit big, but i think the animating transparency is the way to go.  You could have a flashing light grey maybe, or a rolling light grey by pixel for example

Something like that would be nice for editing the individual sprite, but it would be difficult to implement in the filesystem. Unless you have some ideas about how to make it easy and not interfere with other things on the screen.

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Re: Which color palette is better?
« Reply #37 on: October 08, 2010, 04:14:00 am »
I think for the filesystem, transparency isn't necessarily a must for display, and it would probably look best without.  Since the user already knows the 'page' of the filesystem is white, having a different color represent transparency makes it seem like there is actually something there.

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Re: Which color palette is better?
« Reply #38 on: October 08, 2010, 01:46:42 pm »
Voted the left.  To me, it makes sense for something transparent to be a light color.

If this had been taken out of context, I would have thought we were talking politics :D

EDIT: And we're being racist here XD

Why not just have white be transparent?  Then light gray would be white, dark gray would be gray, and black would be black.

That actually sounds like a good idea ... as in "really" white for transparent.

I think for the filesystem, transparency isn't necessarily a must for display, and it would probably look best without.  Since the user already knows the 'page' of the filesystem is white, having a different color represent transparency makes it seem like there is actually something there.

Exactly! The filesystem doesn't need to draw the sprites perfectly. It just gives us a rough idea of which sprite it is. For sprite editing, a rolling/flashing background transparency thing sounds best.
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Re: Which color palette is better?
« Reply #39 on: October 08, 2010, 06:16:51 pm »
Lol nice one Deep Thought x.x, although if someone really said that in a political context it might sound a bit racist :P. I lol'ed, though, at how much different the meaning would be, if taken out of context ;D

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Re: Which color palette is better?
« Reply #40 on: October 08, 2010, 06:50:13 pm »
are you still going to implement both? or which ever one wins?  it's really close though, it'll probably end up being your choice.  ;)

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Re: Which color palette is better?
« Reply #41 on: October 08, 2010, 06:51:23 pm »
Lol nice one Deep Thought x.x, although if someone really said that in a political context it might sound a bit racist :P. I lol'ed, though, at how much different the meaning would be, if taken out of context ;D

@Runer112 how is it progressing btw? :)

Slowly...

are you still going to implement both? or which ever one wins?  it's really close though, it'll probably end up being your choice.  ;)

I've already implemented both, the user could choose which one looks best on a sprite-by-sprite basis.

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Re: Which color palette is better?
« Reply #42 on: October 08, 2010, 06:52:30 pm »
ah, ok, cool.
this is going to great for oncalc spriting

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Re: Which color palette is better?
« Reply #43 on: October 08, 2010, 09:20:45 pm »
are you still going to implement both? or which ever one wins?  it's really close though, it'll probably end up being your choice.  ;)

I've already implemented both, the user could choose which one looks best on a sprite-by-sprite basis.

...and the default choice? :D

ah, ok, cool.
this is going to great for oncalc spriting

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Re: Which color palette is better?
« Reply #44 on: October 08, 2010, 10:18:37 pm »
are you still going to implement both? or which ever one wins?  it's really close though, it'll probably end up being your choice.  ;)

I've already implemented both, the user could choose which one looks best on a sprite-by-sprite basis.

...and the default choice? :D

I have no idea lol