Moved from F3 thread: Colour replacing in F25 / F3

[MENTION=5109]Simon[/MENTION] thanx for the explanation

i guess for it to work effectively maintaining gameplay, it wud need to be able to swap the colors in under a 60th of a second.

& regarding the number of colors needed, most retro game sprites were made up of 4 or 16 colors.

I tried this, it seems fine, Please login to see this link.
Press 1 to change megamans color
then press 2 for the second color.
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here is a similar approach using le getRGB
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Press 1,2 or 3 to change the color, CTRL is jump arrows moves the character.

see if this works or we're back to square 1 lol. XD

I am glad this discussion came about, it was very interesting to learn about how Replace Color works. I was always puzzled why it took so long to swap out like 10 colors in animated sprites. I thought the Action just aimed for an index in a palette and swapped it all. However like so many other times it turns out that things that seem so simple can be more complex than you think!

I don't think the loss of Replace Color in Fusion 3 will have much impact though even for pixel art games that play around a lot with palettes. Especially if we can manage and control assets easier in Fusion 3, then dealing with pre-made palette swaps might not be so bad as you'd think.

[MENTION=8318]N64Mario[/MENTION] i can imagine that being a nightmare to see where everything is in the frame editor XD

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[MENTION=8318]N64Mario[/MENTION] i can imagine that being a nightmare to see where everything is in the frame editor XD

HahaXD

@CT: I warn you tho, the glowing armor plates of my main change depending on his health status using color replace... and you guys will have to port this crap <evil laugh>

Fusion 3 importer will not inport everything - missing functions and operations which cannot be automatically ported will be left out and a report will be generated to tell you what didn't come across automatically. As such this sort of porting where the function is missing will rely on you as the user to complete it.

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Yea I think I'm going to miss that old replace color being absent in F3 (since its old tech). But I'll get over it. If RGB Coefficient is a thing in F3 for the effect I would use, I'll be happy with that method if everything else works out.

Just in case, made an update to my Please login to see this link.. includes flash app and executable app. Basically with this, I would have to change all the graphics in my game to pure white (including backgrounds created as active objects), separate the different shades into new objects, and set the colors back at run time with RGB coefficient. That's going to be a lot of work.

This is basically how I'm doing it with my own projects as well. In order to save time though I use the surface object to recolour the sprite as greyscale and then blit them out as individual sprites. Much faster because its automated. But keep in mind you wouldn't want to do this during gameplay. This is more a case for pre-rendering out your sprites and reimporting them into Fusion. It definately saves me time than doing it manually in Photoshop. My hopes is that Fusion 3 has better support for creating a character out of multiple actives.

@Please login to see this link. your post was moved to the F3 thread as this is not the right thread ton ask about F3.
@Please login to see this link. I would have moved yours also but you quoted something here and it wouldn't make sense if moved. If you re-ask your question in the F3 thread I'll answer it there, but don't quote the post from this thread please

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