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Athey — How to make 16 Color Image
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Published: 2009-04-01 17:50:48 +0000 UTC; Views: 5266; Favourites: 15; Downloads: 188
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Quick and dirty tut or photoshop, instructing how to make your image a specific number of colors.This is used in game texture optimization.
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This came in handy for me recently; I'd always been using that terrible Image -> Adjustments -> Posterize function (and then messing with other adjustments to fix the colors) to reduce the palette, when this does it perfectly the first time.
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thanks, it looks easy explained this way (especially for forcing colors)
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Thank you, thank you, thank you...I've been trying to figure out how to do this without loosing much image quality 
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wow! you taught me something (again) today! Very useful actually, You can do more the n16?
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You can set the number to anything. 16 just compresses in our proprietary texture converter software best and makes the files very small.
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AH! Lets say i put it to two, would it set to two colors (Lets say Pink and yellow) ?
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It'll pick the two most dominate colors, but you can go in and specify exactly which two colors you want to use by going into the Custom pallet window.
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You forgot to add that the first colour is the transparency colour
Or... well... that's how it works with us
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We use alpha channels if we have transparency, and use this 1st party proprietary program called Optipix to compress it properly so the engine reads it.
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Oh cool
We can only use a couple of alpha maps per game because of the size of them 
Optipix - Can anyone get a hold of that? If so, I might have to ask at work about it, if we could use something like that, it'd make life so much easier
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Like I said, Optipix is a 1st party proprietary software - it's owned by sony and written for the PS2, & PSP
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Ah, sorry, I was having a thick day
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