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Offline Fry_Day

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256 Color in the interface up to 16,7 mio
Just to disabuse you fellows, PCX files DO support 24-bit colors. It's just that FS doesn't support loading 24-bit PCXes.
If someone wants to change that, it's pretty simple, though.
24-bit PCXes store first all the red values of pixels, then all the green values, and then (surprise) the blue values. Actually, it's just like 3 8-bit PCXes one after teh other, except that there's only a header in the beginning, and there's no palette at all. You can tell if it's a 24-bit image in two ways by the header. Firstly is BPP, which should be 3, and as a failsafe, NPlanes should be set to 3 also. After decompression you should have something like three arrays, say, red[], green[], blue[], and then you should do something like image= rgb(red,green,blue);

 
256 Color in the interface up to 16,7 mio
i'djust like to add that whatever reducer you use there is obviously a noticable drop in quality from 16m to 256 colours, especially with a large range of different hues.  Everyone should use "bright" to convert down

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It will convert 16m to 256 pcx files and is MUCH better than photoshop or paint shop pro.
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Offline Bobboau

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256 Color in the interface up to 16,7 mio
that is correct! :nod:
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Offline Sesquipedalian

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256 Color in the interface up to 16,7 mio
But not better than Corel Photopaint (see above). ;)

Still, for those who use one of those... other... programs, do try out Bright.

Oh yeah, Fry_day, thanks, we know PCX can do 24-bit (or at least, I do).  :)  The issue is whether it is really worthwhile to up FS2 to 24-bit, when a good graphics program can reduce the pallettes so well.
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256 Color in the interface up to 16,7 mio
i doubt very much that photo paint is better than bright.
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