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mulTIColor by Rift
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added on the 2023-10-03 20:52:33 by decca  |
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the future is multicolor!!!111
Hi Decca, sag mal, hast du eigentlich noch Kontakt zu Black & ?
I thought about writing something that did similar, but never finished anything. Yours seems way better than I would have gotten. 🙂
Interesting! I thought the palette of these fantasy computers were fixed for some reason. Probably through watching too many lovebyte prods. The “change some colors every scanline” to approximate an aroginal pixture is a huge rabbit hole. I was down it for a year trying all kinds of things. Getting a pleasant looking vertical continuity from one scanline to the next being what bugged me the most. Would be cool to see some elaboration on how it is done here.
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I thought about writing something that did similar, but never finished anything. Yours seems way better than I would have gotten. 🙂
To be honest, we had this lying around for almost 2 years to mature, somehow. But the right opportunity to release it took some time/a train. 😇
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Interesting! I thought the palette of these fantasy computers were fixed for some reason. Probably through watching too many lovebyte prods. The “change some colors every scanline” to approximate an aroginal pixture is a huge rabbit hole. I was down it for a year trying all kinds of things. Getting a pleasant looking vertical continuity from one scanline to the next being what bugged me the most. Would be cool to see some elaboration on how it is done here.
There's two things here, first we separate the image into an image per line, and use imagemagick (or similar, the tool lets you choose from a few options) to compress that line into 31 colours, and then it saves the palette per line and pixels into the generated code.
The tic80 side of the tool is taking that data, using the BDR(l) function to change the palette of both the background vbank (16 colours) and foreground (15 and a transparent colour) per line. I can't remember doing anything clever with the colour choice here, just put the first 16 into the background etc, and then set all the 0-15 pixels in vbank(0) and 16-30 in vbank(1) from the data block. It's not fast, but you can do some memcpy tricks to speed it up if you want something moving. The tic80 allowing you to set every colour to a RGB888 per scanline is a huge advantage over the pico8's "choose 16 of 32 possible colours" here, as is the 31 colours per scanline.
If you have a play with mulTIColor you'll see this is better for some images and not others, anything with a smooth horizontal fade or lots of very different colours won't have great results, with odd artifacts (like tobach's bright blue tshirt having a small horizontal bar on it in the screenshot) being introduced.
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It has been used extensively in Train to Lichthaus by RiFT for displaying graphics and converting textures.
Its written in Python and runs on a variety of platforms.
For further information read the info or the readme-file.