Re: [Adonthell-artwork] Image format and custom coloring

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Alexandre Courbot wrote:

> Of course, this is only a first thought. There may be a better file
> format for this - suggestion are welcome. Also, we have to find a way to
> select the pixels that will be part of such special colors - and a way
> to represent them when no color is applied (grayscale seems fine at
> first sight). Moreover I'm quite busy with the map engine (finally, I'm
> about to get out of the client/server maze!), so finding someone
> motivated to start work on this would be very, very good.
> 
> Opinions?

I like it!
How about this: Artists make the changeable areas in greyscale (which is
easy in most gfx apps and provides the coverter with brightness info for
that area), and then the artists make one extra image of the same size
for each changeable area - these images would be black and white, white
is the changeable area and black is everything else - a mask
essentially.
Would that be good?

        -james

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