[CF List] png images

[Norbert Irmer]

Mark Wedel wrote:
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      > Clearly, I'm biased on the subject, because I prefer
     
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      > to draw without color restrictions.  And while it may
     
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      > take more skill to do a good job on low-color image,
     
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      > I believe that well-done high color images can look
     
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      > noticably better than ones with the existing colorset.
     
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       Certainly it is easier to do anything if there is no restrictions.  But my own
     
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      feeling is that why break something that doesn't need to be broken.  Someone
     
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      actually mentioned that he thought it worked better for the images to be a
     
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      little more iconic than photo realistic.  And I think most people will agree
     
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      that even with the limited color set used for the png's, they still look very
     
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      nice.
     
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I think it would do no harm to allow the number of colors to be unlimited,

Since you can setup a true color palette even on a 8 bit display, for example
by using 3 bits for red, 3 bits for green, and 2 bits for blue.

(I did this a few years ago when using a self written opengl renderer on an old
sun workstation with 8 bit display, and the results were quite acceptable)

Then the game would still still be playable on old 8 bit displays, and the
artists have any freedom they want.