You should do it in the 2.10 version or you will have to wait until the next stable version is released :hourglas:.
Pardon my lackluster skills, but...
Freedom wrote:a cset is 1 line of colors
a palette is 16 lines of csets.there's a lot to what you're trying to do here.
to grab gifs they should first be opened in a paint program and reduced to 16 colors
then once you have grabbed the gif you almost always need to recolor unless it's something like a title screen and then you may want to use it's palette.Here's a trick to recoloring
get the new 2.11b6 that is now available to everyone for testing
put your gif in there
grab the gifs palette in a new level palette in cset 2
put the palette you want to change it to in cset 3
start a screen with that level palette....
go into tiles and click b on every tile of the gif, this converts it to 256 colors
now you can recolor it from the cset 2 to the cset 3 while being able to see exactly what you are doing.
then you can get it back to 16 colors by simply taking a screenshot and grabbing it back into your original quest.
just make sure you change every color, I always seem to forget the black 😉
Yeah, I'm back. I honestly have no idea what the hell this means. I tried following this in ZQuest, I screwed it up.
In the tile pages, if you click b on your tile, then go into edit it will then have the full main palette to work with.
if you go to palettes>levels and scroll down to a new empty one, open it, and click on grab, you can grab the palette from your gif.
if you put that in cset slot 2, and put the cset you want the gif to be in cset 3 you can then compare them as you recolor.
You can reduce the colors by simply clicking on "R" in the grab menu (in 2.11)
Would all this stuff you're talking about be in, say, Alphadawg's tutorial, or one of the other ones?
Probably not, since alpha's tutorial was based on 2.10 and not 2.11.
It's not in any tutorials since the 256 color option was just added.
I have a page on palettes that will give you the basics, but it doesn't cover this.
Working with palettes
It does show how to grab palettes.
dawgs tutorial wasn't based on 2.10, it was based on 184 and 190