On 14 Jun 2012, at 11:40, Simon Owen wrote: >> What I really could do with is a utility (preferably with a palette >> editor) for drawing graphics (tiles, sprites) that runs on Windows and >> spits out either DEFBs or binary files that I can INCBIN. Does such a >> thing exist? > > I mainly use Paint Shop Pro 7 for most SAM image editing, with a .pal file > loaded containing the 128 SAM colours. I just draw sprites on a big image, > keeping to a grid spacing, and making sure I stay within the 16-colour limit > (there's a colour counting option). > > My development is usually split between Windows and Mac, and this is one area > I've struggled to make equivalent. The image editors I'm using (Pixelmator > and Acorn) don't support working directly with palettised images, and just > convert them to RGB for editing. So I'm generally limited to making only > small changes, and hoping I stay within the colour limit.
I recently discovered "Pixen", which is designed for just that sort of thing. Mac OS only, though. To get those images onto the Sam, I (like everybody else, apparently) wrote a script which reads image files and outputs in various formats. Mine's in Python. Andrew
