GraphicsGale help!
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Topic: GraphicsGale help!
Posted By: CrashSymbol
Subject: GraphicsGale help!
Date Posted: 24 January 2013 at 7:30am
Hi all, I've recently started developing a platform game for a university project, and have just started using GraphicsGale to make my sprites and tiles.
I've never used it before and it seems like a nice and simple piece of software, but I seem to have a slight problem and have no idea how to get around it.
Whenever I copy and paste part of an image, the pasted image doesn't keep its colour. They're always given a blue tint and I end up having to manually change colours of the pasted image back to how it was. It keeps the shape perfectly well but some reason it changes the colours of all the pixels and I can't see why that would be useful. Is this normal or has anyone come across this problem before?
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Posted By: SturmgewehrKreuz
Date Posted: 26 January 2013 at 9:05am
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layer transparency, I presume. one you know how to use it, it will be easier for you to pixel. Try disabling layer transparency(default, white). that, or maybe you're using limited palette (say, you have 16-color palette, and the pasted image has,say, 29 colors.). it wont really show up.hope i helped ya. happy pixeling!
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Posted By: CrashSymbol
Date Posted: 26 January 2013 at 12:05pm
Could you please give instructions on how to do that? I don't think it's a problem with the colour palette because I'm trying to paste an image that I made using the same palette.
I also have another question: Is there a way I can have a 2x2 pixel brush? The only square brush options I can see are single pixel and 9x9.
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Posted By: AtskaHeart
Date Posted: 26 January 2013 at 12:30pm
You can create other brushes in Gale. Create a BMP, 32x32 px size, 1 bit color depth (monochrome), and draw your brush (in this case, 4 pixels (2x2)). Under the color table/palette, you will find a button with a menu when you click it. Open your brush/tile folder, save your image there (the 1 bit bmp in which you draw your brush). Once you did it, in that menu click reload pen/tiles.
Your brush will appear along the other official brushes of GraphicsGale.
Regarding your main problem. Maybe you are pasting a piece that has more colors than the color table of the image in which you are pasting your piece. All Frames>Color Depth>24bits (so you can use all the colors in your image).
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Posted By: CrashSymbol
Date Posted: 26 January 2013 at 2:16pm
I've created the bitmap but where do I save it? The help documentation says this:
Reload Pen/Tile
Reloads pens and tiles user made.
Pens and tiles must be BMP file, and must be placed in the folder named "pen" in the following folder.
WindowsXP: C:\Documents and Settings\(Windows user name)\Application Data\Humanbalance\GraphicsGale
WindowsVista: Desktop->(Windows user name)->AppData->Roaming->Humanbalance->GraphicsGale
Windows98: C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Humanbalance\GraphicsGale
Besides, the BMP must be a monochrome(1bit), the size of a pen must be 32x32, and the size of a tile must be 16x16.
In a pen, white area will put a color in the canvas. In a tile, white area will be replaced with the first color, and black area will be replaced with the second color.
I'm using Windows 7, so I've tried to save it in C:\Program Files (x86)\GraphicsGale\pen, and when I click Reload Pen/Tile it still doesn't appear. Should I be saving it in a different place?
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Posted By: AtskaHeart
Date Posted: 26 January 2013 at 3:41pm
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Make sure size is 32x32 and color depth is 1bit
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Posted By: CrashSymbol
Date Posted: 26 January 2013 at 4:47pm
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It definitely is. Is there anywhere else I could put the pen folder? It's just not working...
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Posted By: AtskaHeart
Date Posted: 26 January 2013 at 4:56pm
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It must be in the folder that appears when you click "Open Pen/Tile folder". In my case, it's not the folder where the exe of GG is located (I guess it's the same for all, but not sure).
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Posted By: SturmgewehrKreuz
Date Posted: 26 January 2013 at 9:34pm
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Originally posted by CrashSymbol
Could you please give instructions on how to do that? I don't think it's a problem with the colour palette because I'm trying to paste an image that I made using the same palette.
I also have another question: Is there a way I can have a 2x2 pixel brush? The only square brush options I can see are single pixel and 9x9.
you must first enable layers, by clicking view>layers. then if you see the layer window, click on the button with three dot in it. uncheck the "transparent" box. there you go.
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Posted By: CrashSymbol
Date Posted: 27 January 2013 at 7:07am
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Originally posted by AtskaHeart
It must be in the folder that appears when you click "Open Pen/Tile folder". In my case, it's not the folder where the exe of GG is located (I guess it's the same for all, but not sure).
Thanks for all your replies so far! I've fixed my pasting problem; I found out that it was actually the palette I was using that was the problem. Even though I'd selected 15bit colours I probably still managed to use colours that weren't within that range. When I pasted the object into a 24bit colour image it worked fine. *Face-palm*
However I'm still want to get this new brush working. Where is this "Open Pen/Tile folder" button? The only one I can see is "Reload Pen/Tile".
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Posted By: CrashSymbol
Date Posted: 27 January 2013 at 7:38am
Finally fixed it! I had to add it to
C:\Users\*NAME*\AppData\Local\Humanbalance\GraphicsGale\pen
The AppData folder is hidden by default so I had to set Windows to show all hidden folders. Finally I can get on with some serious spriting!
Thanks for all your help!
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Posted By: AtskaHeart
Date Posted: 27 January 2013 at 7:39am
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In the same menu you see Reload Pen/Tile you will find the Open Pen/tile folder. It must be there :/.
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