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Is there a way to deactivate the transparency color in the openbor cutscenes
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i cant change the pallete colors position in animated gifs photoshop wont let me... And the animation loses more quality when using load indexed colors palette

is there a way to make openbor not show transparency color in cut secenes ?
otherwise black spots will appear during the animation.

 
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fighter factory doesnt seem to open animated gifs...

this happened because ive switched recently to photoshop cc 2014 and the save to web option its a bit diferent i was using the tab (original) instead of (optimized) and the pallete was not showing...

the best option could be to use Jasc Animation Shop 3... but i still havent havent tried this program because i dont know how much it will take me to learn how to work with it...

 
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most animations have about 150/250 frames
exporting to png would takes more time...
ive ended up using a pallete created in photoshop...
the problem i was having was that in the save for web options i though switching to original tab would make the animation images look better... but its the same thing it only takes 256...
 
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There is a way to circumvent this when you use Save for Web though this is a very tedious one, but once it's done, it's worth it (somehow). NOTE: I used CS3 on this tutorial, YMMV.



Making the palette

Choose the frame that has most of the colors then make a palette for that frame using Image>Mode>Indexed Color.

When you're now in the Indexed Color menu, select Local (Perceptual) in Palette, type 256 in Colors and select Custom... in Forced.

Selecting Custom will give you the Forced Colors palette screen, click Load... and select the pal.act in the Data folder. Click OK in all of that and now you got the frame in Indexed mode.

Go to Image>Mode>Color table, this will show the color table screen where you can save your palette to your scene folder or anything convenient (I preferably name the palette file to the name of the scene) and there you have it, the scene palette/act. Now that the easy part is done, the more harder part begins:

Saving the GIF

Save your animated gif via File>Save For Web and Devices. You can see the settings that I have (attached picture), I emphasized the 'Custom' there, since we will now use the scene palette/act that we saved earlier. Don't forget to set the Colors: to 256 and uncheck Transparency and Interlaced.

We then go ahead and choose '>>' which will show a pop up menu, click on Unsorted first, this will now make sure that the palette is not sorted, then go back to '>>' and click Load Color Table... and find your scene palette/act file that we saved earlier, then click Open.

Finally, click on save and save it as the final name of your GIF file, put it on OpenBOR and see that the colors are somewhat preserved. The palette is unjumbled and you can no longer see black spots!



I actually experimented with this beforehand and struggled by it until a moment of clarity came when I realized that the first index color is making the transparency, so I did experimentations and came up with this. Used this on my project's scenes. Hopes this helps people who use Photoshop a lot.

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As above, you can easily circumvent the palette shifting behavior of Photoshop. I don't find it tedious at all because that little bit of front end work means getting yourself a sandwich while Photoshop automates the rest.

What you CAN'T do is willfully move entries around on an existing color table. For this kind of work, much as I love Photoshop, you are probably better off with Fighter Factory.

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Damon Caskey said:
What you CAN'T do is willfully move entries around on an existing color table. For this kind of work, much as I love Photoshop, you are probably better off with Fighter Factory.
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That's the reason for the palette fixing in the beginning, so that the color palette is already edited in the first place. Since you can make your own palette in FF, you can use FF as supplement for the method. Again, whichever works, that's not my problem anyway. It just works for me though and not that I have a problem with that.

Heck, you can even make your scene in AVI, use some other 3rd party program to extract the frames into individual images, find the most colored frame from all the frames you have, do some palette work in FF then export it as an act to be used by PS or a third party software tool and make the gif from there. Resourcefulness is the key here. There's the internet to help you with some of that.
 
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Yeah, I know you can load the palette for that. Its a bit of extra work, but its useful.

until a moment of clarity came when I realized that the first index color is making the transparency
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This works only for .png and .gif. For .PCX, its the last spot.

What you CAN'T do is willfully move entries around on an existing color table. For this kind of work, much as I love Photoshop, you are probably better off with Fighter Factory.
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Indeed. Its the button marked in yellow:
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The button at right from that one invert all colors, but keeps the first and last alpha.
 
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