Pedipal - GIMP plugin for converting images to Pedia-compatible palette

[tylor]

Unpack this file to your GIMP folder, usually %UserProfile%/.gimp-2.8 on Windows.

It contains script itself and a reference palette, which is a palette where mandatory Bootypedia colors are in place, and other slots are filled with #B00B15

When you run Gimp, there will be "Make pedia-compatible" option in Images menu, and it does just that with current image. It will ask you for reference palette and filler color, but they are set right by default, so you can just press OK.

Internally it does pretty much what Meridian describes in this https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,4957.msg72548.html#msg72548 post.

UPDATE: 1.0.1 version. Fixed couple of bugs, found thanks to Escavel and Solaris Scorch. One bug was that first color in reference palette was wrong, other was that script failed when there were too few colors in image. Both are fixed

[Carfax]

Oh man this is great. I was just starting to do the same but thankfully checked the forum before.

Regards
Carfax

[Solarius Scorch]

Can you please specify what steps are automated exactly? All of them?

[tylor]

Steps 2-8. So, you only have to cut image to right size, rest script will do itself.

PS. If you want it to do more, ask, I can add other stuff. Like auto-resizing, saving in specific place in specific format, etc.

[Solarius Scorch]

OK, and where is this  "Make pedia-compatible" option? Can't see it anywhere. There's no "Images" menu at all - there is only "Image", and it's not there.

EDIT: Sorry, works now... Somehow the files didn't extract properly.

[Amiga]

Unpack this file to your GIMP folder, usually %UserProfile%/.gimp-2.8 on Windows.

It contains script itself and a reference palette, which is a palette where mandatory Bootypedia colors are in place, and other slots are filled with #B00B15

When you run Gimp, there will be "Make pedia-compatible" option in Images menu, and it does just that with current image. It will ask you for reference palette and filler color, but they are set right by default, so you can just press OK.

Internally it does pretty much what Meridian describes in this https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,4957.msg72548.html#msg72548 post.

UPDATE: 1.0.1 version. Fixed couple of bugs, found thanks to Escavel and Solaris Scorch. One bug was that first color in reference palette was wrong, other was that script failed when there were too few colors in image. Both are fixed

I have some trouble with it.
1. I've opened infranView and resized img to 320x200 + decreased colours to 256
2. In GIMP from IMAGE/Make-Pedia Compatibile
3. Reference Palette XCOM-Ufopedia-Fixed
4. Export as PNG

..and doesn't work...

What I'm doing wrong?

UPDATE
Sorted out now!  I've forgot to name asset as _CPAL and now all working fine!

[Finnik]

Be aware that it does not work with the modern version of GIMP (at least for me, tho I tried it hard). Tho, it works fine without any troubles on the old 2.8 version, you can grab it from https://download.gimp.org/mirror/pub/gimp/v2.8/windows/
I can confirm it's working for 2.8.22.

[krautbernd]

I just kind of stumbled upon this thread trying to figure out how these CPAL-images work.

Just tried this script and it is an absolute timesaver, and it does in indeed work on more "modern" version of GIMP, in my case 2.10.30.

Thanks a bunch tylor

[Solarius Scorch]

Agreed; it's immensely useful.
There's absolutely no way I'd use custom palettes without this plugin.

[urz9999]

Thanks for the plugin I'm using right now for my extra race mod! Love it!