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Man Pie
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posted 17 November 2001 19:11     Click Here to See the Profile for Man Pie   Click Here to Email Man Pie        Reply w/Quote   
I was ****ed when people told me that i had to ditch mspaint and get a professional paint program that you have palette files for. well i just figured out that you dont need any! all you need is Dc6 Maker (hosted here), any paint program (i use MSPaint), and Microsoft Photo Editor (comes with Windows 2000, may come with older versions of windows too) Then just open your image in your paint program, edit it however you want, then open it in Photo Editor, go to File -> Properties, choose Palette or 256 color, click Custom, choose Variable, then save it. Then open Dc6 Maker, click Add Frame, then choose the image you just finished working on, and save your new dc6.

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posted 18 November 2001 13:09     Click Here to See the Profile for Watcher   Click Here to Email Watcher        Reply w/Quote   
Or you could just select "256 color bitmap" format when you save your bmp file. It's in the drop-down list at the bottom of the save dialog box. Then Dc6 Maker will read it just fine.

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Man Pie
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posted 19 November 2001 16:01     Click Here to See the Profile for Man Pie   Click Here to Email Man Pie        Reply w/Quote   
For some reason dc6 maker doesnt like any image i use that i dont do the above for... well lucky you i guess

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posted 20 November 2001 07:19     Click Here to See the Profile for Watcher   Click Here to Email Watcher        Reply w/Quote   
Naw, I just discovered that it won't work completely. Problem: first MSPaint converts to a 256 color palette, then Dc6 Maker converts to a different 256 color palette. Pretty hard to get a lot of different colors through this.

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