View source for Highpalookup

A high-palette look-up table (abbreviated "highpalookup" or just "highpal") is used by the [[Polymer]] renderer to replicate the software renderer's 8-bit [[palette (environment)|palette swaps]] on 32-bit assets such as models and high resolution textures.

==SAMPLE CODE==

 // SLIMEPAL (and night vision)
 
 highpalookup { basepal 2 pal 0 file "highpal/pal_00n.png" }

This line of code is from the [http://hrp.duke4.net/ HRP]. It declares the basic night vision palette. More examples can be seen [http://svn.eduke32.com/polymer_hrp/highpal/highpal.def here].

==THE MAKING OF==

This is an advanced modding project. As such, it requires understanding of some basic concepts.

===REQUIRED READING===

*[[Wikipedia:HSL and HSV]]
*http://forums.duke4.net/topic/3191-new-polymer-feature-highpalookup-maps/
*http://advsys.net/ken/evaltut/evaldraw_tut.htm
*[[rotatesprite]]
*[[DEF Language]]

===REQUIRED TOOLS===
*[http://advsys.net/ken/download.htm EVALDRAW]
*[http://lzg.duke4.net/clutstat.zip EVALDRAW Highpal Generation Script]
*[[build tools|BUILD Customization Suite (bsuite)]], outputs palettes in Paint Shop Pro .pal plain-text format
*[http://www.gimp.org/downloads/ The GIMP], reads .pal and is open source FTW
*[http://www.fraps.com/ Fraps], or some other screen capture tool

===TUTORIAL===
Coming soon.