KKyrahAbattoirDec 30, 2016 at 9:10 am
The ones I'm specifically thinking about are ARGB1555, ARGB4444 and RGB565:
ARGB1555 has a 1 bit alpha (binary opaque/transparent) and 5 bits per channel (32 levels per channel so 32768 colors total)
ARGB4444 has 4 bits per channel including alpha, so 4096 colors and 16 alpha levels.
ARGB565 has 32 levels per channel and 64 levels for the green channel (the one humans perceive the most)
The reason I'm asking because those all have more than 256 tones so using fixed palettes is not really an ideal option and no art package out there supports those color schemes, which means that the artist has to either constantly check if the RGB colors he is using will fit, or suffer visual degradations during the conversion to those formats.
DDarkhogDec 30, 2016 at 1:50 pm
I may be mistaken, but I think Cosmigo ProMotion has support for these, but that program is tad bit expensive.
KKyrahAbattoirDec 30, 2016 at 3:26 pm
I couldn't say, most softwares support custom palettes but are usually in RGB:16.7M colors. How difficult would it be to allow the user to reduce the number of bits to allocate to each color channel?
KKyrahAbattoirMay 2, 2017 at 11:22 pm
Any chance for this feature request to be accepted?