bmp2spr.zip

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                 BMP2SPR 1.1
               by Lee Gaiteri

         Visit the Norn Underground
 http://www.dreamscape.com/lummoxjr/creatures
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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

    Windows 95 or NT
    (Graphics mode is irrelevant to this program. You should be using at
     least 256 colors, but beyond that it doesn't matter whether you use 256
     colors or true-color mode.)

HOW TO USE BMP2SPR

    USING .BMP FILES

    The black square on the left holds the current bitmap image. To load a
    bitmap file, click the Load button beneath the square. You can save the
    bitmap by clicking the Save button.

    You can load 256-color and 24-bit truecolor .BMP files. If you load an
    image that has colors which don't fit into the Creatures palette, the
    program will convert the image to the Creatures Palette automatically.

        - If the image already uses the Creatures palette, it will be loaded
          normally. If you use the normal Creatures palette with a different
          color (such as red) as color 0, the image will load as if color 0
          is transparent. I usually use red as a transparent color when I
          want black to load normally.
        - Nearest color matching converts colors to the Creatures palette by
          simply changing each pixel to the closest matching color.
        - Diffusion dithering spreads out the error that occurs in ordinary
          color matching, resulting in a cleaner image, much truer to the
          original colors.

    Bitmaps are saved as 256-color images using the Creatures palette.

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