Ring Racers Custom Characters Sprite Sheet Confusion

I have some questions about sprite coloring and the palette:

When determining the paintable regions of a sprite, I usually convert any shade belonging to the other 16-color rows of the palette (like the 32-47 or 144-159 ranges) to the corresponding shade of green sharing the same column. But what if the non-paintable shade belongs to an 8-color row like 64-71 or 208-215? Or either of the two 4-color rows and the two 12-color ones? Should I still change it to the shade of green below or above it on the palette, or is there another method/rule of thumb I'm missing for this case?

Kaleb_Advent said:

Well, if there wasn't before, there is now! I made this myself by copying parts of the picture Zipper sent and pasting/editing them over parts of the asymmetrical template.

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I want to point out that the reference sprites for the glance/drift rows are in the wrong order. They should not be arranged like this:

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Because otherwise your character will look at the camera like a moron every time you drift. Instead, they should be arranged like this:

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If I'm understanding this correctly...
If you have SLADE installed, you can do this:

From the popup that appears, you can select any matrix of colors to be the correct shade of green, no matter how many colors are in that range. (The tool does not account for color value, and only looks for the position of the colors.)
(To clarify, "Origin Range" can be any set of colors, not just the 6 I have selected.)
Do note that this will recolor any part of the sprite that uses the colors you have selected, so be careful with using this method!

Don't tell me you've been doing this manually this whole time...

PlatterTheFinch said:

If I'm understanding this correctly...
If you have SLADE installed, you can do this:
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From the popup that appears, you can select any matrix of colors to be the correct shade of green, no matter how many colors are in that range. (The tool does not account for color value, and only looks for the position of the colors.)
(To clarify, "Origin Range" can be any set of colors, not just the 6 I have selected.)
Do note that this will recolor any part of the sprite that uses the colors you have selected, so be careful with using this method!
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Don't tell me you've been doing this manually this whole time...

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Yes, I have been doing it manually this whole time. Had to prepare and arrange an entire colormap matching the SRB2 palette on GIMP just to find (what i thought were) the correct shades of green. I'm genuinely insane.

That's actually really useful. The palette translation string helped me learn how, exactly, any range of colors is converted to another. Unfortunately, my process of making pre-rendered sprites via GIMP (by converting images to index mode using the SRB2 palette) tends to result in pixels of the same color being scattered around, so I still have to do manual corrections. But still, thanks for bringing this to my attention!