Previewing Palettes With a Pet Pic
Previewing palettes on a pet file is kind of annoying because you have to close the game and reopen every time you edit the file, but you can very quickly preview different palettes using a pet's picture!
To do that, you will need:
• An image editor where you can edit color tables of indexed images. I use Photoshop. Alternatives like Photopea and Libresprite can do it too.
• A pic of your pet that is indexed in the Petz palette. If your petpix are un-indexed (as is the case when you have palette-enabled PetzA) you can index it yourself, but some colors might not be 100% accurate because the palette has many duplicate colors and programs may not assign them correctly (for example, 39 and 244 are both #000000 so things that are #000000 and were supposed to be 244 might get indexed to 39 instead). Probably the most guaranteed way would be to disable PetzA palettes, take a pic and then re-enable.
• The color table of a palette. Open the palette's BMP into your image program, go to Image > Mode > Color Table... (or the equivalent in your program) and choose to save it. It should save as a .ACT file.
If you save a lot of different palettes' .ACTs you can very quickly swap between them, like so:
This can also be useful for previewing palettes if you're getting a pet from someone else who allows for palette swaps!
Last edited: 2024-11-01