Hi there!
If you are an artist or programmer, in order to give a realistic NES/DOS look to your graphics, I propose an application for automatic retro console color palette matching. Not just 8 bit quantization, but the real color palette used by implemented consoles.
RePic address: https://prowizz.itch.io/repic
Sample images (cart - NES and DOS versions):
The App will be working within the command line and should be usable by artists or programmers that create games. I will develop a GUI later, if wanted. Mac and Linux platform executables will follow.
For now, it is only working for DOS and NES color palettes and only in assisted interactive mode. Future updates will bring running in command line-only, so it could be used in scripts, on whole folders. This will open the possibility of making animated retro backgrounds.
The application uses multi-processing and native code in order to assure blazing fast speed. More optimizations in the updates yet to come.
Usage:
The app works from command line. From the install folder, command line would be:
RePic.exe [picture_name] (example for above picture: RePic.exe cart.jpg)
or
Drag&Drop image over the executable.
When running you can press:
- 1 - DOS color palette
- 2- NES color palette
- 0 - smoothed original image
- ENTER - save the image as PNG 320x240
RePic is in prototype phase. Suggestions and comments are greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
ProWizz