First post, by Gagster
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I have been using a program called Aseprite that's on Steam lately to add colors to the Commander Keen 4-6 games running in the source port Commander Genius, by editing extracted tilemaps from those games. While adding more colors to the 16 color tilemaps, I've chosen the VGA 13h palette in Aseprite (the default VGA color palette).
However, as I read in http://www.shikadi.net/moddingwiki/VGA_Palette, VGA games usually had their own custom VGA palettes edited from a total selection of 262,144 colors. The default VGA palette doesn't have all the colors I want, but how can I create a custom 256 color VGA palette that only uses colors from the full range of 262,144 colors, and not by accident use colors not present in the VGA color bank? There's color wheels and such in painting software with RGB values and such, but I have no idea which one of the RGB values are to be found in the VGA color range of 262,144 colors.
Is there a way to ensure that if I find a red color I like, that the exact color is to be found in the VGA range of 262,144 colors, maybe with some kind of online tool or maybe an easy to use software application?
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