Palettes and bitmaps

["Jai Cuyler" <jaicuyler@bigpond.com>]

Hi,

 

I'm new to this group. I've been studying C++ for a few months now and I'm going through Tricks fo the Windows Game Programmin Gurus by Andre Lamothe.

I would like to make a simple scrolling game but I'm having trouble with the bitmaps. I can't seem to get the palettes right. All I want to do is make simple 256 color 8bbp bitmaps from different programs. How do you make sure that you are using the same palatte when working with different programs?

I load one bitmap and it is fine then I load another one from a different program and all the colors go crazy. Can you convert pitmaps to use the same palatte or are you limited to using the same painting program for all the artwork for a single level.

 

The other thing I would like to know is how to make animation bitmap templates. You know. A bunch of small bitmaps that make up an animation put into one bitmpap with a grid and some kind of ordering for each box.

 

Any Ideas?????