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Reading the tutorial it says to load dragon-mod.act as a custom palette.

So where does dragon-mod9.act and dragon-mod9-labelled.aco come into play with this?

Also when setting indexed color theres dither setting options of none, diffusion, pattern, or noise. If you choose diffusion it asks a percentage amount. What should I do with this? Set it to none right?

The tutorial was written quite a while ago, so use the mod9.act as the custom pallete.
You can use the -labelled.aco as a swatch palette for a color picker, instead of loading the mod9.bmp as a seperate file for picking your color. It not required though.
As for dithering, you are correct in picking "none".

-Ryandor

I'm sorry but I don't quite understand what you said there.

Should I use dragon-mod9-labelled.aco instead of dragon-mod9.act as the custom palette? Whats the difference between the two? What gets "labelled"?

They are used for completely seperate things.
the act file is the actual color table
the aco file is a swatch file

I've included a picture to help explain:



When you use the swatch (aco file) you get a tooltip when you hover the eye dropper tool over it, hence the name "labelled"
Some people prefer to use this instead of opening the colortable-mod9.bmp to pick the correct colors.

-Ryandor

Ah ok I get you. Is there a thing that tells you what the name of the current color your using is? I mean other then letting ones mouse hover over the swache till the little window pops up.

Not directly. I use the colortable-mod9.bmp to select my color. It's easier for me since there's no delay in waiting for the pop-up tool-tip.

But try both ways and see what you prefer.

-Ryandor

And with the new palette loaded some colors still have there traditional names. Which added alot to my confusion(I didnt notice the changed labels because i happen to put my mouse over the wrong colors) Are those unusable colors for map making or just unlabeled? Is there a way to remove them if unusable for map making?

Off hand, since I don't use the labelled swatches very often I'm not sure where to change it, but I know it can be changed. I will be updating it soon though.

-Ryandor