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[DantronLesotho]

Hello,

I know Game Maker has extensions that you can use, but I haven't really found any that I think are useful for what I'm working on yet. Is anyone aware of an extension that lets you save a custom color palette in game maker's image editing module? It sucks to have to use the eyedropper one color at a time to keep colors consistent across sprites.

I know that I could be using another software like photoshop, graphicsgale, pyxeledit, pixelartor, paint.net, etc, but I would like to just stick within the game maker IDE as much as possible.

Thanks!

Edit: Apparently extensions just add functionality to the operations of the games, not with the IDE itself, so it cannot be done. Womp womp!

[mokesmoe]

Something that might help is to have a small image with one of every pixel in your palette that you can copy-paste so you can just have your palette in the sprite itself. It takes up room in your sprite to paste it in but you can always make a bigger sprite for room and shrink it after.

[Glyph]

The image editor (at least for GM8) has a 'custom colors' box that you could use.

In the color picker dialog:



It only holds 16 colors and it resets every time you restart GM, also it's a pain to get all your colors into it, but it's better than nothing.

[Snowstorm]

What version of GM are you using? IIRC, custom color palettes was a feature that was (or is) supposed to be implemented into Studio at some point. 

[DantronLesotho]

Ah, I see the custom colors window now. You are right that it's still quite limited, but will help at least a little bit. Thanks!

Btw, I am using Standard professional, v8.