How to handle the Pico-8 palette - Palette

You cannot change the available color (RGB), and need to pick from the 32 available / 2. - How Can I Change the Pico 8 Palette?

Palette Tools

• Color Palette Studio (online) / demo
• Palette-Maker

Palettes

cf pal / 2

There are:

• a draw palette (affect only draw operation)
• a display palette affect everything regardless of draw history and buffer content
• a secondary display palette - that can be set to affect only specific line on the screen (if rotate screen this will allow columns effect)

Secondary palette, can be used to:

• water effect
• scanline effect
• highlight effect - change one color to white
• gradiant effect - replace one color with a gradiant from secondary palette
  • can be use for shadowing grass / water / tree

Enabling 32 Colors

• Enabling more than 16 colors on the screen
  • 32 Colors at the Same Time! - water effect / crt effect / highlight / gradiant effect
• Working with the secret color palette / 2
• Screen palette line set

Color Mapping

• How to convert an image to pico-8 with optimized size
  • Image-To-Pico8 Converter ImgToP8
  • Add animated glitch to your images, in the pico8 color palette
• Mapping to the PICO-8 palette, perceptually / HN

Bitplanes

• Bitplanes! An overview
• Bitplane Mixing Circles

Semi Transparent effect

• How’s the semi-transparent effect in PICO-8 pause menu made?

Fade to black

• Fade 2 Black
• PICO-8 COLOR FADE GENERATOR

see also

• Lighting by hand
• Fading in/out

Others

• LazyDevs
• Pico-8 Tutorial - Breakout
• Dylan Bennett

• Gamecodeur

• zep.p8@mastodon

Some palette Analysis

• Pico-8 Colour Study