Party like it's 1981 - CGA palette post-process template

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I created a template / example project showing how to do post-processing to limit a UE4 game to CGA palette 0 or palette 1 ahead of #cgajam](CGA JAM - itch.io), which just started today.

You can download the template from itch.io and there’s a writeup on how it works and suggestions for further modifications on my blog.

Note: The map used in the .gif above is from the “Hand Painted Environment” marketplace pack by Evgeniya Yaremko, and is not included in the template.

Cheers,
Michael Noland

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I will certainly use it, thank you very much.

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How did you make the 25%, 50% and 75% dithered LUTs? With Photoshop? I can’t find a way to do that with GIMP.

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Yeah I used Photoshop. I loaded the stock LUT from Color Grading and Filmic Tonemapper | Unreal Engine Documentation and did Image…Mode…Indexed Color, picking Forced…Custom to set the four colors and adjusting the dither settings for each save.

Cheers,
Michael Noland

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I see, with GIMP you can’t adjust the dithering settings as much. Still it looks similar to the LUT with 50% so I think is good enough.

Thanks.

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Any idea of how to emulate CGA 16 color mode?

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Use the LUT approach mentioned in the article (creating one with the 16 colors) and either don’t use the thresholding or do it on a per-component basis.

Cheers,
Michael Noland

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Thanks! I will check.

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This looks awesome!

Now only if it would run on my XT! :slight_smile: