From: "Pavlos" <trash24379 AT usa DOT net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: beginner allegro question
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 03:03:16 +0300
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Delbeke P. wrote in message <7o7un5$q8v$1 AT trex DOT antw DOT online DOT be>...
>1 ) Can anyone tell me more on how to display
>my_nice_povray_rendered_targa_file(tm) in *true color* ?
>
>I already have this :
>
>...
>  BITMAP *thing;
>...
>  if (set_gfx_mode(GFX_VESA2L, 640, 480, 0, 0) != 0) {
>      printf ("uh-oh");
>      exit(1);
>   }
>
>  thing = load_tga("thing.tga",pal);
>  set_palette(pal);
>  draw_sprite(screen, board, 0, 0);
>
>  readkey();
>...
>...
>
>but that looks rather 8bbp-ish.
>
Use set_color_septh()  before set_gfx_mode. Also, the palette
pal is useless for high-true color bitmaps and modes.
You should remove set_palette(pal).
Remember that some graphics cards support only 32 bit, while
others only 24 bit.

>And yet another silly question  :  If I put this tga-fila in a data-file, I
>do :
>  thing = (RLE_SPRITE *)data[THING_TGA].dat;
>... but I don't know how to get the palette right.
>
>
What palette are you trying to get? Isn't your bitmap true color?
In case you have a 8bit bitmap in a datafile and want to
load it's palette, you have to put the palette in the datafile also.

Pavlos