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[/M/]

Which is the best paletes color?Bright or dark? I've been having an hard time trying to figure it out......

[Neppy]

It really depends on the tiles, I huess. A mix of light and dark is usually the best choice. You can always adjust if you need to.

[Radien]

...Lest we not get definitions mixed up, I wanted to point out that there is a difference between light/dark and bright/dull.

Here's an example:

If olive green is dull, then lime green is bright.

If sky blue is light, then midnight blue is dark.


In RGB terms, bright colors have a LOT of one or two of the three primary colors. Example: color value 63/63/0 is very bright. Another word similar to brightness is "contrast."

Light colors have a high total when you add all three of the RGB color values together. Therefore, brighter colors are often lighter as well, but not always. Example: 63/53/43 is a light color.

So... are you asking about light vs. dark, or bright versus dull? Personally, I think most palettes out there are too bright. They have too many eye-burning hues of red, blue, green, and purple. Lightness, on the other hand, doesn't matter quite as much. The human eye can adjust to lightness more easily.

[SwordOfSeals]

I voted Dark, because bright can hurt. Dark is easier on the eyes, but it maybe harder to make things out.

[Highsight]

What no Medium? (or somthing like that ) I would have to choose Bright because it is closest to Medium. (or somthing like that )

[/M/]

True, is the desentdant Tileset MEDIUM or the mystic land?

[ElricAlchemy101]

To me, I think the descendant set is pretty medium, it's a very good set. As for ML, I'd have to say that's on the light/bright side, it kind of hurts my eyes... But it's well done also.

[/M/]

Thanks for the help.

[ShadowTiger]

Some inner part of me says that the Descendant set is somewhere between a "Dull Medium" and a "Irksomely bright Dark." The Original ML set is virtually the perfect "Medium." The Pure Set's primary overworld (Just hit "0" in ZQuest.) is slightly brighter than the perfect medium.

I personally prefer to make the palletes slightly dark. It gives me the right mood I like to work with when I design my worlds.

[/M/]

Yea Pure is WAY to bright. Mystic land palletes is okay.So is Desentdant. I'm just not sure what to use

Edited by cool mike, 12 January 2005 - 09:48 PM.

[Radien]

If you think Pure is bright, go check out Praethus' new quest's palette. It's pretty good considering it's so bright, but I still think it's going quite overboard. The mountains and ground are a more neutral shade, though.

[Foxx]

I prefer the dark. A lot of bright palettes out there that burn the eyes. Still, it's possible to go overboard in that direction too, since you still need to see the stuff. I had some problems playing Diablo in the late afternoon because the sunlight glared on my monitor.

[/M/]

If you think Pure is bright, go check out Praethus' new quest's palette.  It's pretty good considering it's so bright, but I still think it's going quite overboard. The mountains and ground are a more neutral shade, though.

Yeah your right. Parethus' palletes are bright also. Pure1 OW palletes looks too fake.