u/314bsex

How to make cohesive PS1 style textures

I am making a game in PS1 style and I am learning about how to make textures for the assets. In most tutorials I saw, the author just takes a texture from some free texture site, downscales it, applies dithering and indexes the colors and that's it. But If I do that for many different assets, I will have a bunch of textures that do not follow the same color palette making them not cohesive. Is there a better way of making PS1 textures?

I did discover that Aseprite has a function that forces the image that you are converting to the indexed color space, to follow the chosen color palette, but doing so a lot of detail on the image is just lost or the image just becomes unrecognizable. For example used a color palette from loSpec on a image of white tiles, which made the lines between the tiles disappear. Is this just the issue of the color palette I chose and if so, what do I need to look out when choosing a color palette for this process?

The color palette I used

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u/314bsex — 1 day ago

How to make PS1 assets with cohesive color palette

I am making a game in PS1 style and I am learning about how to make textures for the assets. In most tutorials I saw, the author just takes a texture from some free texture site, downscales it, applies dithering and indexes the colors and that's it. But If I do that for many different assets, I will have a bunch of textures that do not follow the same color palette making them not cohesive. Is there a better way of making PS1 textures?

I did discover that Aseprite has a function that forces the image that you are converting to the indexed color space, to follow the chosen color palette, but doing so a lot of detail on the image is just lost or the image just becomes unrecognizable. For example used a color palette from loSpec on a image of white tiles, which made the lines between the tiles disappear. Is this just the issue of the color palette I chose and if so, what do I need to look out when choosing a color palette for this process.

The color palette I used

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u/314bsex — 1 day ago