Indexed colored .lit concept for software engines

[qbism]

[leileilol]

[Spike]

[mankrip]

[qbism]

To get any kind of light smoothness, each colored light should be aligned to a color band on the palette. Even so, maybe not enough color interpolation.

A standard lit could be loaded and translated without creating a new lit format, with some adjustable tricks in the engine to align it with the palette.

Just imagining the fastest way for software engine to get some color, if it's not too horrible-looking. A little horrible is OK. Maybe will try it sometime.

[leileilol]

I think asm whipping would do the trick better than figuring out unorthodox new unproven ways of lighting. Colored lighting fully in C is too slow even for Pentium III. Having the ASM for drawspans does help a lot though to get it working okay on Pentium II but it can go potentially much faster with ASM on the 8RGB surface block.

If it's for Flash, then forget it. If it's for Dreamcast... hope you know SH4.

[dreadlorde]

[qbism]