create_blender_table(3alleg4)

💖 create_blender_table — Allegro manual, bestie edition 💖

okay so this one is from the Allegro manual, and it's literally the girlboss that makes your crusty 8-bit paletted mode do the same cute glow-up that truecolor gets. no cap.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <allegro.h>

void create_blender_table(COLOR_MAP *table, const PALETTE pal, void
(*callback)(int pos));

like, that's the whole signature, she's not complicated 💅

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so here's the tea 🍓 — create_blender_table() fills the COLOR_MAP you hand it (table) with all the lookup data it needs to fake a paletted version of whatever truecolor blender mode is currently selected. it's giving translator, it's giving understudy who ate, it's giving 8-bit doing cosplay of 24-bit.

so the workflow is: first you call set_trans_blender(), or set_blender_mode(), or literally any of the other truecolor blender mode routines — get that 24-bit blending vibe set up exactly how you want it 😌 — and then you hit this function. and boom 💥, it builds you an 8-bit mapping table that gives you the same results as whatever 24-bit blending mode you've got enabled. the paletted mode is out here serving the exact same look. periodt.

ngl bestie, the order matters — this is a "copy the current mode's homework" situation, not a "guess the mode" situation. set the blender first, then call her. 🫶

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the whole friend group, fr fr 💜:

• color_map(3alleg4)
• create_light_table(3alleg4)
• create_trans_table(3alleg4)
• create_color_table(3alleg4)
• draw_trans_sprite(3alleg4)
• draw_lit_sprite(3alleg4)
• draw_gouraud_sprite(3alleg4)
• set_trans_blender(3alleg4)
• set_blender_mode(3alleg4)

🌈✨ and that's the whole page, bestie! this icon was brought to you by Allegro, version 4.4.3 — the create_blender_table(3alleg4) era. go forth and blend, you absolute main character 👑💖🦋