makecol_depth(3alleg4)

✨ makecol_depth ✨ (from the Allegro manual, section 3alleg4)

okay bestie, gather round, because this one is a tiny little icon and it does exactly one thing and it does it flawlessly 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

makecol_depth — converts an RGB value into the specified pixel format. Part of the Allegro game programming library. 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <allegro.h>

int makecol_depth(int color_depth, int r, int g, int b);

no cap, that's the whole vibe. four ints in, one int out. 🫶

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the tea: your colors live in a hardware independent format — red, green, and blue values, each one ranging 0-255 (the classic). but your actual pixels? they live in whatever format the specified color depth demands. and those two things are not the same thing, bestie.

makecol_depth is the little matchmaker that takes your pretty RGB triplet and converts it into the pixel format required by the color depth you hand it. it's giving translator, it's giving bridge, it's giving "i speak both languages fluently." 👑

example, because examples are self care:

/* Compose the green color for 15 bit color depth. */
int green_15bit = makecol_depth(15, 0, 255, 0);

look at that. 15 bits, zero red, all the green, zero blue. iconic behavior. 🌈

⭐ RETURN VALUE ⭐

it returns the requested RGB triplet in the specified color depth. that's it, that's the whole gift. no error codes, no drama, just your color in the right format. 🎁

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• makeacol(3alleg4) 🍓
• makecol(3alleg4) ✨
• makecol8(3alleg4) 🦋
• makecol15_dither(3alleg4) 💫
• rgb_map(3alleg4) 🌸
• set_color_depth(3alleg4) 🎀

go read them all, they're all part of the same friend group iykyk 💕

and that's a wrap on makecol_depth, brought to you by Allegro, version 4.4.3, filed under makecol_depth(3alleg4). mwah, take care of your pixels, bestie 💖✨👑