When I’m working on a Production job, I usually build it in several sections. When you then import these sections, you will import the Pallette from each part.
Pencil2d will check the pallette of both the project in memory, with the pallette files attached to the imported layer or Layers. If they’re identical then there will be no change to the pallette in memory as shown, but when the project is reloaded they initial pallette is followed by the used colour in the added file. This doesn’t show up initially because of the way pallette are implemented in Pencil2D.
If a difference is found then the pallette file will now contain the in memory pallette, followed by the imported one. This file will therefore be larger than the pallette file before the layer import.
A little thought, at the planning stage means that you produce a common Pallette for each project segment.
Thus you prevent the above problems.
I’ve tried to edit pallette files and I can’t find a reliable method of so doing.
The reason that I started to build projects in a several parts was the problem of perceived problems with managing the build.
I want to thank MarySmith for her input. Her thoughts about the colours of scrollbar etc. and the though that problem which I experienced were the computer running out of memory.
The result is that I’ve embarked on a ‘wild goose chase’ to solve the problem is perceived, that actually lies in a different direction!
On the Pallette side in vector animation, I now have a technique of removing duplicate colours. For a project using say about 50 colours this might seem overkill!
I save the file, using a different filename after the layer import. I then reload it. Because of the way Pencil2D works, some onscreen indications are not updated until the project is reloaded.
I change the pallette display to linier mode, if I’d previously had it set to grouped mode.
I move the second copy of each colour, to be under its repeated colour, from the original pallette.
Then I delete the 2nd copy, I’ve found it more reliable to do this separately for each colour deletion.
It might increase your confidence initially, if you check that the colour of the using the pipes tool. Choose a different colour and then check the colour as defined by the 2nd pallette entry!
You might ask why I’m doing this, but on a complicated lip sinc sequence, after deletion if the colours used, part of the lip sinc was coloured white, this included rhe black outline, the white teeth and the red tongue. This sequence had over 30 frames which then required correction!
I’ve also found a way to add or delete frames from a animation sequence. I’ll cover thus in a later entry!
The only way that an artist can developed a unique style, is by that artist pressing the techniques hard!