Palettes

A Pixelate Palette is a project asset that holds an ordered list of colors. You use palettes in two places:

• Color Palette in Custom mode limits sprites to the palette.
• Palette Swap replaces colors slot by slot with another palette.

Both also accept imported palette files and palette images directly.

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Import a palette file

Drop a palette file into your project, for example one downloaded from Lospec. Pixelate Pro imports these formats with no extra steps: The file becomes a palette you can assign right away. Colors keep the file’s order, and any alpha is dropped. An imported palette is read-only in Unity because the file owns it. When you change the file, the palette updates. To edit the colors in Unity, click Create Editable Copy: it saves {name} Editable.asset next to the file. If a file has lines Pixelate Pro can’t read, the Console lists them with the line number and how to fix it; the rest of the colors still import. Binary .pal files aren’t supported: export the palette as JASC-PAL, .gpl or .hex instead.

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Create a Pixelate Palette

• From an image: select a palette strip PNG (a Sprite or Texture2D) and choose Assets > Create > Pixelate > Pixelate Palette.
• From an Auto palette: click Export on a Color Palette effect in Auto mode.
• From a palette image already assigned as Custom Palette or Match Palette: click Create Pixelate Palette in the effect. It creates Palette_{image name}.asset next to the image and assigns it.

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Edit a palette

Select a Pixelate Palette in the Project window. Its Inspector lists the Palette Slots:

• change a slot’s color with the color field or the eyedropper;
• drag slots to reorder them, and use + / - to add or remove slots;
• Sort reorders all slots by hue, saturation, brightness, luminance, RGB, red, green or blue, or inverts the order;
• Export PNG saves the palette as a PNG color strip, handy for art tools.

You can also edit the palette in place from the Color Palette effect (Start Editing) or Palette Swap (Edit Match Palette).