Steffen Wrote:I cannot see the benefit of hard-coding all colors.
In DAT code, the only reason I can see to have color 16 is on fully opaque stickers which come in multiple colors. I can't think of all that many (any?) examples offhand, but I don't pay close attention to my stickers either. (They often just go in a bin of mine to be forgotten forever.)
If DAT code is ever finally replaced by texture images—which would bring many, many advantages—every sticker/printed element color would be entirely hard-coded except for transparent bits. If one were to allow dynamic sticker colors, it would impossible to convert such parts into textures without some complicated texture META which I don't really think is worth inventing.
Allen