Palettes Explained

Palettes in ezEdits represent a list of blocks that can be used in several commands where the order of blocks will be maintained.

Palettes can be saved and accessed using the # prefix for user-saved palettes, and ## for inbuilt preset palettes.

For reference, here's an example:

##Grayscale

Some of the many features that use palettes include:

• //eztexture ... - Texturing Commands

• #palette - Palette mask

• //ezbrush gradient ... - Brushes

Palettes can be constructed as a simple list of blocks, or via several modifiers:

• , - Concatenate:

  • Adds one block or palette to the end of the preceding block or palette. e.g stone,dirt is a 2 block palette of stone and dirt. stone,##Grayscale is a palette made of stone and the blocks of the ##Grayscale preset palette.

• - - Invert:

  • Reverses the order of a palette. e.g -##Grayscale is the ##Grayscale preset palette in reverse order (starts with white instead of black)

• (start:end) - Sub-palette:

  • Returns a portion of a palette. e.g ##Grayscale(1:8) will return the first 8 blocks of the ##Grayscale preset palette.

• * - Repeater:

  • Repeats the previous segment a given number of times. e.g gold_block*10,diamond_block will return a palette of 10 gold blocks, followed by a single diamond block.

• [] - Grouping:

  • Groups palettes together to allow a modifier to treat them as a single palette. e.g -##Grayscale,gold_block will return the ##Grayscale preset palette in reverse order, with a gold block at the end. Where -[##Grayscale,gold_block] will return the gold block at the start.

• = - Result:

  • Allows a palette to be tab-completed into its list of blocks if needed.

Video Tutorial

MegRae also made a tutorial for palettes: