Support of colour palettes in .ase format

[YarlBoro]

Adobe ASE format is common for exchange palettes between graphic design apps and colour palette creation software. Support for loading ASE files would improve colour management in Goxel. Maybe there could be 'Palettes' folder, from which Goxel would load all ASE palettes and add them to ones that are built-in. Here are materials that might be useful while evaluating and (maybe) implementing this feature:

Unofficial format spec (for details of format, scroll below table)
http://www.selapa.net/swatches/colors/fileformats.php

Existing implementations http://www.colourlovers.com/ase.phps https://github.com/hughsk/adobe-swatch-exchange https://github.com/andrewfiorillo/ase-to-sketchpalette/tree/master/js

[guillaumechereau]

OK, I'll try to add this in the future.

[YarlBoro]

Thanks!

[guillaumechereau]

I added support for a 'palettes' directory where we can put 'gpl' palettes. On mac the path would be "/users/yourname/Library/Application Support/Goxel/palettes/"

I haven't checked the ASE format yet though. Any source to a C implementation of a loader?

[YarlBoro]

Thank you, this will come in handy! I’ve found this page: http://carl.camera/default.aspx?id=109

I think it’s more compact discription of ASE spec, than in links that I posted earlyer. I’ll keep on looking for C implementation of loader.

[axredneck]

Where can i find a list of palette formats currently supported by Goxel?

[YarlBoro]

I think you can only use Gimp *.gpl and Build Engine *.dat files

[guillaumechereau]

Yes, for the moment. Do you need other formats?

[YarlBoro]

Since Axredneck seem to be absent...I request again ASE format or/and loading palette from PNG. Thank You!

[axredneck]

I'm not absent i thought he asks you, not me. Loading palette from indexed .png would be good though anybody can extract palette from indexed .png with Gimp and save it as .gpl. For me .gpl and .dat are currently enough.

[YarlBoro]

I thought this is question to both of us. Palettes- yes, that is true. Less convenient, but perfectly fine method.

[axredneck]

Loading palette from indexed png would be especially needed when importing such png.

[guillaumechereau]

I just added support for png palettes. It should work by adding any png file into the palettes folder. Let me know if that doesn't work.

[YarlBoro]

Very useful addition, thanks! I will try later to compile latest version and will get back with results.

[YarlBoro]

Seem to work perfectly. I used couple of PNGs and they were used as palettes in Goxel. No issues so far. Thanks again!