Talk:Petit Computer 3/@comment-15296152-20140803022150/@comment-15296152-20140803191156

Not necessarily. As I described before, referencing a palette could use a 24-bit color value, except only the red component is of any use, limiting it to 256 possible values. Since RGB returns a number (it just does the calculation of , you don't necessarily need to use that function, but can have it pre-calculated and write that value in instead. In such a case, the red component is usually on the lower bound of combined values (BIT0-7 ~ red, BIT8-15 ~ green, BIT16-23 ~ blue), you could just write a number between 0 and 255, inclusive, into the field. It's all a matter of whether you can designate a BG/SPR/GRP to use palettes or direct color through some other function.

I would like to point out that if color is 24-bit, then it doesn't have any bits left to designate transparency. To have transparency, it would require designing one specific color to become as such, because honestly, if they choose complete black <0,0,0> as the transparency and won't let you change it, then that'll be a problem for drawing things like sprites.