Broken color cycling for lava

[galaxyhaxz]

If you try to convert caves tiles back, the color cycling for the lava becomes broken. Even with an 8-bit PNG, the tool will re-search and find a new index for each color in the image.

The game expects colors to be cycled to be in indices 1-31, and each color mapped to a specific index to make the cycling effect work. My suggestion is to add a direct conversion of 8-bit PNG images, where the tool will simply keep the same 1-1 palette indices of the palette in the image rather than remapping to one in the command line.

[galaxyhaxz]

Here is an explanation of why this happens: the cycling effect fades in then out using the same color. This means duplicate palette entries exist. The tool will simply select the first matching index in the palette.

[mewmew]

Here is an explanation of why this happens: the cycling effect fades in then out using the same color. This means duplicate palette entries exist. The tool will simply select the first matching index in the palette.

Ah, that makes sense. There are so many specific details to keep in mind to have the palettes fully working in the game :P

[galaxyhaxz]

There are so many specific details to keep in mind to have the palettes fully working in the game :P

Yeah, to be fair though, they could have probably made it work without the fade out part if they coded tables instead of shifting everything by one (:

[AJenbo]

Are the png palette indexes even exposed to the code?

[galaxyhaxz]

I imagine there should be a function for it, you don't even need the palette itself just have to decompress the raw image data and then RLE it.