Help With some MM6 graphics

[HushedDispatch]

So I am doing a complete sound and graphic revamp for MM6 MDoH and I am trying to figure out how the transparency works. How do I ensure that the background of the images are transparent? Like what color do I use to make the background go blank in game.

[GreatEmerald]

IIRC the first colour of the palette is treated as transparent. Typically that's magenta, but may vary if you generate your own palettes.

[HushedDispatch]

Obviously I am a nuber. I understand what you mean by palettes from the art stand point but how exactly do I determine palettes in photoshop? Or is there a better software I should be using....

[GreatEmerald]

You generate a palette (colourmap) by setting the mode to indexed. Then you can view it and change colours around and whatnot (in GIMP: http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-concepts-palettes.html ).

I don't recall whether you absolutely need to export and import the palette and set the image to use it, or the import tools take care of that themselves nowadays. Hmm.

[HushedDispatch]

thank you so much man! I will be sure to post my work somewhere. I have been using resources from Chaos Conspiracy, Skyrim, Fallout, Oblivion, and various other sources to make my mod. I am hoping it turns out awesome!

[HushedDispatch]

What could cause this

[GreatEmerald]

Definitely an incorrect palette. Hmm, there are different tiers of enemies, and they all have their palette swaps, so I think there should be some way to assign which enemy uses which palette file. Maybe in one of the .txt files?

[HushedDispatch]

Ill keep looking then. I used MMArchives advice when doing my pallette swaps and it mentioned just with monsters just to change the hue twice so that I had 3 pallettes.

Does there have to be a certain amount of difference? or is it just not smashing all the pallettes together and I have to edit something I wonder....Ill still be working into it if you come up with something please lemme know =D

[HushedDispatch]

Think I may have found it. DSFT.BIN inside of Icons.LOD appears to assign images. I will see if I can fix it and fill you in.

[HushedDispatch]

Well that was definitely the problem. As simple as graphic mods are for this game I was trying to take some shortcuts.

I am gonna reinstall the game and compare all the default monsters like mr cobra here to his default pallete before moving him around.

[HushedDispatch]

Could you or Grayface please explain how to read this? What does each column affect?

I am having an issue with my sprites trying to use incorrect palettes vs my own.

[CATMAN]

I have been using resources from Skyrim, Fallout, Oblivion, and various other sources to make my mod.

...funny to see all this in merged...