Fallout 2 mod How do animated pixels work in the color.pal

[V12shear]

I am planning on creating new scenery and object for a mod, and was wondering how animated pixels generally work. The only program that I found to even open the color.pal file was PALview and you could only just view the palette. I don't plan to make a new palette or anything, I just was wonder how I could use one of the animated colors. I read some info saying that the .exe controls those specific colors. Btw if you extract any .frm with animated pixels into Frame Animator the animated pixels just appear blank.

 

[hexer]

Animated colors are hardcoded to cycle at certain speeds to generate the illusion of directional movement. You can see the palette in action here https://fodev.net/files/fo2/fo_colors.html

To animate your FRM file you need to use these specific colors in your art and then save both the BMP/GIF/PNG and FRM files using the proper palette. I'm attaching the static and animated palettes for you here. Be careful not to use the animated one on a static art, otherwise it will probably get animated inside the game.

 

[V12shear]

Thanks, I think I get it now.

 

[Gizmojunk]

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