Quakes Color Pallete

[ceriux]

hey guys, was just wondering if anyone can explain to me what special colors on the pallet are for maybe do a quick paint over?

i know the bottom ones are for stuff just not sure what?



i'm basing my pallet on a picture i found of the game actraiser

here's a comparison of my current pallet to my reference.

[leileilol]

i know the bottom ones are for stuff just not sure what?

muzzleflash/hell knight projectiles, flourescent lights (E1m1, e2m1, e3m1, e4m1, dm3), lightning bolt, glowing button/gun/rune lights. more flourescent lights and explosion pixels, sprite/2d lump transparency color

jesus christ have you ever played quake before

[ceriux]

well, yeah. thats obvious but i mean more specifically whats their placement on the pallet it's self.?

i'm sorry if the way i worded my original post was off, wasn't exactly sure of how to say it.

[Dr. Shadowborg]

The order goes left to right, starting with 0 (black), and goes all the way up to 255 which is transparent. Palette numbers 240-255 are your bottom row of fullbrights. (fullbrights are unaffected by darkness in a level.) I'm not sure, but I think the next row up (fire) may also be treated like fullbrights.

[ceriux]

so basically...

[leileilol]

All 32 colors in the end are fullbright

None of them are blood. Blood is exclusively using the 5th row


dunno why the speculation, everyone who's played Quake knows what they're used for. You can find the red fullbrights in dark levels with glowing red rune lights (dm2 has lots of them). You can find the yellows on flourescent lights. The flame row comes from your gun, comes from the rockets, comes from the torches, comes from the hell knight projectiles,....


goddamnit, play quake, use your fricking eyes. The purpose of those colors is to glow.


Then again psp kids running pretentious quake fan groups probably skipped the whole quake game thing, assuming quake's a "halo portable maker engine" or something, wondering why their models and maps are shimmering for no reason etc. This indundancy is extremely to a facepalming degree

[Spirit]

It is so sad that people who buy Quake nowadays on Steam just get the shoddy id original glquake.exe with no fullbrights (etc). So if it even runs on their hardward/software, it will look shabby.

[frag.machine]

All 32 colors in the end are fullbright

None of them are blood. Blood is exclusively using the 5th row


dunno why the speculation, everyone who's played Quake knows what they're used for. You can find the red fullbrights in dark levels with glowing red rune lights (dm2 has lots of them). You can find the yellows on flourescent lights. The flame row comes from your gun, comes from the rockets, comes from the torches, comes from the hell knight projectiles,....


goddamnit, play quake, use your fricking eyes. The purpose of those colors is to glow.


Then again psp kids running pretentious quake fan groups probably skipped the whole quake game thing, assuming quake's a "halo portable maker engine" or something, wondering why their models and maps are shimmering for no reason etc. This indundancy is extremely to a facepalming degree

Yo, cranky oldfart: stop the "get off my lawn" stuff and have some Haldol.

[ceriux]

Thanks, frag.machine. Yeah, leilei sorry i'v never edited the quake pallet before, (also i just now got a psp recently) i didn't want to just jump into something i didn't understand and have to redo it. So i figured i'd ask in the appropriate place. Oh and thanks for updating your post and making it a bit more constructive.

edit: Oh and sorry for using the wrong terminology thanks for the correction (glow.)

edit2: Also i could care less about halo solitude ("halo portable") or any game clone, they're nice but the developers should have spent their time and effort on something better.

(you remind me of a troll i ran into on PVKII , not happy unless you can try and tick someone off , ill stop commenting your work. i'm tired of seeing different versions of the same model anyways.)

[qbism]

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Here is what the Quake palette looks like:
(viewed in palette order)
There are 16 rows of 16 colors each.  Each row is defined (here) by a letter.

|---------------------------------|
| a*a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a |
| b#b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b |} This is the player top (shirt) color row
| c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c |  (yellow\brown)
| d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d |
| e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e |
| f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f |
| g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g |} This is the player bottom (pants) colors
| h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h |  (orange/pink)
| i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i |
| j j j j j j j j j j j j j j j j |
| k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k#|
| l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l |
| m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m |
| n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n |  These are the fullbright color
| o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o |} the "o" row is the fire colors,
| p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p |} the "p" row is the yellow, blue, and
|---------------------------------|  red light colors
note: a* (top left) is black RGB 0,0,0
note: k# is the same color as b# (darkest top/shirt color), so be aware of it

http://joz3d.net/documents/qgraphic.txt