Protoss Building Glow

[Aurrin]

I'm making a total conversion mod, and I'm trying to edit the sprites for the protoss buildings, but I'm having difficulty editing the glow sprites. Evidently, they work by RGB addition of whatever happens to be underneath them. However, all of mine crash whenever I load them. I've extended the originals to the same size as my new sprite, and they don't crash, but the new ones I've made do. Does anyone have any insight as to how to make these?

[StarModder]

Are you useing the correct pallete??

[Aurrin]

I don't exactly know. First, I put the glow sprites into the default starcraft palette, and that crashed. Last night, someone suggested I try changing the palette with arsenal III, so I changed images.dat 'nexus glow' entry to use default palette. It still crashed.

I can try saving the glow images in the "blue 1" palette, but I don't know where to find it.

[Aqo]

I don't exactly know. First, I put the glow sprites into the default starcraft palette, and that crashed. Last night, someone suggested I try changing the palette with arsenal III, so I changed images.dat 'nexus glow' entry to use default palette. It still crashed.

I can try saving the glow images in the "blue 1" palette, but I don't know where to find it.
All of the image palettes you choose in Arsenal are pointers and all should work. You need to make sure all of the frames in the GRP use the correct palette... any 8-bit image should also work, but it would probably mess up.

[Aurrin]

Would it be helpful if I uploaded the files somewhere so people could look at them?

Quite honestly, I have no idea why they don't work. Everything I know says they should, even if it results in something that doesn't look like I want it to. But it crashes.

[Sikawtic]

Would it be helpful if I uploaded the files somewhere so people could look at them?

Quite honestly, I have no idea why they don't work. Everything I know says they should, even if it results in something that doesn't look like I want it to. But it crashes.I like you! Complete sentences, knowledgeable... I hope you stick around :D

[StarModder]

HA HA HA HA HA, i was thinkin the same thing!! :)

[Zaeyel]

Aurrin this might be off topic towards the thread name but can i see ur TC? (Not like the two posts above werent off topic)
(That aint much off topic now is it? Or is it :( )

[Aurrin]

Thank you, thank you. :) I have always found 'netspeak' to be singularly irritating, so I try to avoid it as much as possible.

There isn't much to show for it yet, I'm afraid. I ran into this problem right off the bat, so I haven't made much progress. I started with the protoss, because they're the race I'll be modding the most heavily into a race of my own design: The Lithanians. (No, there's no relation to eastern Europe.) I made this nice spiral to replace the nexus, but then I couldn't fix the glow for it. I'm attaching the last good MPQ and one of the bitmap glow files I created myself for it (which I have not been able to make work yet).