OpenRA

Well, since we already did a ton of this, it would indeed be useful to ask Reaperrr about it.
Some iterations we went through, in the now-defunct Tiberian Dawn eXtended project :

http://www.ppmsite.com/forum/files/tilesfix_164.png

http://www.ppmsite.com/forum/files/piratesnewcliffs_134.png

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Ahh, right. The theater-specific SHPs. I just didn't think the icon loading would look at the theater at all, but if all SHP handling is handled the same way, I guess it makes sense.

So, you can technically have customized icons per tileset, with separate palettes using PaletteFromTileset, but as it is, with the original game data, it's just not useful in any way.

Hm. Makes sense.


The only reason that the engine even loads the theatre-specific icons is that it would require ...

So umm anyone know how to fix the palette issues. I honestly have no clue where to start :S
It's not hard... you just make sure that if you use the icons set of Desert, you actually use the desert theater palette. I assume in OpenRA you only need one set anyway... so just make it use the palette ...

The power plant needs some work though... it's clearly misaligned.

Those D2K ones can't really be used as husks though, seeing as they're all on sand background.

Maps which are all quite small and definitely designed for weaker computers and low resolution by Westwood.

Not as if C&C has anything else than "low resolution"... the maximum map size in the game is only 62x62 cells.

Try changing https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/blob/bleed/mods/cnc/rules/system.yaml#L75 to PaletteFromCurrentTileset, too.
That depends... does the mod include the icon sets of all theaters, or just one? I mean, there's no real reason to include all different sets, as long as the set that's used ...

They have a mess of wrong colour pixels in them. Look at the Death Star icon; it looks rusty in the middle. The Sandcrawler and flame tank icons have a mess of cyan pixels in them. And the MCV, Tie Crawler, an dAT-AT icons have a pale purple/blue for stuff that should just be grey.

Basically, if ...

Seems the latest screenshots still have messed up cameos... please use the icon sets with their correct theater palette...

And I'm not sure how, but all mods should be made the way / and the engine should have updates not breaking the mods.. Cannot lose cool mods like this.. Maybe fallback settings...
That would be cool... a pure vanilla behaviour mod. I quite dislike how the Refinery's unload animation was abused as ...

Colour overlays are fine. It's no different from the full-remap rocket launcher. Red is simply a pretty bad colour, and on OpenRA specifically it seems to have higher contrast than in the original game.

Also note that the A-wing is partially actual non-remapping red, so red looks kinda weird on it ...

Sleipnir wrote: Thankfully, Westwood fixed this in ra.

True... I do prefer C&C's actual unload animation over RA's simple resource dumping though.

proctwr.shp is an overlay, again drawn on top of the idle sequence, which indicates the fullness of the refinery - a nice polish improvement over the original game, but unrelated to docking.
So wait, it abuses the filling tower animation as silo status? That kinda doesn't work for the C&C2SW ...

Well, guess someone will need to remake the unload stuff for the RA2SW mod then... can't be too hard, the unload anim is really simple. Just harvester pasted on refinery, a tube docking on, and pixel-semitransparent clouds coming from the chimney thing :p

Might do it on the train to work if I got ...