Can't get colored blood to match custom palette

[Nash]

So I was playing Eviternity, which has its own palette. And I added a custom small mod that colorizes the Cacos and Barons' blood colors. But no matter what I try, the colorized blood doesn't match the Eviternity palette. For example, the caco sprites' blood in Eviternity look kind of like teal-ish, but the spawned blood (and decals) appear to be unaffected by the palette at all.

Is there no way around this?

[Graf Zahl]

The translation is not palette-matched. You have to specify a translation that uses the actual colors in the palette.

[Nash]

Can't seem to get it to work. What's wrong here?

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actor aaa : Cacodemon replaces Cacodemon
{
    BloodColor "176:191=198:207"
}
 

I got this translation string from SLADE:

[Enjay]

That's mapping to palette locations - and it looks like Slade is still loading the default Doom palette. Have you tried mapping to RGB values that appear in the custom palette (not that the values have to be in the palette at all)?

Maybe try

"176:191=[83,83,255]:[0,0,83]"

[Graf Zahl]

Blood color is an RGB value, not a translation string. What it ultimately does is recoloring the complete range of colors to a shade of the given color.

[Gez]

I think what Nash needs is a way to specify a color by its index value instead of by its direct RGB value. Perhaps a syntax such as "BloodColor @204" with the @ character to indicate it's an index value?

[Nash]

Yeah my problem is that these custom blood colors aren't adapting to whatever custom palette a WAD has implemented.

[Graf Zahl]

Well, this was never designed to adapt to different palettes.

[Enjay]

As an aside:

That's neat.

[Nash]

Graf: Ah, that's too bad then. Oh well. I guess the only way is to make patches for WAD-specific blood colors.

Enjay: Thanks! it's a personal HUD mod. It'll be released some time this year (when I feel it's ready). :D