16-Color Palette Failed to Load

[maxman]

I'm trying to load a 16-color palette using .png after I input palette in a character text. But it has failed to load. I know gif works fine, but I wanna use png so I would have file sizes of frames compressed short from converting the sprites/frames into gif (certain frames in certain animation name folders).

palette data/chars/bison/idle/stand01.png
alternatepal data/chars/bison/alt01.png

********** An Error Occurred **********
*            Shutting Down            *

Fatal Error in load_cached_model, file: data/chars/bison/bison.txt, line 24, message: Failed to load palette!
Total Ram: 4168376320 Bytes
 Free Ram: 971419648 Bytes
 Used Ram: 50540544 Bytes

Release level data...........
Done!

Release graphics data........	Done!
Release game data............


Release game data............	Done!
Release timer................	Done!
Release input hardware.......	Done!
Release sound system.........	Done!
Release FileCaching System...	Done!

**************** Done *****************

Fatal Error in load_cached_model, file: data/chars/bison/bison.txt, line 24, message: Failed to load palette!

 

[danno]

Have you tried using .act files instead? I prefer point directly to the palette file instead of the .PNG file and .act is smaller than .PNG in most cases

 

[maxman]

Before, but at that time, I was always struggling with palettes using .act. I have Gimp and Irfanview. I don't remember using .act anymore, as well as Photoshop. How can I take an advantage of using .act to separately convert a certain character? Gimp doesn't recognize .pal files, but probably .gpl, I guess. Infanview does recognize .pal. Remap does work, but I can't find a certain palette with it.

 

[O Ilusionista]

maxman Fighter Factory has a very cool palette editor and can even display your sprites with different palettes.
And yes, an .act weights only 768kb if not mistaken.

 

[maxman]

I keep forgetting about Fighter Factory 'cause I don't use it much. I don't know how to open .png/.gif and .act files with it. Do I need a newer/better version for opening those in order for them to display? Maybe I can save a palette file as a .act file?

 

[O Ilusionista]

go to TOOLS > Advanced palette editor.

 

[msmalik681]

16 colour pngs do not work in <6391 but it has been fixed in newer builds by plombo.

16 colour images use more ram stick to 256.

 

[maxman]

I just downloaded the latest version of FF and opened Advanced palette editor. I also opened an indexed image and moved all the colors to the right side of the palette section, but I don't know how I can optimize it for it to display or creating it as a palette file for saving as .act. The palette section doesn't display an image or a palette.

malik, I will take a look at it later. Thanks for the suggestion though.