Really weird graphics offsets bug

[VikingBoyBilly]

In one of my player classes, the offsets for the A frame of the sprite isn't right. It makes the sprite go underground, making it invisible. I know it's not the graphics offsets themselves, those are normal. Replacing the A frame of the sprite with any other graphic results in this happening. I have another player class where this problem doesn't occur, so why only this one? My guess is it's a decorate thing, but it must be the most obscure error ever.

I'll be back with more details if there isn't an obvious solution to this.

[Enjay]

I suspect that you haven't given enough information in your post. The best thing would be if you could upload a WAD/PK3 with your player graphics and DECORATE code.

[VikingBoyBilly]

I renamed the sprites and everything was good. My guess is the name "SQR_A*" is taken by another thing, that's the sprite name that was giving the problem (seriously, name any sprite that and you'll see what happens).

To save this thread though, I noticed that any player class with a translatable color range gets forced into a 256 color pallette, even when it's a .png. Is there any way to get around this? I'd guess not, except to remove color translation from the player class.

[Enjay]

My guess is the name "SQR_A*" is taken by another thing, that's the sprite name that was giving the problem (seriously, name any sprite that and you'll see what happens).

I'm not seeing that myself. I made a WAD where I renamed all the "POSS" sprites to "SQR_" and then made a decorate for them to replace the regular Zombieman and the imp and the sprites worked exactly as I would expect them to (ie, all sprites were properly aligned).

[edit] Oh, and from memory, translations require palette indices so they cannot work on true colour images and will force such images into 256 colours. [/edit]

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http://forum.drdteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=4689

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[Gez]

Closed for lack of follow-up.