I used SCMDraft2 0.8 on my 32-bit Windows XP machine and 64-bit Vista machine. The same map used a Jungle tileset. I used color 47 in each case.

XP: Black smooth on units. Shows as black on minimap and leaderboard.
Vista: What's this garbled lemon-lime color!? Shows as black on minimap and blank on leaderboard.

Is there a stable black color (units and minimap) on a Jungle tileset for all operating systems? If so, what?

For black, I usually use 155. I don't have vista so can't test if it's the same.

64 shows up as actual black on the leaderboard on most tilesets. Its what i use. That or 55.

Despite the awesomeness of extended colors, you have to remember that they're actually a buffer overflow. It's unlikely that they'll crash mac users, but it'll look a lot different for them.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Jan 31 2010, 2:52 am by NudeRaider. Reason: fix'd

I'm using 136 for P8 on Ashworld on windows 7 x64, and it shows black in-game and on the minimap, although blank on the leaderboard (not a problem for me, as it is a CPU player anyway).

I got that number out of a thread where someone wanted a black colour, so it is likely to be fairly stable across other tilesets and OS combinations? I can't get the P colour program to work on my computer (haven't tried particularly hard).

@Lan: I'm using PColor 1.1 on MSWinXPProSP2, and I get a palette that's almost black, save for two colors. One is a light grey, the other a pulsing/glowing slightly-dark red. Speckles appear on most units because of this. 149 is a 90%-perfect black, save for a shade of brown in the palette. Same deal for 160, but red, and the red's in a color that isn't used as often.

That too unstable?

Since it is a buffer overflow it just uses memory meant for other data. That is why it depends on the OS, OS version, machine architecture, and maybe even which applications were in memory before starcraft was started,

Right, I guess it's back to brown for my P8 CPU then. I don't want to use any buffer overflow or memory conditions in my map at all, so that it'll work on any new versions of SC, and on every platform without issues.

Extended colors don't cause issues other than looking different on different machines. And usually not by much.

Btw. what Samsizzle suggested is really great. I use #64 for all my maps. It's actually a very dark purple (looks black if you have no true black to compare it with) and it's pure in color. So there will be no weird specks or anything. And I've yet to see a tileset/OS not show it as black.

#65 crashed Ciara's mac when she tried to look at it.

Apparently some colors do cause crashes...