I've recently given terrain editing a try and came out with some promising results. The goal is to create doodads and eventually terrain types that represent protoss presence/architecture in the desert tileset.


However, it seems some pixels don't translate properly when in-game, and instead 'sparkle', oscillating between multiple colors in a rather distracting manner.

Example

After attempting to resolve this problem myself by setting the pixels to values that were accepted in other areas of the graphic, I recompiled the tileset and booted it up. This is what greeted me.



Is there a way to fix this? I'm honestly not even sure what's going on. I would think it's a palette issue but I'm exporting my image in photoshop using the desert palette, and it worked without issue for the pylon doodad. Any ideas?

It looks like I was able to resolve the issue with the help of farty. He sent me a desert-nc palette that I used with photoshop to avoid the sparkling issue, and no black boxes have appeared so far. Here is a link to the act palettes for all -nc tilesets in case anyone else wants to make custom terrain and runs into this problem.



Thanks farty!

FYI, what was happening here is there are certain indices in the terrain palettes where SC cycles through different colors. This is how it produces the "waves" in water terrain and the glow for lava.

Yeah, farty told me as much. Still puzzled about how that led to the black box issue.

I ran into the same issue a few years ago, but I can't remember what the cause was.