when i make a wireframe, the colours that i put were all showing. this never happened unit today

Make sure you use the right palette and colors. Some palettes (most unit palettes for example) have duplicates of the wireframe colors, the ones further in the palette are the correct ones, or use a wireframe.pal.

I believe the two later sets in the unit.pal work. (I use the second to last one and it works fine).

Well different palettes could have some different colors, but its the index in the palette that is special, not the color. Wireframe specific palettes will have every color set to black except the index's that are used for the wireframe effect.

ok?
so which one do i use for zerg
and which one i use for terran/protoss?

All races use the same ones. Decompile a frame from the original wireframe GRP and see which index's the colors use, im not sure which are the ones and can't check where i am.

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problem fixed

BAM! PIN THIS PLEASE SO I DON'T SEE ANOTHER WIREFRAM QUESTION ON THIS FORUM EVER AGAIN.

The wire frame colors arent exactly the same for all races, the orange color is different for sure. The terran orange, apears green when it is full health, the zerg orange (darker) is orange when the unit is full health. (I was just working on that stuff

I'll just copy the image and make the wireframe area bigger. then paste the image and draw out the wireframe. for the zerg, i use gimp because of the colour selector.

and don't say "well why didn't you do that before and not post this topic" well i found out that one of my pallets I've used the colours were changed, so I've downloaded the PalPack and used them instead

I was talking about each race uses the same colors (index's) in the palette, not the colors they become in game.