'Has no palette'

[Angelglory]

I've been trying to make a ZSS texture, but every time I go about creating the new .pcs & .pac with ASH, I get this.


Any ideas or helpful tips?

[mnsg]

What you have there is an indexed texture. Any texture that has a +1 or a +2 on its file name requires an indexed palette.

Most indexed textures have to be indexed through Photoshop, especially those that use a small palette.

To index a texture in Photoshop, go to Image, then Mode, and then choose Indexed Color....



Looking at the above image, set the palette to Local (Perceptual), and then set the maximum number of colors for the texture.

Regarding transparency, all +1 textures have no transparency, so transparency has to be disabled for those textures.

For the +2 textures, however, they can have transparency. If a +2 texture has any transparent parts, enable the transparency when indexing the texture.

For any +2 texture that has transparency, fill in the transparent areas with the color magenta (#ff00ff) before indexing the texture.

On a side note, magenta represents transparency ONLY for the +2 textures. For the normal textures, you need to mess with the Alpha Channel in order to choose the spots that you want transparent.

[Angelglory]

Okay, thanks for the help, problem resolved. (b'--')b

[picano]

mnsg, that is really a great explanation.

*Links directly to post from FAQ*

[VILE]

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[dally]

i tried this, it sill didnt work...

[Vyse]

Then you did it wrong.

Sorry, there's simply no other explanation.

Make sure, when you're saving, that you're saving it as a tga and that you're not changing the filename.