Sprites with black spots

[CeeJay]

When using graphics (sprites) with their own custom palettes (not PNG images but DOOM gfx with custom game palette) I get strange black spots on some images, it seems to be related to a single color getting replaced with a black one or something. This issue has been around for a while.

EDIT:

You can see stray black and blue pixels on the sprite. The sprite itself does not look like that, it's just in-game.

[Corbachu]

Try running this again, but with the command line switch "-modpallete", and see if the black spots come back.

[CeeJay]

Made no difference. Worth mentioning that I'm using two seperate WADs, one with the custom palette and one with none (default). I would use PNGs instead but the grab feature appears to be broken (I use SLADE to offset the images, 3DGE seems to just ignore it) and I would rather not resort to having to manually offset every single sprite with IMAGES.DDF.

[Corbachu]

Made no difference. Worth mentioning that I'm using two seperate WADs, one with the custom palette and one with none (default). I would use PNGs instead but the grab feature appears to be broken (I use SLADE to offset the images, 3DGE seems to just ignore it) and I would rather not resort to having to manually offset every single sprite with IMAGES.DDF.

Load your mod with the grab offsets again. If you minimize 3DGE completely, and look at the console window (the one that looks like a DOS prompt), you should see something like this:

"Got grAb struct: [nameofimage], X, Y

If you can copy that from the console window and paste it here I can track down your issues. Because I use grAb in a few places, and I get the proper offsets applied. Are you using the latest
Devbuild?

But please try and see if you can do that for me, that way I can be sure grAb is being read correctly in your mod.

[Marscaleb]

I have the same issue. I was posting about it here: http://www.tdgmods.net/smf/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=2601
Though I got torn away from 3DGE for a while and never went back and replied on that thread. Plus I think at the time I was guessing this -modpallet command was a new addition and I didn't have the latest version, since it did nothing. But I've tried it with the dev build and it still does nothing.

The problem is index 247, which is a pure black in the original Doom pallette. For some reason, even though 3DGE loads a new custom palette correctly for 255 of the colors, it always keeps 247 as a pure black, just like it is in Doom.

[Corbachu]

I thought about disabling the hardcode and just see what happens. Once I do that, I'll upload that EXE in this thread.

I don't remember why it was clamped to that, though. .

[Corbachu]

Just an update, I'll be pushing a build that fixes this behavior with a CVAR for testing

[CeeJay]

Hooray!

Happy to see this issue resolved at long last.

[Corbachu]

Still encountering the issue, but I have a good idea about what might be happening.

Can someone send me a test WAD/PK3 that shows it clearly visible? Want to fix it in DOOM before ROTT.

[Corbachu]

Is this still an issue with the recent builds?