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in SF it looks a very pleasant green:

but in SC:


??? weird, i think this has been found before?

EGAD MY EYES!

It's because SF doesn't inerpret colors directly from SC.
I mean, everything above 15 looks black in SF...

>> STARFORNGE!

Color numbers above 11 are undefined in Starcraft, although SF makes it look like the first 16 are.

Umm that happens, if color is beyond 11.

A buffer overflow. Lemme explain:

It loads into memory 12 colors. After those 12 colors it loads another unrelated data.
When it has to display color 4 it goes to the memory place where the first color is stored, and counts 4 colors more.
If it tries to display color 15 it'll go to that place and count 15 colors more, so it will read wrong data thinking that it is a color.

Result: An unpredictable color will be shown that might even change when you do something in the map.

cool. but shouldnt it jsut restart the list? so if you go to 15, it should go back to 3...
anyways, if i can find the things after the colors and change it, the color might change?

I already saw a few maps with that, that a color changes when you kills an unit or something like that.

In my crystal cannon defense map sprites will blink colors as units are killed. It's a pretty cool effect to simulate the cannons firing, but Its too bad I cannot control them the way I have my map setup.

You should look around the forums before you post something like this. There's already a thread (a recent one) about changing colors. And there is my old thread about changing colors. Just a thought you know so the forums dont get clogged.