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So how can i remove the flames of firebat?

Or change them to green, so it looks like gas/acid?

It's in the Firebat's attack animation:



Flamethrower actually has no graphics, the "flames" are overlaid over the Firebat in it's attack animation.

Thank u very much


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Btw How could i change the flame graphics to green, so it looks like gas? I've heard i need to change some numbers, but where?

To change the flame's color to green, just extract the frames in RetroGRP and edit them.

Sometimes that's true, but not always. In this case it's not.

The way that is done with the images that can be changed is through images.dat by changing the palette type. If you look in the Arsenal III editor you'll see there are palette types such as Normal, Blue 1, Blue 2, Orange and Green or something like that. If you select the Green one, sometimes the thing you're talking about turns green, but really it's a combination of many factors so it might not be able to be changed this way. Also, Arsenal III can't edit images.dat without corrupting the file, so you would need to use Arsenal Zero. This may or may not appeal to you.

However, like I said before, the flame graphics probably won't respond well if you try to change them to green using the images.dat method. That's because of the fact that, if you look at a graphic in a GRP viewer such as RetroGRP or ICE and it looks perfectly normal, then you need to use a graphic editor to change its colour. However, if the colours are all messed up, the graphic is obviously using special palettes, and so you can switch the special palette that is used in images.dat to change the colour of the graphic.

Yes the flame graphics are messed up. Ill try to edit the images.dat with Arsenal Zero.

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Do i have to cahnge something here? :

[228:Firebat]
Image=131
HP Bar Length=43
Unknown 3=1
Unknown 4=0
Selection Circle Image=2
Selection Circle Vertical Offset=192

That looks like sprites.dat, if you ask me....
Make sure you use the images.azf format file and the images.dat resource file.

I get a

"ERROR: Reached dat input file EOF before reda finished Broke reading Variable: Overlay 4"

What should i do?

unit\thingy\flamer.grp