Subtitle colors?

[Lexx2k]

This is a bit of an odd question, but it is driving me insane for the past 4 days now ...

... How do the subtitle colors in the endgame slideshow images work? It doesn't make sense to me. I am trying to create a custom .pal file, but the colors never really match. It seems that index 255 is white = font. Though, that isn't the case in every ending slide image?

Here are two examples:

And here is my file:

^as you can see, the background color is not black, and the font blending is not working correctly.

Another example:

Basically, the only thing I found out is that index 255 is the flat font color, but as can be seen on my second image above (followers ending), color index 255 is not white there, which means this is not necessarily true.

Anyways... with 255 working as font color, what's missing is the actual background color, and the blending colors ... I have no idea on what index they are. They don't seem to be in order? Or does the game not check for the color index and instead picks the color that is the closest to what it needs?

Note:
As a random test, I made a screenshot of the working subtitles ingame, then copy&pasted the text part into my new image, and then converted it to indexed colors so that my new .pal file has the necessary colors. This experiment didn't work out ... which tells me that the colors must be on a specific index.

[FakelsHub]

From what I understand, the Subtitles should always be white. And the palette should always contain white and black color.
it's all very complicated with the font color.

[Lexx2k]

Latest repo version + the v13cave.int file from further above should work. The edited v13cave.int file will always trigger the expanded ending slides, which is where the subtitle bug is most noticeable.

[FakelsHub]

There is no bugs, you just don't know how to use the palette. ;p

[FakelsHub]

Latest repo version

I understand it, it is enough to replace FO1_BASE with a new one and not bother with any installation?

[FakelsHub]

Ok. I made it so in the script that it works when the new game start.

//      if (((global_var(1101) >= 2) andAlso (((global_var(1180) > 0) andAlso (global_var(1316) > 0)) andAlso (endgame_running == 0))) andAlso not(global_var(1618) > 0)) then begin
//         game_ui_disable;
call Endgame_Slides_Expanded_Debug();
//      end
//      else begin
//         override_map_start(136, 129, 0, 1);
//      end

I saw some problematic subtitles. Expect a lesson on preparing a palette. :)

[FakelsHub]

colors in the palette
1 the index must be black 0.0.0
255 the index must be white.
there is still a problem of mixing colors, probably the engine's algorite itself does not work well, or it lacks the required colors in the palette.
I suspect that the colors should be located from dark (0-index) to light (255-index) then mixing will probably work.

I will continue the tests later.

[egornovivan]

Turn off windows aero and check again

[Lexx2k]

I have aero and all that jazz disabled by default.
/Edit: Actually Win10 doesn't even have that.

[FakelsHub]

Use it: https://github.com/FakelsHub/FixPAL
This will fix your wrong palette.
Before creating a palette for your image, the palette should contain black and white color no matter where.
If the image does not have such colors, you must reserve two free spaces in order to manually assign these colors to them later.
Good Luck :)