First off, hicolor is not a palette. It is a summary of all the combinations of red, green, and blue values ranging from 0-255 that can fit within 16 bits of information. That means you've got over 16 million colors at your disposal. Why you would ever want to _worry_ about this "palette" is beyond me... :)

Okay, now about this CHR issue:

The BMP should be saved in Windows format, 24-bit. It really doesn't matter that it's 24-bit because it still works in 16-bit. Don't ask me why :)

Make sure the BMP and the MAK file are in the same folder as chrmak16.

Run chrmak16 on the MAK file. I recommend doing this directly from DOS rather than dropping the MAK file onto the EXE. That's probably the reason it spits out your CHR in the windows folder, or wherever else it puts it.

Make absolutely sure that your image is arranged properly. A 1-pixel border around the whole image is a must, as well as a 1-pixel space _between_ every frame. All the frames must be exactly the same size (even 1 pixel can throw the whole thing off!) Check and double-check this.

Then check the values in your MAK file and make sure they match these numbers exactly. If everything is go then you should be good.

Also, make sure the movement scripts in the MAK file use capital letters. It seems that chrmak is case-sensitive and lower-case screws it all over.

I think that's it. It seems like all this should work. Check and double-check everything. If it still freaks out, post again with exact details of what you did and where everything is, and maybe I can help you more.

That is all.

--Invicticide
(Yes, I wrote this on auroraborealisis's PC. So kill me :)

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After looking at your BMP and MAK files, I believe I've isolated the problem, doctor! :)

There are actually a few little issues. The third row of your BMP is one pixel too short (only 28x61, rather than 28x62 like all the rest.) Every frame in this row needs an extra pixel. Otherwise your left and right animations will have white border lines popping up in them.

In your MAK file, your idle frames and animation scripts are not accessing frames based on 0. The first frame of your image is frame 0, not frame 1. All the frame definitions in your MAK file need to be decremented by 1 to fix this.

I've included the contents of the MAK file as I modified it. This MAK file compiled the character just fine on my PC, though her left/right animations had white border lines in them due to that "short row."
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bmpname JEAN.BMP
chrname JEAN.CHR

frame_w 28
frame_h 62

hot_x 0
hot_y 16
hot_w 16
hot_h 16

per_row 5
total_frames 20

lidle 15
ridle 10
uidle 5
didle 0

lscript F15
rscript F10
uscript F5
dscript F0W10F1W10F2W10F1W10F0W10F3W10F4W10F3W10
end
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Those were the only two issues I found. BTW, you may notice I changed your movement scripts. This was mostly my own personal taste, since I found it kinda pointless to process the same frames over and over for every direction, plus I'm lazy and didn't want to type new scripts :)

The standard Verge walking script calls frames in this order: 01210343 (looping) in case you were wondering. I don't know if this is the _best_ script for your character... everyone's animation style is different. Just a thought.

BTW, very nice character! I like much.

That is all.

--Invicticide

P.S. If this doesn't work, take a sledgehammer to your computer and a credit card to your local CompUSA :)

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still comes out as crazy colored lines. is there any other scripting required to get hicolor chrs running other than "hicolor" in user.cfg? if not, it must be this computer... though it can run all the latest 3D games... weird

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