Alright, well it seems that Mac's have a completely different understanding with modding Cortex Command...

I have an Actor Mod that needs a professional's Skill and needs to be fixed, It's only the coding that need fixing right now.
But other than that I could probably handle.

Thank you, and please tell me what you found out what's wrong with it.

ok i managed to get it to work but...

You haven't put it into CC's pallete. If you don't know what I mean by that, a pallette is the colours the game recognises. if you try to put it into other colours, it does that.

There are a few ways to fix it, but I only know the MS Paint version, and considering you're on a mac, you're going to need to wait for someone else to help you.

My apologies, but don't panic, it's easily fixed.

You can try copying your sprite over a vanilla sprite, it works on MSPaint at least. Using colors pipetted from the palette may work too.

get GIMP.
load any other working CC sprite.
load your sprite.
go to the palette options (image->mode->indexed | custom palette | little arrow up top->import palette)
in the import palette options, go to "image" and select the _working_ sprite.
save your new palette as "CCPalette" or simmilar, and select it for your sprite.
save
done.
just fyi, this has nothing to do with "mac modding" you just ♥♥♥♥ up a little. thats alright, everyone does it, but myeh. modding is the same on all platforms, the apps you use are just different.

And for the record, the OS X version of Cortex Command does not interpret .ini files differently. This thread is just an example of a misinformed member.

well i used pixen but i will try gimp

aww i was so close...





Any Help?

Put it in the CC palette and it will work

did you do it as i specified? cause normal sprites dont do that.

It say's that it doesn't understand the palette format

EDIT: ok i managed to get it to load but some colors won't load and turn out grey when i place them and i tried to load the game and i get this message:

Abortion in file .\system\ContentFile.cpp, line 549, because:
Failed to load Datafile Object with following Path name:

MyActor

The Last frame has been dumped to 'abortscreen.bmp'


Please Help.

some colours dont load because they are not in the palette, which is the 255 colours that CC can use. that isnt many colours, so dont expect all your colours to work. welcome to spriting. im getting kind of exasperated here, can you tell?

maybe you didn`t understand... some of the colors IN the palette dont load and come out grey

You're not listening to him. Cortex Command uses 255 colours OF IT'S CHOICE!
If you try and use other colours, it ignores you.

You have to use it's chosen colours or your sprites come out weird.

I've attached the colours, and if you still don't get it, give up, you have no hope.

i'll see what i can do..