[FreeSpaceFreak]

Bright might try to repallettize them. Just convert with IrfanView.

Actually you can tell Bright to use a palette from an existing PCX file. Mainly convenient for head ANIs (IMO), which have more than five frames. For shield icons, I just use GIMP - before saving as PCX, set the image mode to "Indexed" and select the FS HUD palette (attached), uncheck "Remove unused colours".

The palette I obtained from a HUD ANI a while ago; drop into C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\.gimp-2.<#>\palettes, start up GIMP and it should work.

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[Black Wolf]

Anyone who uses "show-ship" or that godawful target looking thing (you know, with the gradiated ball in the middle) for their ships shield icon deserves corporal punishment. They're both ugly as sin, and, despite mjn.mixaels issues, shield anis really are easy to make.

[Droid803]

but i want my full color
i refuse to believe that huds are incapable of rendering color 300 years in the future it kills suspension of disbelief and breaks immersion

i also want my png headanis.

i spent hours making them when they said it worked but it still doesn't TT

[mjn.mixael]

Anyone who uses "show-ship" or that godawful target looking thing (you know, with the gradiated ball in the middle) for their ships shield icon deserves corporal punishment. They're both ugly as sin, and, despite mjn.mixaels issues, shield anis really are easy to make.

Yeah my issues were unknowingly self-inflicted... my first iteration of ANIs worked like a charm in that they all showed up in-game... they just didn't seem to work when hit.

At one point I went to watch TV and take a break. I sat down on the couch and it dawned on me instantly that the POFs didn't have shield meshes. So I promptly got up and checked.. sure enough, that was the problem. 

The moral of the story is "do not mod on only 2 hours of sleep" (Zacam excluded).

[Black Wolf]

but i want my full color
i refuse to believe that huds are incapable of rendering color 300 years in the future it kills suspension of disbelief and breaks immersion

i also want my png headanis.

i spent hours making them when they said it worked but it still doesn't TT

Eh, at scales that small, the colour is distracting IMO. The greyscale looks good, and is nice and simple. Plus you have full colour in the target box. The system is a good one.