Those weird guards

[4DPlayer]

I've heard about those weird guards in 4DPrince nd how the colors were generated by the game from trashed memory.
viewtopic.php?f=112&t=3571
Somehow, I got those colors myself when I was experimenting with some level editing.
It's sort of a long story.
Ok, first I decided to get a CusPop with Level 3 Guard Type as GUARD.
Then, instead of editing the level with apoplexy 3.6, I decided to dig out Apoplexy 1.2b.
Now, in 1.2b, changes made with the exe aren't recognized, so it still shows the skeleton sprites as the only guard option for level 3.

I thought "what's the harm" in adding them?
And then the game generated these guys:

Pretty cool that I sort of got these colors myself. I could give you guys my Levels.DAT to examine if you want.
I also decided to experiment with how these colors would match on all the GAURD.DAT files available.

Spoiler: show

[David]

Pretty cool that I sort of got these colors myself.

The editor simply kept the original guard color. In the original level 3 it's 0xFF in all rooms.

Here's a neat trick: The colors will be different if you switch to different sound modes with the stdsnd or the adlib command-line parameters.
(At least this is what happens in PoP4D, but I guess the same will happen on your level.)
I've mentioned this briefly here: viewtopic.php?p=15833#p15833

[4DPlayer]

Here's a neat trick: The colors will be different if you switch to different sound modes with the stdsnd or the adlib command-line parameters.
(At least this is what happens in PoP4D, but I guess the same will happen on your level.)
I've mentioned this briefly here: viewtopic.php?p=15833#p15833

Ooh.. Ahh...