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See also [[555/565]], [[green spew]]. | See also [[555/565]], [[green spew]]. | ||
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[[Category:Terms]][[Category:Bugs]] | [[Category:Terms]][[Category:Bugs]] |
Latest revision as of 00:21, 16 May 2022
"Rainbow spew" is the Creatures term given to the effect of attempting to display a texture or sprite in the wrong color depth. For example, if a program tries to load a 24-bit bitmap as a 16-bit bitmap, it will read the first two bytes, instead of the first three, and attempt to display that color as the first pixel, then read
What is stored | 8 | C | C | 3 | 2 | A | 9 | 0 | 3 | 0 | C | 1 |
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What is displayed | 8 | C | C | 3 | 2 | A | 9 | 0 |
See also 555/565, green spew.