Mod:Palette Files

This article documents the formats of COL files used in Redguard that contain color palette data.

The overall file format of a COL file is:

    dword FileSize               // Always 776?
    dword Unknown
    byte  PaletteData[768]       // 256*3

The palette data is 3 bytes of data for each of the 256 colors and is arranged like:

    byte Red
    byte Green
    byte Blue

Color values range from 0 to 255.