BILBOBScene.res FRML #0 · SAS #1 · 17 frames
Characters & Mobs
Every FRML animation-frame resource from AAnims.res (battle scenes) and
BScene.res (landscape views), decoded by src/assets/formats/frml.ts and
rendered by tools/wime/build-assets.ts’s buildViewerFrmls(). Six of these
19 resources are 16-colour (4-bitplane) sprites that the original game
recolors per character at render time by choosing which half of the 32-colour
scene palette is active — the rest are already full 32-colour art with no
runtime recoloring. See docs/wime/amiga/frml-colour-variants.md in the main
repo (not part of this site) for the full, disassembly-confirmed mechanism —
that document is this page’s source for every character/entity attribution
below.
Known Characters
Section titled “Known Characters”Every named character (or named troop type) the game recolors per-entity via
the 5th-bitplane mechanism above, rendered here with its real, correct
color already applied — no raw SAS index or palette-half picking needed.
Generated by tools/wime/build-assets.ts’s buildFrmlCharacters(), which
groups entities.json by race (selects the FRML) and spriteAnimationSet
(selects the color, via the same 48-entry mode table documented above),
applying the permutation with tools/wime/frml-recolor.ts.
Each card plays only its idle/walk loop — not the full mixed
idle+attack+death frame range, and with no segment picker to switch away
from it. That’s a deliberate choice for WIME specifically: unlike Spirit of
Excalibur (where every segment boundary is confirmed by tracing a real
bytecode VM), WIME’s own attack/death boundaries are a render-derived
best-effort fallback rather than a code-level table (see
docs/wime/amiga/frml-colour-variants.md § “Animation-frame segmentation”),
so this page shows the one segment confirmed enough to be worth looking at
on repeat.
Three cards — Elrond, Galadriel and Tom Bombadil — are different in
kind: their race values (80/81/82) have no FRML resource at all in this
game, so there’s no animation and no recolor step to apply. Each is instead a
single static portrait IMAG in BScene.res whose id equals its own race
value (IMAG #80/#81/#82), shown here as a one-frame “animation.” See
docs/wime/amiga/frml-colour-variants.md § “race → FRML resource” for the
evidence (numeric id correspondence plus a rendered visual match — a robed
elf-lord, a flowing-robed elf-queen, and a hatted, dancing figure).
Also here: every other named/attributed FRML that isn’t recolored — orcs, wolves, trolls, Gollum, cavalry, Ents, spiders, Balrogs, and a few more — already full 32-colour art with one fixed render for everyone, no per-entity color step. They’re grouped with the real recolored heroes because they’re still a known, named entity with real animation frames; only the palette mechanism differs.
PIPPINBScene.res FRML #0 · SAS #3 · 17 frames
FRODOBScene.res FRML #0 · SAS #5 · 17 frames
SAM / a hobbitBScene.res FRML #0 · SAS #11 · 17 frames
MERRYBScene.res FRML #0 · SAS #12 · 17 frames
LEGOLASBScene.res FRML #1 · SAS #2 · 16 frames
CELEBORN / elven guardsBScene.res FRML #1 · SAS #4 · 16 frames
GLORFINDEL / elvesBScene.res FRML #1 · SAS #6 · 16 frames
elves / an elfBScene.res FRML #1 · SAS #7 · 16 frames
THRANDUILBScene.res FRML #1 · SAS #8 · 16 frames
SouthronsBScene.res FRML #2 · SAS #4 · 17 frames
BalchothBScene.res FRML #2 · SAS #10 · 17 frames
Rangers / infantry / a Ranger / a wanderer +1 moreBScene.res FRML #2 · SAS #11 · 17 frames
SouthronsBScene.res FRML #2 · SAS #13 · 17 frames
ARAGORNBScene.res FRML #2 · SAS #14 · 17 frames
BRANDBScene.res FRML #2 · SAS #16 · 17 frames
DENETHORBScene.res FRML #2 · SAS #19 · 17 frames
FARAMIR / HIRLUINBScene.res FRML #2 · SAS #20 · 17 frames
lt. infantryBScene.res FRML #2 · SAS #22 · 17 frames
BOROMIR / infantryBScene.res FRML #2 · SAS #24 · 17 frames
GIMLIBScene.res FRML #3 · SAS #4 · 17 frames
DAINBScene.res FRML #3 · SAS #5 · 17 frames
dwarvesBScene.res FRML #3 · SAS #6 · 17 frames
dwarves / a dwarfBScene.res FRML #3 · SAS #13 · 17 frames
GANDALFBScene.res FRML #4 · SAS #4 · 18 frames
SARUMAN / an old manBScene.res FRML #4 · SAS #5 · 18 frames
GANDALF'BScene.res FRML #4 · SAS #6 · 18 frames
RADAGASTBScene.res FRML #4 · SAS #9 · 18 frames
GOTHMOG / SAURON / the NAZGUL LORD / the 2nd NAZGUL +7 moreBScene.res FRML #8 · SAS #1 · 14 frames
a wightBScene.res FRML #8 · SAS #3 · 14 frames
Dead MenBScene.res FRML #8 · SAS #5 · 14 frames
ELROND / CIRDANBScene.res IMAG #80 · static portrait, no recolor
GALADRIELBScene.res IMAG #81 · static portrait, no recolor
TOM BOMBADILBScene.res IMAG #82 · static portrait, no recolor
Ents (Treebeard, huorns)aanims FRML #7 · 10 frames
Spiders (Shelob, generic)aanims FRML #11 · 15 frames
Balrogsaanims FRML #12 · 6 frames
Dunlendings, Balchoth, Wainriders, Easterlingsaanims FRML #15 · 17 frames
Men-at-armsaanims FRML #14 · 17 frames
GollumBScene.res FRML #5 · 19 frames
OrcsBScene.res FRML #6 · 17 frames
TrollsBScene.res FRML #9 · 15 frames
CavalryBScene.res FRML #13 · 8 frames
WolvesBScene.res FRML #10 · 14 frames
Death animation (shared across magic entities)BScene.res FRML #16 · 5 frames
FireballBScene.res FRML #18 · 5 frames
CampfireBScene.res FRML #19 · 4 frames
Other Palette Variants (unused by any named entity)
Section titled “Other Palette Variants (unused by any named entity)”The 48-entry mode table above has far more slots than the ~20 SAS values
entities.json’s 196 records actually exercise (see
docs/wime/amiga/frml-colour-variants.md § “SAS → character mapping”) — up
to 8 of the remaining, never-used indices per FRML (capped below index 33;
see tools/wime/build-assets.ts’s buildUnusedFrmlVariants()) are shown
here purely as an illustration of what else this recolor mechanism can
produce. None of these combinations is claimed to appear anywhere in the
shipped game — unlike every card above, which is a real, in-game recolor.
BScene.res FRML #0 — Hobbits — Frodo, Sam, Merry, Pippin, Bilbo
Mode-table indices shown: 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13.
BScene.res FRML #1 — Elves — Legolas, Celeborn, Thranduil
Mode-table indices shown: 1, 3, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.
BScene.res FRML #2 — Men — Aragorn, Boromir, Faramir, Denethor, Brand
Mode-table indices shown: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
BScene.res FRML #3 — Dwarves — Gimli, Dain
Mode-table indices shown: 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.
BScene.res FRML #4 — Wizards — Gandalf, Gandalf the White, Radagast, Saruman
Mode-table indices shown: 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12.
BScene.res FRML #8 — Wraiths — the nine Nazgûl, Sauron, wights
Mode-table indices shown: 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.
All Palette/Debug Variants
Section titled “All Palette/Debug Variants”The 6 recolorable FRML resources (BScene.res #0–#4, #8), decoded by
src/assets/formats/frml.ts and rendered by
tools/wime/build-assets.ts’s buildViewerFrmls(). Every real character
recolor is already shown above, and the raw bitplane debug renders this
section used to show turned out to add nothing a reader needs — so this is
now just the reference list itself (resource id, source file, bitplane depth,
frame count).
BScene.res FRML #0
Hobbits — Frodo, Sam, Merry, Pippin, Bilbo (12×28, race 0)
BScene.res FRML #1
Elves — Legolas, Celeborn, Thranduil (13×44, race 1)
BScene.res FRML #2
Men — Aragorn, Boromir, Faramir, Denethor, Brand (15×43, race 2)
BScene.res FRML #3
Dwarves — Gimli, Dain (25×35, race 3)
BScene.res FRML #4
Wizards — Gandalf, Gandalf the White, Radagast, Saruman (28×52, race 4)
BScene.res FRML #8
Wraiths — the nine Nazgûl, Sauron, wights (43×46, race 8)