O Ilusionista
Captain 80K
Yes, but I don't want to apply a tint only because, on this case, palettes are easier to handle. We would be change it's color and not only mixing the colors.Just check for a certain life threshold and then use timer to intermittently apply a tint. That's exactly how the hard coded dying effect works already, it just happens to use palettes.
There are other advantages: DYING respect freeze maps (it alternates from the desired map to freeze map if the entity is frozen). Tint, unless you check for the freezetime, will be applied over freeze map too.
Another thing is when you have a Dying palette where some parts of it will stay on the original color (for example, an armor), while all the rest will change its color. Tint will be applied over everything.