A lightly armored zombie actor without a jetpack. I tried it myself but all I get is errors... I truely suck.

P.S. please just turn it into its own mod folder so I can just drag and drop the folder into cortex command

I tried making a zombie sprite from scratch, but for some reason the colours were weird and it was incased in white blocks (Yes I used the Pallete) . I have windows vista. Then I decided to just tweak the settings of the zombie (which worked) but when I tried to add basicly a copy and paste of the coalition body armor into the INI all I could get is errors. Im not sure how to specify which zombie actor is equiped with the armour... or maybe im doing it all wrong... ill upload a link in a bit.

You can ask any modder if they could make the palette index for the sprites, but if you're going to keep modding, you'll have to learn how to do it yourself. When I first noticed this problem myself, I used copies of ready-made sprites of other things, and just edited those (because they have the palette index ready), until I learned how to apply the palette on my computer.

Try copying the zombie sprite files and editing them with the palette colors. I did that for some time. It works though.

The error with the body armor is probably the fact that the game won't read the Coalition.rte before reading Base.rte, so it doesn't find the armor piece. (this is, of course, if you're modifying the Base.rte's zombies) You could try making a separate .rte file, and take a look what a basic .rte consist of (most importantly an index.ini). This could very well be the start of your first working mod.

I hope this helps!

Use a program called Gimp to make sprites, that program is the best, it can use your palette to make yourself free to pick every color available in it.