Water elemental vertex coloring fixed?!

[Abelhawk]

I remember when I first got Warcraft III, I was frustrated and confused that the Water Elemental unit's red vertex coloring value only worked on its bracers for some reason—If you changed the red value to 0, it would just change its bracers black if you were Player 1 (Red). But I tested it today and realized that that problem no longer exists. You can tint the entire elemental red with no problem! There is still a weird issue where the bracers directly reflect the vertex coloring values (i.e., if you're player blue and set the blue values to 0, it'll be a greenish yellow elemental with black bracers, but player red would have the red bracers visible), but the water elemental itself is affected by red now.

Is this something with one of the new patches? Or am I just insane with false memories? Does anyone else remember that weird issue and know when it was fixed?

 

[Kaijyuu]

I don't remember either way about the water elemental, but something changing isn't impossible. They updated the graphics engine to be a bit more modern, and it may have fixed strange bugs like that (and probably introduced some new ones).

 

[Dr Super Good]

Vertex colour multiplies the texture by the specified fraction. As such it will never work well on Water Elementals as they are mostly blue. Not sure how it affects blending.