Problem with changing a model's color

[Veritas 117]

I have a spell that is channeled by one of my heroes that slowly reduces animation speed to 0, slowly changes their color to blue, and then locks them in ice completely frozen.

The problem is when the spell is over and I revert them to 100% of their original color they lose any custom color tinting I gave them in the object editor. I am really hoping I don't have to change the color of each unit in magos and then reimport them into the game with a bunch of different colors. I also thought about keeping track of colors in a hashtable but before I go through all that work I would like to know if there is a simpler way I may be overlooking.

Thanks in advance

 

[Pyrogasm]

You will have to keep track of the default RBG with a hashtable. Also don't forget to update it for any other permanent/temporary SetUnitVertexColor() calls you may have in your map that you will want to restore properly once the blue is done.

 

[Veritas 117]

I was afraid of that. It'll take awhile to go through all of the units and track their colors, but in the end I think it will be worth it.

Thanks

 

[Fruit Forest]

I have a spell that is channeled by one of my heroes that slowly reduces animation speed to 0, slowly changes their color to blue, and then locks them in ice completely frozen.

The problem is when the spell is over and I revert them to 100% of their original color they lose any custom color tinting I gave them in the object editor. I am really hoping I don't have to change the color of each unit in magos and then reimport them into the game with a bunch of different colors. I also thought about keeping track of colors in a hashtable but before I go through all that work I would like to know if there is a simpler way I may be overlooking.

Thanks in advance

You can go through point value of unit type.

 

[Veritas 117]

That is interesting. I hadn't considered something like that. It seems to work ok I would just have to set the point values to match the percentages of each color then right?

I'm not currently using point value for anything else so that might be worth it.

Of course now that I see this I'm trying to decide what else I could use point value for and just use a hashtable for each unit type's color lol

 

[Fruit Forest]

That is interesting. I hadn't considered something like that. It seems to work ok I would just have to set the point values to match the percentages of each color then right?

Yes you would. BUT the system doesn't want to use point values greater than 6 symbols. so 99% max only.

 

[Pyrogasm]

Yes you would. BUT the system doesn't want to use point values greater than 6 symbols. so 99% max only.

Scale your coloring function so 99 = 100% by doing something like: Rpercent = Rvalue/99