Setting Actor Tint Color

[Jaijaibinx]

How would i set the tint of an actor to a player color. say for example:

event - unit enters region
actor - set tint color to (player color of (owner of triggering unit))

any ideas?

 

[Dr Super Good]

You could probably do it via actor messages to the main actor of the unit. I am still not too sure if you can issue all actor actions but even if you can not you just need to hard code some events for the actor that on a certain message change it to a certain colour.

You will also need some sort of map to convert color to tint commands. Perhapse map these commands to the player directly even as you could then use an array lookup.

 

[Jaijaibinx]

thanks for the advice, ive sorted it, but im not sure if its the best way, can anyone let me know if theres any faults

• Variable - Set Color = (Color((Current player (Owner of Temp Unit 2) color)))
  • General - Custom Script: ActorSend(DataTableGetActor(true, ("PlayerMarine" + FixedToString(UnitGetCustomValue(lv_tempUnit2, 5), c_fixedPrecisionAny))), ("SetTintColor " + libNtve_gf_ConvertColorToString(lv_color)));

 

[Dr Super Good]

You probably just want to store the unit and then from the unit's actorscope gets it's main actor. This would save using the datatable and a custom value on the unit making it easer to manage (reduces coupling to non actor systems). It probably would also be faster.