Ink effects & the event editor

Is there any way to get the value of an ink effect besides semi-transparency? I made some events to get an active object to gradually increase/decrease ink effect to create a "glowing" effect, but transparency wont cut it. If there isn't a way for ink effects, what about getting values for a certain color? Everytime I try the "replace color" action nothing happens. I also tried the colorizer extension but the only threshold it has (to my knowledge) is a square or rectangle, but I need this to only effect the active object, nothing around it. Thanks for any help.

Um, what? Semi-transparency is the only effect that uses a parameter. Full stop. :P

Replacing colors should work... try to use "Your active->Get RGB at"
Bye the way, that action modifys all actives. You can't change the colors of a single one (unfortunately).

Well that definately changes the color, but only the transparent square around the active. And I made a value for the color so it would fade but that didn't work.

For Get RGB At you need to enter the coordinates of the pixel you want to retrieve, otherwise it will just pick 0,0,0. I can't remember if it was global or local coordinates though...

Well yeah, you have to set the coordinates in order for it to work, but that still only makes the transparent change color.

If it changes the transparent color you didn't get the source color right.

Yeah, create an active, don't change the animation of it, and try to replace "RGB at 16,16" with a color.
You propably tried to access a point with the transparent colour of one out of bounds.

Alright, thats a bit closer but now its only changing the color in a small portion of the Active, as if you opened the Image on paint and used the fill tool to get one spot.

I figure what I should do is make a clone of the active, and in the events make it solid blue, then make it fade in and out, and set position to 0,0 of active.

So how do I get the clone to be 1 solid color? The active I'm using has over 100 frames and a ton of different animations and directions so theres no way im opening paint and changing them all blue and re-loading all of them lol