Revert colours after RGB colour change?

[Nick]

Hello!

After using the RGB colour change feature at runtime (where you set a specific RGB colour to a new one, to change the colour of an active object), is there any way to revert the object back to it's original colours?

[maVado]

You could save the original color codes in the alterable values in the object?

[Nick]

That's my current solution, but the problem with that is:

If we have two colours in an object:
255,0,0
0,0,255

And then we set 255,0,0 to 0,0,255, the entire object becomes blue, there is no way to distinguish between the two colours which existed in the first place.

[BrashMonkey]

Just use a color that different by 1, it will look exactly the same to the human eye, but will allow the revert. in your example, make the color 0,1,255 or 0,0,254. that way its still numerically different to 0,0,255 and you can still control them seperately.

[Nick]

I tried that too, but there are so many different colours in the image that eventually there's a chance two colours will 'overlap'.

But i guess that's a chance i'm just going to have to live with.

[00J]

That's why you've got to pre-limit the color types that you want the allow the user to use.

In Roller Coaster Tycoon, Chris Sawyer did this. I think he used the Primary colors... Not all 16mil. [laugh]