changing the color of active objects?

[ZayLong]

im working on an avatar creator for players. and i want them to be able to pick what color theyd like their hair, clothes, etc.

im wondering if theres an extension/widget that allows me to do this without you know, actually manually creating an instance of each hair style and article of clothing in each selectable color.

please n thanks for a prompt reply.

[LB]

Can't you just have a different object for the diffrent body parts, and have the different colors/styles be different animations? Really if you want this you're in for a lot of work. There isn't an extension or widget because the systems people need are all so different.

[ZayLong]

yes i guess ill be forced to do that, which is gonna be a pain in the butt. seeing as theres gonna be animations with it thanks though.

[RayMarble]

Shouldn't one of the HWA shaders be able to handle this?

[BrashMonkey]

You can also use the replace color comand, but this too is a lot of work and is best used with indexed color art (not 24 bit photoshop stuff)

[PandaExplosion]

Hope this helps

http://www.clickteam.com/epicenter/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Main=26878&Number=1970 31#Post197031

Any doubt you can ask me!

[RayMarble]

Just found this in the HWA part of the forum:

Maggott: I have a project that I was trying to write my own pixel shader for, but I haven't been able to get it to work yet. It's pretty simple--it just needs to replace certain colors with other colors.

Specifically, the game I'm working on recolors the sprites, and each sprite can have up to 3 custom colors. That is accomplished by replacing all of the pure yellow, cyan, and magenta hues.

Sphax: have a look to the example posted. You'll see that I've already done a pixel shader to do exactly what you want.

More precisely, I've done:
- Colorize Blue
- Colorize Cyan
- Colorize Green
- Colorize Grey
- Colorize Magenta
- Colorize RGB
- Colorize RGBYCM
- Colorize WRGB (W=Grey)

I think there is more than needed to do what you want

Sounds like it should do the job.