Discussion Suggestion: Changing Color for all selected assets. (not just one by one)

[MilesThatch]

So I realized (wolf told me) that you can change the color of the asset on an asset layer by double clicking it. I can actually change the color and value of an asset to make it Lighter or Darker or even change the color. This means that I don't have to design 5 (Green, Yellow (dead plant), teal (same plant sprite different color for variety) etc) versions of the same sprite with a different color, brightness which would take up texture space, but instead I can make one assets that's in Gray-scale and assign as color to it via the Room Editor. This is FANTASTIC, I love the feature but it falls short right now. what happens when you've populated your level foliage (50 - 100 assets) and now you need to just slightly nudge the brightness of the assets to fit the scenery. (my foloage stood out bit too much from the background, which is where @Fel666 told me about the brightness option in the instance properties) Worked wonders but now I've got a about 70 other instances, each one in need to be nudged those two color value slots over. Why can't you select all the assets on that layer and globally set the color value for All of them? You already have a script that move all selected instance, that script HAS to itterate between each of the selected assets to move them, why not use the same script for setting the color properties of all selected assets?

 

[MilesThatch]

Working on level creation. Have lots of foliage assets spread out throughout the level. After running the game I see that the assets could really use a tone down in the color value. With a good 50 scattered foliage assets, I could seriously use this right about now.

so bump

 

[GMWolf]

I totally agree this would be great! When multiple items are selected, there should be a way to modify all their attributes at once (apart from those that are intrinsically unique, like ids)

 

[gnysek]

+100. It should be possible to set color/scale/etc. on several assets at once in room editor.

 

[MilesThatch]

Alright, I'm gonna bump it one last time, to see if any more peeps would like to put their two cents in.
And tag @Mike in for good measure.

 

[Guest User]

would it actually be faster and/or more efficient to have every instance altering it's color every draw step (unless it's done once upon creation, i'm not sure!) than to use a surface or shader to change them?

 

[gnysek]

We talking more about case, when you have 100 (same) assets and want to change 20 to red, 10 to blue and 7 to green, leaving rest untouched.

 

[GMWolf]

would it actually be faster and/or more efficient to have every instance altering it's color every draw step (unless it's done once upon creation, i'm not sure!) than to use a surface or shader to change them?

Yeah it would. Remember that when drawing anything, you are also sending colour information to blend it with.
No sense in first blending with white, to then blend it with another colour!

Not to mention surfaces use a ton of memory. Avoid them at all cost!

 

[Guest User]

We talking more about case, when you have 100 (same) assets and want to change 20 to red, 10 to blue and 7 to green, leaving rest untouched.

sense in first blending with white, to then blend it with another colour!

riiiiight, and i was only thinking of changing the color of the whole layer. like a layer_set_blend() function in code or something.

would certainly be useful then. i feel like it'd be a good idea to include tiles as well tbut i'm not so sure that's possible. and i guess you could always just make more tiles. o:

 

[GMWolf]

riiiiight, and i was only thinking of changing the color of the whole layer. like a layer_set_blend() function in code or something.

would certainly be useful then. i feel like it'd be a good idea to include tiles as well tbut i'm not so sure that's possible. and i guess you could always just make more tiles. o:

Tiles really should be possible, unless the decided to remove the colour attribute from the vertex data...

 

[gnysek]

riiiiight, and i was only thinking of changing the color of the whole layer. like a layer_set_blend() function in code or something.

would certainly be useful then. i feel like it'd be a good idea to include tiles as well tbut i'm not so sure that's possible. and i guess you could always just make more tiles. o:

layer_script_begin ?

 

[MilesThatch]

Just bumping this in light of the New Object Variables being added.