Altering Material colour RGB at runtime problems

Hi again <3

I've run into some problems trying to alter the "Main Color" RGB values at runtime. The script i wrote doesnt appear to behave as expected and i was wondering if someone could offer an explanation and/or a fix.

I have a plant model, i want to change its colour when it starts based on rgb values. When i try to pass values to the RGB, unity seems to be altering my values, but not in the alpha channel for some reason. when i pass it the value "255" all channels except alpha are filled with "65025" instead which corrupts the colour.

Here is my script

Code (CSharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2. using System.Collections;
3.  
4. public class plants2 : MonoBehaviour {
5.     public  byte redPigment=255;
6.     public  byte greenPigment=255;
7.     public  byte bluePigment=255;
8.  
9.     void Start () {
10.         Renderer theRenderer = GetComponent<Renderer>();
11.         Color TheHue = new Color (redPigment, greenPigment, bluePigment, 255);
12.         theRenderer.material.SetColor("_Color", TheHue);
13.     }
14.  
15.  
16. }
17.  

Why is it not passing my numbers correctly? i tried replacing redPigment etc with just the numbers, but it returns the same result. Oh and i tried using floats instead of bytes first, but that changes nothing too

 

Use floats in the Color constructor with 0 to 1 values

 

You beauty!!! Thanks, that was making me want to drink bleach.

 

Also for basic colors white,black, red green blue etc, Color has some static colors in it.

Like Color.blue

 

yeah, i knew about those from documentation. i specifically needed this code to be for RGB as its meant to simulate pigment drift in plants over several generations.

 

Oh good, just mentioned it since your example was using white.

 

yeah, the white is just to give the plant texture no pigment other than its base green as default. i figure chlorophyll doesnt change colour, at least not for the purposes of my sim anyway