Color Palette - Manage all your color palettes directly inside Unity!

Hi there!

Just wanted to ask if this asset will ever support TextMeshPro? (More precisely, the vertex colour of the text, and the selection colour of the input field.)
If not, I'll just write my custom handler, but I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people use it.

Best Regards,
Kristina

 

Hello!

Sorry but no, it's not planned to support TextMeshPro for now :/
But it should be pretty easy to do, you would just need to update the updateColor method of ColorPalette/Runtime/ColorPaletteObjects.cs, and add something like :

Code (CSharp):

1. else if (this.GetComponent<textMeshProComponent>() != null)
2. {
3.     this.GetComponent<textMeshProComponent>().vertexColour = color;
4.     setDirty();
5. }

I don't know anything about TextMeshPro, so everything I wrote here is just an example

 

Hi PygmyMonkey, your tool sounds great i was thinking about buying it but i have few questions before:
- can it support bilinear filtering ?
- how many colors each palette can support ?
- how much it costs in terms of draw calls ?

I'm planning to do an hi-res graphic game and i need to use bilinear and a very large palette settings, hence i can't turn to old-style palette swapping tools which requires to use point filtering and a limited admount of colors.

Also, i read the tutorial and don't really get why you used three different sprites for the smiley, what i'm expecting to do is having a single sprite with his palette color ramp (where 0,1,2 are white,red,blue) and changing the color map at runtime with another palette (where 0,1,2 are yellow,green,purple)

Thank you!

 

Hey there!

For the questions about bilinear filtering and draw calls, I don't think Color Palette has any of these issues, because Color Palette just handles some color data. You just define a colours to different palettes, and there's a simple api you can use to get these palettes and colours at runtime, so anything related to bilinear filtering or draw calls will be caused by your GameObjects, you Materials etc... but not color palette.

And you should be able to define any number of colour you want per palette

This is not a tool that allows you to paint on textures or something, it's really just a way to group colours inside different palettes. There's also a script that allows you to define the colour that a GameObject will use. You just say that you want to use the colour #4 on the current palette, and later in the game, if you change the color palette, the GameObject color will automatically pick the colour #4 on the new palette.

I used the smiley on 3 different sprites because currently, the simple script I just talked about allows me to define the colour of a sprite, so I have 3 sprites, each having this script, and each using a different index to select a color in the palette, so when I switch palette, each sprite will have a new color (from the new palette).
But there's currently no way to say, hey this particular sprite will use these 6 colours, and change them when you want.
I just don't know how to do that... if you have a hint

The only way I can think of doing that, is if your sprite is using a texture, and this texture has only 6 colours, then I could read all the pixels from the texture and change red to blue, green to yellow etc... but that's not a super solution...
Another solution would be to use shaders, but unfortunately I don't know a thing about shaders

 

When I press "Update Scene", nothing happens.
I am just a lazy user that require to beautify my UI and happened to purchase this asset.
update: It doesn't not work with Text Mesh Pro. But work with standard components.

 

Hello!
Yes, there's no support for Text Mesh Pro, sorry

 

Hi I'm getting numerous warnings when palette tab is in focus:

Unable to find style 'AS TextArea' in skin 'LightSkin' Used
UnityEngine.GUIStylep_Implicit(String)
PygmyMonkey.ColorPalette.Utils.GUIUtils:BeginContents() (at Assets/PygmyMonkey/ColorPalette/Editor/Utils/GUIUtils.cs:162)
PygmyMonkey.ColorPalette.ColorPaletteDataRenderer:drawInspector() (at Assets/PygmyMonkey/ColorPalette/Editor/Renderer/ColorPaletteDataRenderer.cs:34)
PygmyMonkey.ColorPalette.ColorPaletteWindow:drawContent() (at Assets/PygmyMonkey/ColorPalette/Editor/ColorPaletteWindow.cs:75)
PygmyMonkey.ColorPalette.Utils.PMEditorWindow:OnGUI() (at Assets/PygmyMonkey/ColorPalette/Editor/Utils/PMEditorWindow.cs:111)
UnityEngine.GUIUtilityrocessEvent(Int32, IntPtr)

I'm on the latest version of unity and the plugin.

 

To whoever runs into the issue above, just replace 'AS TextArea' to 'TextArea' and the warning will go away. The support seems to be unavailable for this asset.

 

Hello,

Yes, thanks for sharing this fix with everyone.
Sorry I still didn't get time to submit updates for Unity 2017...

 

>>Sorry I still didn't get time to submit updates for Unity 2017...

I'm interested in this asset but it hasn't been updated since Version: 1.1.7 (May 09, 2016)

 

An update is available on the Asset Store

Version 1.1.8
- NEW Added support for Unity 2017 & 2018
- NEW Improved Demo2 scene with 3 buttons (each one downloading a palette from a supported website)
- REMOVED Removed ColorCombos color palette parser

Version 1.1.7
- FIX Issue where the current palette was not saved
- FIX Errors with WebPlayer and SamsungTV

 

Hi,

Is ColorPaletteObject Included on production build?

 

I'm confused with the Color Palette Object script, when using the custom palette option the only palettes available to choose from are the default ones, not the ones that are currently set up.

EDIT: deleting the ColorPaletteData resource fixed it

 

Are there any plans to add undo support when you change a color in a palette? Supporting palette's of gradients would be a really nice feature too.

Thanks!

 

Sorry I completely missed your message...
Yes ColorPaletteObject is included when you build. Do you have any issue with it?

 

Hello!

Sorry but undo support is not gonna happen anytime soon
Also what do you mean supporting palette's of gradients? You can already create multiple palettes by giving a start and end color and it will automatically generates the colors of the gradient between.

 

Aw for undo support, I didn't think it was that hard to add. And by gradient I mean the built in Unity gradient: https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Gradient.html

You can see it in the editor for the color of a line renderer.

 

Unfortunately I don't make enough sales of this tool to spend more time on adding features

 

An update will be available soon on the Asset Store

Version 1.1.9
- NEW: Added the ability to download palettes from colorhunt.co
- REMOVED: Removed the ability to download palettes from colourlovers.com
- NEW: Minimum version is now Unity 2018.1

 

What If I want to swap colors for specific colors in sprite sheet, will this plugin work? I want to do old school pallets for characters in fighting games.

Or does this plugin based only change tint of colors. I want to make decision soon before sale goes of, so I know if this is the right tool or not.

 

I'm sure it's been long enough to where you may not care about the answer anymore, but just in case, to anyone else reading this, this tool only updates Tint colors in SpriteRenderer and the like. It's not a shader and won't do color swapping of sprites. Mainly an organizational tool.