Colorify - realtime color-swapping and recolor map baking

Hi,
I'm interested in purchasing this asset for a 2D game, and I was wondering: how does Colorify work with atlases and Sprite Packer?
Thanks

 

Hello.

If you're using realtime mode, working with atlases isn't any different, but using masked mode with atlases is tricky - most likely you'd have to manually stitch combined mask.

 

Ok, thank you!

 

I'm liking for a demo. Is it available?
p.s:
which font do you use in the screenshots?
I would like to have it for use in my game..

 

Demo isn't available since it's a shader pack, so it's kinda hard to show it off in a demo. I'm recording a series of videos to show how it works, but it's not ready yet.

I used this site to generate text for my slides: http://cooltext.com/

 

I have problem with Colorify after upgrading Unity to 5.5. Any scene that uses object with Colorify shaders crashes (whole Unity editor crashes). Do you also reproduce this?

 

No, I can't replicate it - it works fully on 5.5 on my side. Can you try importing Colorify to an empty project and see if it works? Also, you can send me project that crashes on your side for testing - maybe there's something in project setting.

 

Sorry to all Colorify owners waiting for update, Unity 5.5 put a wrench in November release plans. It should be uploaded by 15th of December and approved around 20th.

 

Version 1.6 is currently awaiting approval by Asset Store.

Changelog:

• compatibility changes to standard shader versions for Unity 5.5
• added "bake texture" options for baking recolored textures into file
• Linear colorspace handling
  • Disable default sRGB conversion on masks
  • sRGB corrections to baked textures
• minor fixes to mask creation process

 

Can you use this Asset to change colours in sprites?

 

Yes, Colorify has sprite shader variant. The only problem is sprite atlases handling - if you're using atlases, by default colorify will recolor all instances of color on whole atlas. So, check your atlases to see if this will be problematic.

 

Excellent. Thanks.

 

@CatsPawGames ,

Please could you do some tutorial vids? I particularly need one on how to chane colour in sprites outside runtime and in inspector and save out changed png...

 

Sure thing, I'll put that specific tutorial on my to-do list. ETA is about a week.

 

Great. Much appreciated.

 

@CatsPawGames ,

Really looking forward to those vid tutorials ... particularly on how to colorify sprites in runtime but also to do so and export resultant sprite image files after bake...

 

I'm very sorry for the delay, I remember about it but I'm swamped with critical issues in my new asset right now. Hopefully I'll be able to upload the vid during this week.

 

Great. Thanks.

 

First tutorial is uploaded (sadly Youtube encoded it in 720p for some reason), here's link to tutorial playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkwSGBlXKIIPKesXxC6mNiZJI_hL0WdMU

Please inform me if tutorial didn't answer some of your questions and I'll add it to next one.

 

Great thanks.

 

@CatsPawGames ,

I seem to be fine with the tutorial until I make the mask png and/or then make a recolour png for a sprite - both seem to replicate the Quad with all its artefacts rather than the original sprite but recoloured?

 

Regarding recolored sprite, did you switch its import mode to Sprite? It's not artifacts, it's just sprite mode doesn't show you pixels based on their alpha channel.

Regarding mask, it's normal behavior and you don't need to change import settings of mask since it processes all pixels, including those that are transparent. When you apply mask to sprite, it will take original alpha channel values from original texture, so it'll show correctly.

 

I'll have another go and come back if I'm still stuck. Thx

 

Just bought it, very useful plugin, but are this plugin only support 2 pattern color?

what if i want to change more than 2 pattern color?

Thx

 

Yes, currently there's limitations of 2 recolors per material - they can differ between materials. I'm working on solution to pack 2 recolor intervals into 1 channel for 4 totals recolors (although with less precision).

 

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Howdy! Can you please explain a bit more about how your shaders work? Do they just plug into the Standard shader or do they replace it? We need to keep our build size super light, so we don't really want to add a ton of shaders to our build. And ideally it seems like we'd like to stick with the Standard shaders for emission and our PBR workflow. If you could elaborate just a bit on that, we'd appreciate it. Many thanks!

 

Hello.

Standard variant of Colorify shader is based on source of Unity Standard shader that they publish for each version. It's basically normal Standard shader (with all options & behaviors) with Colorify recoloring included on source level. As for build size, this shader will be considered separate from Unity standard shader, so it will increase build size. Since Colorify also includes a miriad of other versions of recoloring shaders, it will be optimal for you to delete them after importing package if you intend to use only standard variant.

 

I know you've said these shaders are based on Unity's Standard Shader. Do they support GPU Instancing in the same way The Standard shader does? It would be super useful to be able to modify color and still maintain GPU Instancing.

 

Thanks for bringing this to my attention, I didn't test it. It might, but changing color also might break instancing. I'll test it and try to make instancing work correctly when changing colors if there is a problem. For now, assume that it won't work.

 

I created a mask texture manually in Photoshop. It's a black/white mask in the red channel for the color I want to change. I'm not sure what the blue channel is for though? The manual says something about the luminosity of the texture, can you clarify? In my manually created mask texture, I simply left the blue channel black and it seems to work okay.

 

Hello. Empty blue channel will work for most of Colorify shaders - only exception is Standard variant in luminosity mode. Blue channel of mask generated by mask generator will contain basically grey-scale version of image. Luminosity mode uses that grey-scale version to change color using different algorithm, which is useful mainly when recoloring to absolute black or absolute white, or when there is a very big hue difference in recolored areas.

 

Thank-you for the explanation!

 

Version 1.7 is available on Asset Store.

Main addition is ability to save recolored texture to RenderTexture during runtime, allowing for using Colorify with any material, regardless of shaders you're using.

 

Hi there. I do love this asset, but I wanted to suggest some things, because the manual is pretty barebones. I've run into a lot of trouble making masks because various things keep preventing the generate masks buttons from showing up. It would be nice to have a troubleshooting section in the manual to help people with these things.

First if you don't have playmaker installed, you'll get script errors because the playmaker support can't find playmaker. I was working in an empty project with just Colorify and asset I wanted to recolor so I wasn't paying attention to the console log and it took me a while to figure out that scripting error were keeping things from working. It would be good to tell people not to install the Playmaker part of the asset if they aren't using it.

Second, at one point I was working in a new scene I had never saved. Again this kept the generate masks buttons from showing up. Although I did figure these things out, and they seemed obvious in retrospect, it was pretty frustrating at the time. Especially because I was assuming I wasn't following your instructions correctly so I was constantly going back and forth between the manual and unity trying to figure out what I had done wrong.

 

Hello and thanks for feedback. By default playmaker scripts shouldn't be installed and should come in separate unitypackage, I'll check the uploaded package to see if I made a mistake during upload.

Edit: Just checked and yep, I forgot to delete the script during clean upload to Asset Store. Thank you for bringing this up, and I'll reupload fixed version immediately.

 

Hello !

This asset seems very nice and usefull. I create a make up game and would like to know if this plugin match my needs.
I have a 3d character with a texture and I would like to change at runtime come color of the cheeks, eyelids, lips and a lot more.

This can be done using this plugin ? (I saw on previous answer there is only 2 different color can be apply to one texture ? I need a lot more ^^)

Thank you !

 

Hello. I already replied to your email, but just in case - as you suspected, 2 colors is the roadblock in your case. It's possible to work around it, but it would require coding and possibly 1 or 2 additional simple shaders.

 

Does this work for the ps4 ?

 

It should, although it wasn't tested. There's 2 weeks no-questions-asked refund period so you can buy it and, if there's any problems, either get refund or describe your problem and I'll try to fix it.

 

Doesn't build with 2018.1

Shader error in 'Colorify/Standard': 'AdditiveLight': no matching 0 parameter function at Assets/Middleware/Colorify/Shaders/Standard/ColorifyStandardCore.cginc(724) (on d3d11)

Compiling Vertex program with UNITY_PASS_FORWARDADD SPOT _COLORIFYMASKED

Platform defines: UNITY_ENABLE_REFLECTION_BUFFERS UNITY_USE_DITHER_MASK_FOR_ALPHABLENDED_SHADOWS UNITY_PBS_USE_BRDF1 UNITY_SPECCUBE_BOX_PROJECTION UNITY_SPECCUBE_BLENDING UNITY_ENABLE_DETAIL_NORMALMAP SHADER_API_DESKTOP UNITY_COLORSPACE_GAMMA UNITY_LIGHT_PROBE_PROXY_VOLUME UNITY_LIGHTMAP_RGBM_ENCODING

Odd because the line that's pointing to:

UnityLight light = AdditiveLight (s.normalWorld, IN_LIGHTDIR_FWDADD(i), LIGHT_ATTENUATION(i));

Is calling the function with three parameters.... I hate the shader compiler so very much.

 

Thanks for reporting this, I'll upload updated version during this week.

 

Hi @CatsPawGames, I'd like to get this package but according to the Asset Store you haven't updated the asset since last November. I guess this means no support for 2018.X (and 2017.X) yet? Can you let us know when you have updated?

PS: I personally don't need support for the new, scriptable render pipelines...

 

Sorry about that, was distracted by issues with my other assets and completely forgot about that. I'll try to upload update in the next 5 days.

 

Update to Colorify was uploaded to Asset Store, it includes compatibility changes for Unity 2018.1

 

Hi - while you're at it, can you make sure it works with 2018.2?

 

Hello @CatsPawGames I got an error when I used it. This error caused the entire shader to be unusable.
Is there any way to solve it?
I tested three different computers, two computers went wrong, only one computer can be used, I am not sure what the reason is.
I hope this can be solved. Grateful

 

Hello, what version of Unity did you use?

 

Hello ,I use 2018.1.0f2 and it can't work ,but my other computer use 2018.2.1f1 and it work,so i try to update 2018.2.1f1 and try again.

 

@CatsPawGames I succeeded! It's version 2018.1.0f2 problem!
There is a problem with the 2018.1.0f2 version, so please don't use it. This version will cause the standard shader of colorify to be unavailable.
Update to 2018.2.3f1 to solve the problem!