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Unity sprite color messed up.

Discussion in '2D' started by Zenggame, Jul 19, 2019.

  1. Zenggame

    Zenggame

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    You know that you can change the color of a sprite via a script, right?

    So I tried to do that, like this:

    Code (CSharp):
    1. switch (Game.instance.stage)
    2.         {
    3.             case 1:
    4.                 sprite.color = new Color(69f, 81f, 255f);
    5.                 break;
    6.             case 2:
    7.                 sprite.color = new Color(18f , 207f, 0f);
    8.                 break;
    9.             case 3:
    10.                 sprite.color = new Color(196f, 217f, 42f);
    11.                 break;
    12.             case 4:
    13.                 sprite.color = new Color(128f, 129f, 0f);
    14.                 break;
    15.             case 5:
    16.                 sprite.color = new Color(255f, 110f, 93f);
    17.                 break;
    18.             case 6:
    19.                 sprite.color = new Color(221f, 10f, 0f);
    20.                 break;
    21.         }
    And there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with this, right?

    Surprise surprise? A lot is wrong with it.

    I noticed that my sprite turns white instead of blue. So I selected one of the sprite and it seems that the color of my sprite started glitching out, even in the inspector, like this (if you don't see what's going on,
    basically the blue color that I have chose turns out to be actually white (top right))
    Untitled.png

    This only happens in playmode and when my ChangeColor() method is called in Update().

    What the heck is going on here?
     
  2. Deleted User

    Deleted User

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    Not really but it's not that obvious. You need to:
    1. choose your colour in the colour picker;
    2. select "RGB 0-1.0",
    3. use the values for the red, blue and green colours that display there in your script.
     
  3. Zenggame

    Zenggame

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    I'm afraid that's not the "symptom" I was talking about. It's not because the white is 1,1,1 and i set it to 210 and stuff. No no no no. Im talking about this:
    Untitled.png Untitled.png Untitled.png
     
  4. Deleted User

    Deleted User

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    The way I describe is the way to use when you want to change the colour of anything by script. :)
     
  5. Zenggame

    Zenggame

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    Do you have any idea of what is happening in the images? cause i dont.
     
  6. Deleted User

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    No except that it happens because the setting in the script is not right; and the result says blindingly so. :p
     
  7. Zenggame

    Zenggame

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    what do you mean by "the setting in the script"?
     
  8. LiterallyJeff

    LiterallyJeff

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    That actually is the problem. You're using values outside the range of the inputs.

    If you change your code to use Color32 instead of Color, you can use the 0-255 range without issue.

    https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Color32.html

    You can view a color in the different representations using this dropdown:
    Screen Shot 2019-07-19 at 3.39.09 PM.png
     
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  9. TigerDawn

    TigerDawn

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    Also check to make sure your alpha channel is not set to 100% see through.