Color gun's new Configure feature

[VulcanTourist]

How many of you have used this, I wonder? I don't fully understand it, but it has already come in very handy. Since it changes the palette specific to individual structures, I was able to use it to save time with a recent base where my initial coloring choices weren't exactly what I wanted and the standard palette didn't have what I wanted. There was a shade of blue in particular that I needed to change and, rather than having to RECOLOR EVERY SINGLE BLOCK, I was able to simply alter that one color in the palette specific to that base; all the blocks were recolored in an instant.

Aesthetics are rarely my first concern, but when its time arrives this new feature is a huge aesthetic help.

[ravien_ff]

I love it. Made a txt file with custom color palettes for my custom factions.

[VulcanTourist]

Originally posted by ravien_ff:

I love it. Made a txt file with custom color palettes for my custom factions.

How is that done?

[ravien_ff]

Originally posted by VulcanTourist:

Originally posted by ravien_ff:

I love it. Made a txt file with custom color palettes for my custom factions.

How is that done?

Select the color(s) that you want to save, using ctrl or shift click to select multiple colors at once. I typically just select all the colors in the entire palette. Then click the copy button. Alt tab out and open a txt file in notepad or whatever and then just hit paste. It converts your custom color palette into code.

When you want to use the same palette again, simply select the block of text from the txt file and hit copy, go back into the game and select the entire color palette with shift click and then hit the paste button.

You can also copy and paste color palettes between blueprints without using a txt file.

[VulcanTourist]

Originally posted by ravien_ff:

Originally posted by VulcanTourist:

How is that done?

Select the color(s) that you want to save, using ctrl or shift click to select multiple colors at once. I typically just select all the colors in the entire palette. Then click the copy button. Alt tab out and open a txt file in notepad or whatever and then just hit paste. It converts your custom color palette into code.

When you want to use the same palette again, simply select the block of text from the txt file and hit copy, go back into the game and select the entire color palette with shift click and then hit the paste button.

You can also copy and paste color palettes between blueprints without using a txt file.

Oh... I thought you were saving palette changes to files that the game was then automatically reading. This new feature isn't specific to structures that were spawned from a blueprint (or that have been blueprinted), is it? The base I was using it with has not been blueprinted yet.

[ravien_ff]

The custom color palette is saved with the blueprint. If you save a blueprint of the base and then spawn it or share it, it will retain the custom color palette that you used.

If you want to copy the custom colors over to a different blueprint or to save them in a txt file for future use, you can use the method I posted above.

[VulcanTourist]

Originally posted by ravien_ff:

The custom color palette is saved with the blueprint. If you save a blueprint of the base and then spawn it or share it, it will retain the custom color palette that you used.

If you want to copy the custom colors over to a different blueprint or to save them in a txt file for future use, you can use the method I posted above.

I suppose a later evolution of it will involve permanent saving of palette "templates" that can be annotated and reused entirely from within the game's UI.

[ravien_ff]

Originally posted by VulcanTourist:

Originally posted by ravien_ff:

The custom color palette is saved with the blueprint. If you save a blueprint of the base and then spawn it or share it, it will retain the custom color palette that you used.

If you want to copy the custom colors over to a different blueprint or to save them in a txt file for future use, you can use the method I posted above.

I suppose a later evolution of it will involve permanent saving of palette "templates" that can be annotated and reused entirely from within the game's UI.

You can do that, too. You can save up to 4 (5?) custom color palettes to re-use at will in the color tool. Click the little "+" icon at the bar at the top of the color tool to add another color palette page, then you can copy-paste individual colors or the whole palette to and from the "current" tab to apply to it or copy it from your current structure. :)

Note that said color palettes might get reset during a game update. Mine did, hence why I saved it using both blueprints and a txt file.