Color tool broken?

[captainamaziiing]

I'm in v9 and finally decided to start painting. But the color tool is the new Henry Ford version. "You can have it in any color you want, so long as it's black"

Anyone else having this issue? Am I missing something? I have no colors in my color selector. Just black. And everything I place is already painted black. Which frankly, looks better than the default grey, but not as good as full color.

EDIT: Further experimentation shows the color tool works fine on my small block SV, but my base is black, as are any large block components I place in it.

[p3st|cIdE]

Can not repro. Is there any chance you didn't start a new game in alpha 9 experimental?

[captainamaziiing]

Originally posted by p3st|cIdE:

Can not repro. Is there any chance you didn't start a new game in alpha 9 experimental?

No, I fired up a brand new game.

It turns out that if I select a block, then choose my color tool, then select any black square, I can then hit the customize color button and set that one color. I'll need to mix all my own colors one at a time that way. But I'll have a palette nobody else has so that's a win, I guess.

[Anthony]

1) Make sure you're not using the first selction in the tool (That's the "default" color)

2) Color paletts seems to be ship specific. So you can have more than one ;)

3) If you edit a color after painting, it will change all blocks with that color.

EDIT-
3 times it falls

[SunGod]

I'm also having this same problem with the color tool. Started a new game in A9, built a base, made a CV which I was able to paint just fine, but the moment I tried to paint any blocks on my BA, the color tool shows only black. It's pretty frustrating. Haven't been able to find any workaround.

I walk outside and point the color tool at my SV and it works fine, full color palette available. Point it at the base - all black. Point it back to the HV, full color palette available again.

Painting bases appears to be broken.

[captainamaziiing]

@Sungod: I was still using the 'experimental v9' version, I had not gone back to load the new v9 release when they did the switch. Since I uploaded normal v9, (and started a brand new game) the color tool has worked fine, along with a few other glitchy things. If you have not made the switch this may be the reason.