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Better Colorize for Ren'Py

Use a shader to closely replicate hand-coloured images in-engine. 路 By Feniks

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A topic by Feniks created Nov 06, 2023 Views: 148 Replies: 6
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Developer

If you're having trouble or run into any bugs with the code, post a comment here! I will try to get back to you within a few days.

Hi there! I'm trying to use this tool to create UI color variants for my game, but unfortunately I've run into an issue...

First off, this is what we're starting with:

I quickly realized the raw/pink images weren't going to work, so I recolored the icons and text to blue, and the base image to red:

Then I applied the following transform to all the buttons:

transform statusbutton(col=gui.accent_color):
    on hover:
        RGBColorize(gray=[col, "#000000"], gray_thresh=[255, 0], green=["#ffffff", "#000000"]).transform
    on idle:
        RGBColorize(gray=[col, "#000000"], gray_thresh=[255, 0], red_thresh=[200,0], green=["#000000"], blue=["#ffffff", "#000000"]).transform
    on selected_idle:
        RGBColorize(gray=[col, "#000000"], gray_thresh=[255, 0], green=["#ffffff", "#000000"]).transform

Color-wise, this works great! But it somehow seems to be squashing my text:

  

Is this a bug, or is something off about my setup? Thanks in advance for your help!

Developer

Without further information it's hard to say, but nothing about the shader alters the base image dimensions so I think it's unlikely that the shader is doing any kind of squishing. It would be helpful to see how you put the actual button together in screen language besides just the transform, and what it looks like with/without the transform applied.

It don't think it's due to my buttons alone, since it seems to apply to all on-screen text. Here's the simplest example I could come up with:

text _("Testing testing") align (0.5,0.5) color "#00FF00"


text _("Testing testing") align (0.5,0.5) color "#00FF00" at RGBColorize(gray=["#ff33fb", "#000000"], gray_thresh=[255, 0], green=["#ffffff", "#000000"]).transform

It does the same with labels, textbuttons, and Text() displayables too. I tested the same transform with an image, and that one showed up correctly, though!

Are you able to replicate this? I tried to disable all styles and shaders that could be conflicting with it, but it's possibly still an issue on my end.

What is the license? Is it CC BY? Or something else?

Thank you.

Developer

Not quite CC-BY, as I don't permit the resale of the tool itself outside of a project, but for the most part yes feel free to use it in your projects, commercial and noncommercial, with attribution as outlined in the Terms of Use section 馃槉

I saw the main page, but wasn't sure if I was missing something when I couldn't find license information in the downloaded files. Anyway, thank you for the reply!