Change an actors colour to completely white when attribute changed

Zombiebrains

Hello

I was wondering if anyone knew how to change an actors image to completely white when an attribute is checked.
I haver a star field and when an attribute called 'Hyper' is selected the stars all stretch out but stay their original colour.

How can I get it so that say, a purple star changes completely white.
I've see then RGB thing but it looks like you can only change a actor RED, GREEN Or Blue using a combination of turning each one off>
I've tried using 255/255/255 in the output box but nothing

Any ideas

Thanks guys

gyroscope

HI ZB, the R,G and B attributes in GSC are in the scale of 0 to 1 (i'd far prefer it it be the normal 0 to 255 as well!) so change each colour to 1 will bring the image back to its original colour. :-)

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Zombiebrains

Hi Gyro

So we can't change the colour of a actor completely white using attributes?

So how would I get my star to change white from its original colour (Purple) using the RGB 0/1 method?

MotherHoose

Colors in GS are 0 to 1 (and any decimal in between EX: 0.555555) … as they are real values they can be decimals

RGB 0 is black or no color over the alpha channel's black
RGB 1 is white or full color over the alpha channel's black
images are R=1, G=1, B=1 as they are full color

the closest you can get to white is 0.99999999
better to start with a white star and change its color RGB till you get the purple you want …
then easier to changeAttributes red; green; blue To: 1 … to have it white again.

@};- MH

GLGAMES

Why not make a white color star and display that as self image when hyper is true?

gyroscope

Sure you can, ZB, sorry I didn't explain myself fully: either change the Attributes in the Actor Edit page - Red to 1, Green to 1 and Blue to 1; or via the Change Attribute behaviour: Change Actor 1.Color.Red to 1, Green to 1 and Blue to 1.

But... if you mean get rid of the image completely and just have white, you'll need to make a completely white image, same size, and use a Change Image attribute.

Edit: beaten by MH and GLG!

GLGAMES

You could also use alpha to 0 if you just want it disappear..

Zombiebrains

cool, that worked a treat!

Thanks Gyro and all you other guys for helping me in the right direction...changing RED to 1, GREEN to 1 and BLUE to 1 worked!

Zombiebrains

Thanks GL...will bear that in mind if needed somewhere else in my app, sure I will!

Zombiebrains

It's so simple when you know these things..I just didn't know RED TO 1, GREEN TO 1 and BLUE TO 1 would make it white...result!

MotherHoose

oh @gyroscope … so enjoyed that 2 on 1 S&M scenario! )

Was it good for you?
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but, only need the white image (not 2 images) … you can change an image's color in GS …
and you can click on the actor's/scene's colorBox … use the RGB sliders option rather than crayons… to set RGB 0-255 values.

@};- MH

gyroscope

"oh @gyroscope … so enjoyed that 2 on 1 S&M scenario! ) "

Ha, sure was good for me too, MH, I'm positively glowing! ) Still wonder who was S and who was M tho'... ;-)

Good one about the colorBox, I forgot to mention that. :-)