coloring things

[asdf]

i want to make blue, red and green firestifcks have a different colors in the editor, because i'm making a map, that involves a maze, of pillars and firesticks on each one, and its hard if i have to goto thing mode, see what color it is, and then go to line mode, and change the action. anyway to do this?

[Shadow Dweller]

you probably need a program like XWE (extendable wad editor) that lets you get into the thing and change it. i am not sure of how this works but i believe it starts there. i, personally, don't know much about the program as i don't have much time to play around with it.

[Bloodshedder]

I think he means the icons that represent the different torches in 2D editing Thing mode.

[asdf]

yeah, what bloodsheader said, can it be done?

[Shadow Dweller]

Not sure how, i'll check for a way now...


i be back

[Shadow Dweller]

there is a way, but it is not what you are looking for. you can only change the thing colors collectively according the action undertaken. for example; the colors can be changed for tagged things, selected things, unknown things and so on. tap F5 to enter your configurations, from there go to colors and you can change the colors according to what i said.

so in this case, for what you are tring to do, it dosen't look possible.

[CodeImp]

You can do it, you have to copy and edit a game configuration and put each torch in its own category, then give each category a different color.

[asdf]

YAY! thanks code imp!

[edit]i just edited the zdoom doom in hexen config, and now, it isn't avalible from that drop down...

[edit2]now it works

[Shadow Dweller]

CodeImp said:

You can do it, you have to copy and edit a game configuration and put each torch in its own category, then give each category a different color.

you can do that in doom builder?

[asdf]

yup :)

redflamestick
		{
		arrow = 0;
		title = "Red Flamestick";
		width = 16;
		sort = 1;
		height = 16;
		hangs = 0;
		blocking = 2;
		color = 4; //Red
		
		46
		{
			title = "Tall red firestick";
			sprite = "TREDA0";
		}
	}
	greenflamestick
	{
	arrow = 0;
	title = "Green Flamestick";
	width = 16;
	sort = 1;
	height = 16;
	hangs = 0;
	blocking = 2;
	color = 2; //Green

	45
		{
			title = "Tall green firestick";
			sprite = "TGRNA0";
		}
	}

[CodeImp]

And FYI:

0 - Dark Gray
1 - Dark Blue
2 - Dark Green
3 - Dark Cyan
4 - Dark Red
5 - Dark Magenta
6 - Brown
7 - Light Gray
8 - Gray
9 - Bright Blue
10 - Bright Green
11 - Bright Cyan
12 - Bright Red
13 - Bright Magenta
14 - Bright Yellow
15 - White

[Shadow Dweller]

ok, thanks


good luck with your map, by the way

[asdf]

ohhhh thanks for the color info codeimp :) it will help!!!