Palette Swapping?

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- Societyisbabylon
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I'm in a bit of a pickle, I did a character with a lot of animations, now I want to simulate being able to choose between different characters with palette swaps since I don't feel like painting manually.

I had this idea, not sure if it's doable or not, so I'm brainstorming with you guys with what would be a possible solution.

My current idea: The skin color being light gray, clothes being dark gray, then having some sort of event setup that handles colors with effects perhaps?

Like, if I select "Bob" I get a blue outfit, if I choose Jimmy, I get a red outfit, etc.

Your thoughts?
- dop2000
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Yes, this is possible - you can add several copies of ReplaceColor effect, each will replace one color. Changing effect parameters with events is a bit cumbersome, so I would probably store all colors in an array and use a function to swap them.

There may be custom effects allowing to do the same easier, try searching this forum:

construct.net/en/forum/extending-construct-2/effects-31
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- Elliott
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If your characters skin is grey and the clothes are colours, you get away with a simple adjustHSL effect and playing with the hue to change blue to red
- Societyisbabylon
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Thank you for your input, guys. It was a major help. I got the effect going as I want it =)