How to set color and tracers on spawned objects?

[pnvv]

Not really much I can say that the title doesn't already tell you

[faytree]

you mean on how to spawn an object with a tracer that has a color that you want,huh?

[pnvv]

Yes. That's exactly what I want.

[faytree]

Simple! Here's the example code! :

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    scene.AddCircle({
        color := [0, 0, 1, 1];
        radius := 0.1;
        pos := pos
    });
    scene.addPen({
        Size := 0.1;
        color = [1, 0, 0, 1];
        pos := pos
    })

i hope that it helps you out

[pnvv]

Helped me very much. But I have another question: Where to access the numbers that define the color. I looked at the "appearance" option and I just got a bunch of percentages.

[faytree]

Well,that's very simple.But remember,Algodoo has2 color variables which is:
1.Color
2.ColorHSVA

both of those variables works differently,
for example:

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Color = [Red,Green,Blue,Appearance]
so,if i want to make a yellow color,i'll write:
[1,1,0,1] into the Color variable
and if i want to make a purple color,i'll write:
[1,0,1,1] into the Color variable


While,ColorHSVA is way more different than the Color variable.
For example:

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ColorHSVA = [Hue,Saturation,Value,Appearance]
if i want to make a bright yellow color,i'll write:
[60,1,1,1] into the ColorHSVA variable
and if i want to make a dark yellow color,i'll write:
[60,1,1,0.5,1] into the ColorHSVA variable

i hope that it helps

[electronicboy]

It's worth noting that each value is linked, as in, you update one, the other will be updated. the RGBA is probably the easiest, RGB is the relevant colours, you may remember the 0-255 ranges in other applications, it's pretty much the exact same just divided into a range of 0-1. As for A, Alpha, is the transparent of the object for a more accurate term!

[pnvv]

Both you guys helped a lot. Thank you very much.