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Is it possible to change the overall hue of a Ren'Py Game?
Posted: Fri May 08, 2020 12:07 pm
by Kinmoku
Hi all. I think this was asked a while ago but I can't find the post now. Is it possible to change the overall hue of a Ren'Py Game? Or brightness/ saturation/ other effects?
I was inspired by World of Horror's color palette and wondered if something similar could be done in Ren'Py i.e. change the overall game's colors, not every individual image? (or maybe a way to process every image and change the GUI styles in one swoop?)
Re: Is it possible to change the overall hue of a Ren'Py Game?
Posted: Fri May 08, 2020 12:53 pm
by hell_oh_world
I don't think this is possible as post-processing filters / functions in renpy can only be applied in a displayable. So i think it's doable as what you think, but only by applying the filter to each displayables.
Re: Is it possible to change the overall hue of a Ren'Py Game?
Posted: Fri May 08, 2020 3:22 pm
by gas
As long as you work with 2 bits (pure BW) like World of Horrors, you can add a layer with a screen and a Solid tint with alpha < than 1.
You can so manipulate the tint and the alpha to reach for such effects.
I dunno what could happen with a native colored game, probably a mess anyway.
Re: Is it possible to change the overall hue of a Ren'Py Game?
Posted: Mon May 11, 2020 4:01 am
by Kinmoku
gas wrote: ↑Fri May 08, 2020 3:22 pm
As long as you work with 2 bits (pure BW) like World of Horrors, you can add a layer with a screen and a Solid tint with alpha < than 1.
You can so manipulate the tint and the alpha to reach for such effects.
I dunno what could happen with a native colored game, probably a mess anyway.
Yeah, I thought this would be the best way to do it, though it makes everything more red/ green/ whatever, including black. I think if I want to change (for example) black and white to purple and yellow, I'd need to change every individual element of the game. I'm not sure it's worth my time, but your solution is a quick fix for now.
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image red:
alpha 0.4
Solid("#ff0000")
screen red:
zorder 101
add "red"
label start:
show screen red
Re: Is it possible to change the overall hue of a Ren'Py Game?
Posted: Wed May 20, 2020 7:30 am
by Remix
As gas noted, pretty much any processing (except ATL) feature in Ren'Py only works on physical files, so you'd need to process each file before using it in some form of composite.
There is
matrix.colorize which could take a gray-scale (black and white and grays) and make the blacks into purples and whites into yellows.
It rather depends on your base images though.
Personally, if I was looking to do it, I'd be thinking of a
displayable prefix and processing in a function... "recolor:images/eileen.png" >>> recolor function >>> read global newblack, newwhite and return colorized version...