Colorify - realtime color-swapping and recolor map baking

Yes, I'm going to research options for integrating Colorify to Playmaker. From the looks of it this isn't that time-consuming, so it'll probably be included in v1.5.

 

Excellent - thanks

 

I found a minor problem with specular variant of Standard shader (specular map recoloring is patchy when specular hue is significantly different from albedo hue). Fix will be avaliable in 1-2 weeks.

Edit: Fix will also include recolor option for other maps, such a luminance.

 

Good stuff. Already playintg with this Asset.

 

Just a thought - but how about making Colorify 'Playmaker compatible' (just adding Playmaker actions) - would make it more marketable!

 

Yes, version 1.5 will include Playmaker support.

 

Excellent!

 

Would it be possible to add more colors?

 

Hello.
Realtime mode is restricted to 2 colors only and I don't see any way to change that.
I'm working on possible solutions for increasing number of colors in masked mode, but it's still in early stages.

 

Just want to confirm: if I use Colorify on multiple instances of same model in same scene (ie, multiplayer with multiple players using same model) and each has a different chosen set of "player colors", I don't need a separate material for each player? Just the Colorify plugin attached to the main prefab, and each instance can be individually colored per each user's chosen color sets? (Also: status of more than 2 color selections - 3 would be absolutely ideal for my setup - I wouldn't need to waste time and memory creating a separate texture and material for each faction times the number of models which are a LOT in my game... And would allow for insane number of combinations of player/clan/faction color schemes instead of only 6: black/white/red/blue/green/gold)...

 

Yes, you would need to setup just 1 material and you can change colors of each of your instances at runtime individually(Under the hood, Unity will automatically create different instances of materials).
You don't need to attach "Colorify plugin" to your objects, you just have to use shaders from Colorify group.
To change color at runtime, you can use renderer.material.SetColor (more info on parameters naming in the manual).

I'm playing around with 3 color variations, but I can't give you ETA on that.

P.S. Just noticed that link to online manual was 404, sorry for that. I updated the link in forum post and will upload info update to asset store.

 

Given you'd have a breakthrough with 3 colors.. do you think more than that might be working out too?

 

Theoretical maximum I can bake into one map is 4 colors (1 per channel). More than that will require some complicated map format that will probably have very poor performance.

 

Version 1.5 is uploaded to Asset Store.
Changes:

- Added Unity 5-compatible Toon and Toon Outline shaders

- Standard PBS shader:
-- Added backface and cull-off versions
-- Added luminosity recolor mode
-- Added color multipliers
-- Added specular recolor and smoothness control
-- Updated shaders based on new 5.2 pipeline. (5.2 version only)

Playmaker integration will be released as 1.5a update.

 

@CatsPawGames ,

Looking better and better.

You know those game icon packs (with transparency etc) - will this also colorify those?

 

Thanks!

My own project uses Colorify for icons generation, and Colorify includes unlit shaders for sprites and UI, so it probably will. But I didn't test it with Unity new GUI, so I can't tell for sure.

 

Hi, can I use this asset to change textures easily as I expect? You know it's very awful if we change shader's color, the whole diffuse(or similar color no matter where they are on the model) is multiply that color and make things ugly, and that final color is also very hard to control(is Colorify a WYSIWYG asset?)

 

Hello, that's exactly the reason I created this Asset. It applies recoloring only on designated areas (either by defining a color range or providing recolor mask - you can also automatically generate recolor masks), and recoloring algorithm isn't based on simply multipliying colors - there's RGB difference algorithm and luminosity-based multiplication algorithm. You can see the effect of the changes you make immedeately in the editor.

 

I'd like to have a try
What's that mask base on? Color or UV? I have used others and it looks dumb because my character's face and shoes is very similar and that asset change them both

 

Mask is in the same UV-space as diffuse texture with red and green channels representing recoloring coefficients (red for color #1 and green for color #2), and blue channel containing baked luminosity of diffuse texture for luminosity recolor mode.

 

If your character face and shoes are on the same material and texture, and have same color, then Colorify will recolor them both by default, so you'll have to edit mask that Colorify generated for you by hand to differentiate them.

 

Just wanted to say thanks...sale was perfect timing as this is saved me alot of time.
I created a substance to do the same, but this is so much easier to work with.

 

Hi does this have playmaker actions? if not will you be adding them?

thanks

 

Hi,

I want to use Colorify in strategy game (to recolor unit details to player color). First thing I tried didn't work very well but that is probably because recoloring was not taken into account when creating original unit textures. So my question is:
what is the best practice for material/texture design for objects that will be recolored?

 

Hello.

Since you're creating your textures yourself, best way of doing would be creating recolor mask alongside your texture, with red channel being recolor strength for color #1 and green channel for color #2.
If you don't want to draw recolor mask yourself, then it's best to have distinct colors in recolored areas (for example, red and green) so Colorify can easily distinguish them from areas that shouldn't be touched by recoloring algorithm.

 

Thanks! Will try custom recolor mask now. Would that be the right way to go:

1. make grayscale version or original texture
2. remove parts that I don't want to recolor
3. use grayscale image as red channel in RGB mask for color #1 when recoloring

 

You don't need to use grayscale version as mask, just paint parts you need to recolor 100% red on your mask. You can also blur that if you want to smoothen recoloring effect. Basically, value of red channel is a mix coefficient, R=1 gets you full recolor, R=0 gets you no recolor, and R=0.5 (for example) gets you a 50/50 mix of recolored and original color.

Note that if you want to use luminosity recoloring mode, you'll need to put grayscale image into your blue channel (more info on luminosity recoloring in the manual).

 

Looking forward to Playmaker support... v1.6?

 

As I said earlier, Playmaker support will be released as 1.5a update, I'm working on it right now. I originally planned to include it in 1.5 release, but I had to rush 1.5 release because Colorify got put on sale.

 

That's great. More strength to you arm!

 

Hey! This looks like a super useful thing. However, I see there's no support for Sprite Diffuse shader. Is this something you would be able to add? All of our games sprites are using that shader, if would be great if it was supported....

Thanks!

 

Hello! There's unlit family of shaders included specifically for sprite rendering.

 

@CatsPawGames ,

How is it going? How is Playmaker integration coming along?

 

It's currently pending review by asset store team, should be avaliable sometime during next week.

 

Brilliant. Wasn't expecting it that quickly!

 

Version 1.5a with Playmaker support is available on Asset Store!
To enable Colorify playmaker actions unpack unitipackage from "Colorify/Playmaker" folder.

 

Great! Thanks.

 

Hi CatPawGames. I finally bought Colorify and the colour changing is very useful... however, our sprites were all using the Sprite-Diffuse shader so that they could receive lighting. You suggest using the Colorify Unlit shaders for sprites, but they don't work with lighting. Do you have any plans to support the sprite diffuse shader?

Thanks!

 

Hello, send me a message to leonidmv@gmail.com, and I'll reply with a sprite diffuse variants within a couple of days. They also will be included in the next version of Colorify, thanks for pointing out that this shader family was missing.

 

HI any demo scenes to play around with it?

 

Just so I understand this - my game has a motorcycle and I'd like to give the player the option of changing the color of it (side panels, tank, fenders etc). Your tool can accomplish this, correct?

It's a mobile game so performance is a concern. Thanks, and a simple yes or no answer will suffice!

 

Yes, that's exactly what this asset was made for.

Performance is a non-issue for Colorify, especially for mask mode - performance of mask shaders are almost completely identical to usual Unity shaders.

 

Coming soon - overlay texture extraction for UMA.

 

Hi team. it is very useful asset. by the way, i want to try to use unity chan shader.
https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/jp/#!/content/18705
In this case what should i do?

 

It's pretty easy to include Colorify support to 3rd party shaders. If source for Unity-chan shader is accessible and its license allows modifications, I can plug Colorify in - send me a letter with invoice and shader source if you want me to do it.

 

OK! i'll send you.

 

Looks very promising, however ...

I read your manual. I want to do runtime dynamic color change of parts of an animated character via script. For runtime in code adjustments, your manual says to refer to unity manual.

"Usage for dynamic recoloring in your code:
You can change your material parameters during runtime by using
Material.SetFloat
and
Material.SetColor
.
More info available at Unity Script Reference:
http://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Material.SetFloat.html
http://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Material.SetColor.html"

Do I even need this asset if what I want to do is already covered in the Unity manual?

Again I have an animated character that I want to change the color of various parts (i need a mask apparently) at runtime in game.

Is there a demo included to show how to do runtime in code changes to a character?

 

Link to the Unity manual just explains how to change shader parameters at runtime through code. You still need a shader that will accept these parameters.

There's no example included of runtime manipulation, but it's something along these two lines of code:

Code (CSharp):

1. Renderer rend = GetComponent<Renderer>();
2. rend.material.SetColor("_NewColor", Color.red); //Use Color variable with desired color instead of Color.red

P.S. There's also Playmaker support, so if you're not comfortable with scripting, you can use that.

 

I seem to be having problems.
Maybe the tools do not do what I was expecting.

I have a mage robe that comes with 5 different detail colors that use a detail mask.
I am also using mesh baker to bake all textures/ meshes together for performance.

The problem is if I use a red detail color for gloves then all the other parts that use that mask also change(because they are all on the same shader).

So I figure I can take each one of those mask/detail color combos and bake them into a texture.
Then mesh baker will add all of the new textures together and switching the color of one part will not cause a problem.

So first question is can that be done using Colorify?

Second question is if so how? I have tried many times and can't get it to work.
No offence but the manual seems lacking.
How do I use an existing detail mask and only bake the detail color into a texture?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/89uad9793yoewhk/Capture.JPG?dl=0

 

1) If you're using Mesh Baker that produce mesh with only 1 material, you only have 2 recolor intervals for that material when using Colorify. Note that this restriction is per material, not per shader. There's no way around that.

2) Detail mask for the gloves would of course affect other parts if they're part of the same material, regardless of Colorify usage.

Overall I don't understand why you're using Colorify alongside recoloring with detail masks. It's two different types of recoloring, so stick to one or the other. They will not work satisfyingly together.