#Color overlay after effects how to
#Color overlay after effects plus

While 'Tint Plus' just multiplies the original colors with the selected one channel based, 'color overlay' replaces a certain amont (up to completely) of the original color with the selected one based on a third-weighted greyscale image. I know I will sound like a nitpicker now, but 'color overlay' is not just 'Tint Plus' with intensity In fact, 'Tint Plus' was the reason to create 'color overlay'. (You could have a stormy winter night, totally black, only lit dark blueish when lightning strikes, or a bright mid-sommer day. That's why it is very useful as a post effect for day-night-cycles and such. The result is very natural, because in real life you lose contrast the darker it gets, and 'color overlay' works similar. It replaces a certain amount of the original color by the selected color. The 'color overlay' effect works more like a foto filter, or imagine you wear colored sunglasses while looking at the image.

#Color overlay after effects plus

The result is a mixture of more contrast plus the mixed original and blend color. The 'overlay' effect is a special blend mode, that combines a multiply blend for dark areas and a screen blend for light areas. And that's why I was afraid of the name 'color overlay'. I didn't test it yet, but how does this differ from a solid color sprite with overlay on top of the image? I'm just curious, not saying it isn't useful or anything. What I wrote above is the only possible way. Sounds weird, I know, hard to explain, maybe I should just release it as test version and see where we can get with it.ĮDIT: hmm, maybe it is possible.let me test a bit.ĮDIT 2: no, sorry, the limitations of the instruction slots are too strict. I'm still experimenting with greyscale or one of the color channels, but that would mean I need to develop an app that does the indexing prior to the game and creates special images from the source images based on the number of indices used. The way I'm doing it is that one sprite serves as the 'to' palette and changes the complete background it covers. You can't select certain objects from the background. The reason is, that you have only access to the actual foreground object but the background is averything behind it as one display size image. My approach is similar, but this exact example is not possible. Using the pallette sprite as the foreground object, but retrieving color info from all the 0x locations and the 1x locations determining the from/to colors?

#Color overlay after effects how to

: and it uses this sprite to determine how to swap pallettes for the actual colorswapping sprite? : aligned so the left column is the 'from' colors, and the right column is the 'to' colors : would it be possible to make an effect get the colors from one sprite, like a square with a bunch of colors to the left and right I haven't learned any of this fx making stuff yet, but I had an idea in chat, is this possible: Maybe I'm posting a test version to see what input comes from the community. It works fine but is limited in the way of initial coloring, so it will take a while to figure out a good and convenient way. I'm currently (and because of design issues probably a little longer) working on an effect, that does color indexing, meaning swapping whole palettes of colors.

It was connived, but the results outside 0-100% may differ unexpectedly from what one has in mind, so it is a 'handle with care'

We could see color overlay as the every-day-use effect (the idea was to keep it simple), whereas color overlay 2 serves as tool for pros, for the ones who need more control to tweak their colors.

This is as close as I'll get to color swapping, and it requires quite a bit of probing, but the recoloring possibilities are impressive.įirst, some useful additions, e.g. This might not be intended, but it's again quite useful in achieving nice color effects. There are quite a few new parameters, I admit, but the effect is really useful for all different sorts of recoloring.Īn additional fun thing thing about the effect (also with tulamide's Color Overlay) is that the values don't have to be between 0-100%. Finally a color channel swap was added, which can swap all the values of the different color channels. Further I added the effect of color inversion, also split up into three channels. I spit the intensity regulator into three parts for each color channel. After trying to make a color replacer for up to ten colors (which didn't work since only 32 registers are allowed :p :/ ) I tried advancing this effect a bit: