How do I apply tint to sprites?

[Doctor_Willis]

Hi everyone,

I'm just dipping my toes into modding for the first time, and I've got stuck on applying tints to sprites.

I'm working on a electric pole with maximum supply distance, and I'd like it to be a different colour.
I've figured out how to tint the icon, but not the sprite.
This is what I've got so far:

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local maxDistanceElectricPole = table.deepcopy(data.raw["electric-pole"]["big-electric-pole"])

maxDistanceElectricPole.name = "max-distance-electric-pole"
maxDistanceElectricPole.localised_description = {"item-description.max-distance-electric-pole"}
maxDistanceElectricPole.supply_area_distance = 64
maxDistanceElectricPole.maximum_wire_distance = 64
maxDistanceElectricPole.subgroup = "energy-pipe-distribution"
maxDistanceElectricPole.icons = {
    {
        icon = maxDistanceElectricPole.icon,
        tint = {r= 1.0, g = 0.5, b = 0.5, a = 1}
    }
}

data:extend{maxDistanceElectricPole}

Side note: I'm not sure if I should start a new topic for this, but I can't figure out subgroup order either. It's currently sitting at the end of the logistics group, but I'm not sure how to get it to sit up with its buds in the electric poles and pipes.

[Bilka]

To tint the sprite of the electric pole, you need to apply the tint into its pictures property. By looking at the prototype of the big-electric-pole in the base game files, you can see that it uses layers so the tint needs to be inside the layers. So this code applies the tint to the first layer, but not the shadow, just add it to the rest of your entity code:

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maxDistanceElectricPole.pictures.layers[1].tint = {r= 1.0, g = 0.5, b = 0.5, a = 1}
maxDistanceElectricPole.pictures.layers[1].hr_version.tint = {r= 1.0, g = 0.5, b = 0.5, a = 1}

The other entities are ordered by the subgroup of the items that place them. I would make an item that places the pole (you might already have this, but it's not in your post) and remove the subgroup from the entity itself.

[Doctor_Willis]

Thank you for your help: I didn't have an item for it, so I added one and that did the trick.

I've come up on a new problem though: If one the Max Distance Power poles is placed in world and a player tears it down, they get back the Big Power pole, not the max distance one. I had a look through the wiki, but nothing stood out to me.

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local maxDistanceElectricPoleEntity = table.deepcopy(data.raw["electric-pole"]["big-electric-pole"])

maxDistanceElectricPoleEntity.name = "max-distance-electric-pole-entity"
maxDistanceElectricPoleEntity.localised_description = {"item-description.max-distance-electric-pole-description"}
maxDistanceElectricPoleEntity.supply_area_distance = 64
maxDistanceElectricPoleEntity.maximum_wire_distance = 64
maxDistanceElectricPoleEntity.subgroup = "energy-pipe-distribution"
maxDistanceElectricPoleEntity.icons = {
    {
        icon = maxDistanceElectricPoleEntity.icon,
        tint = {r= 1.0, g = 0.5, b = 0.5, a = 1}
    }
}
maxDistanceElectricPoleEntity.pictures.layers[1].tint = {r= 1.0, g = 0.5, b = 0.5, a = 1}
maxDistanceElectricPoleEntity.pictures.layers[1].hr_version.tint = {r= 1.0, g = 0.5, b = 0.5, a = 1}


local maxDistanceElectricPoleItem = table.deepcopy(data.raw["item"]["big-electric-pole"])

maxDistanceElectricPoleItem.name = "max-distance-electric-pole-item"
maxDistanceElectricPoleItem.subgroup = "energy-pipe-distribution"
maxDistanceElectricPoleItem.order = "a[max-distance-electric-pole-entity]"
maxDistanceElectricPoleItem.place_result = "max-distance-electric-pole-entity"
maxDistanceElectricPoleItem.icons = maxDistanceElectricPoleEntity.icons


data:extend{maxDistanceElectricPoleEntity, maxDistanceElectricPoleItem}

[Bilka]

The item that is returned when the pole is mined is specified by EntityPrototype::minable. So that needs to be changed to the new item.

The code for that

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maxDistanceElectricPoleEntity.minable = {mining_time = 0.1, result = "max-distance-electric-pole-item"}

[Doctor_Willis]

That works. Thanks again!