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Posted: **Wed Jul 16, 2025 10:58 pm**

Example entity:

--- @type data.SimpleEntityWithOwnerPrototype
local static_test = {
  type = "simple-entity-with-owner",
  name = "picture_test",
  collision_box = { { -0.9, -0.9 }, { 0.9, 0.9 } },
  selection_box = { { -1, -1 }, { 1, 1 } },
  picture =
  {
    layers = {
      {
        filename = "__Test__/sprites/circle.png",
        width = 64,
        height = 64,
        scale = 1,
        shift = util.by_pixel_hr(-64, 0),
        blend_mode = "additive",
      },
      {
        filename = "__Test__/sprites/circle.png",
        width = 64,
        height = 64,
        scale = 1,
        shift = util.by_pixel_hr(64, 0),
        blend_mode = "additive",
        apply_runtime_tint = true,
      },
    }
  }
}

Simple sprite - white circle in black square. Put twice next to each other, both times with `blend_mode = "additive"`, one time with `apply_runtime_tint = true`.

: circle.png (709 Bytes) Viewed 156 times

When rendered in game, the non-tinted circle is rendered as expected, but the tinted has a dark square around it.

: render_error.png (3.32 KiB) Viewed 156 times

Curiously, the dark square is smaller than the full original image.

Animations have the same exact problem.

Posted: **Thu Jul 17, 2025 1:53 pm**

From first thinking about this, I highly suspect this is a "working correctly/you can't do that" scenario. Tinting a black section of the image will virtually always result in it being less-black due to how tints work (a + b / 2). Then you do additive blend rendering and a semi-transparent black section rendered against the normal background gets what you see.

Unless I'm missing something - you simply can't do what you're trying to do.

Posted: **Thu Jul 17, 2025 6:08 pm**

The reasons I believe that it's a bug:

- The behavior is different from static tints defined in the prototype (the right circle):

: more_tints.png (4.22 KiB) Viewed 92 times

- The dark square around is smaller than the original image. Here's the same, but with normal blending mode for comparison:

: blend_normal.png (3.88 KiB) Viewed 92 times

- Regardless of what the final color/alpha of the sprite is, result of the blending in additive mode should never be darker than the background. Which is not the case here.

Tinting a black section of the image will virtually always result in it being less-black due to how tints work (a + b / 2)

Static tints are multiplicative. Which is why default tint of {r=1, g=1, b=1, a=1} leaves the sprite unchanged. So, black color stays always black regardless of the tint.
For runtime tints I'd expect the same.

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