Color transform help

[prodigalmaster]

Hi

I have no experience with the colour transform class but some with the RGB hexidecimal concept.

Let's use a little pseudo code / actionscript hybrid:

In the following example, which doesn't work, I am trying to remove red and green colour and keep blue. How do I do this?

  colour = 0xFFFFFF;
  colourTrans.rgb = colour;
          red = 0;
          green = 0;
          blue = 1;
          colourTrans.redMultiplier = red;
          colourTrans.greenMultiplier = green;
          colourTrans.blueMultiplier = blue;
          colour = colourTrans.rgb;
  // colour outputs 0, not the new blue colour

Thanks.

[kglad]

use the colormatrixfilter:

var matrix:Array;

var filter:BitmapFilter

function blueF(image:MovieClip):Void{

     matrix=[];

    matrix = matrix.concat([0, 0, 0, 0, 0]); // red

    matrix = matrix.concat([0, 0, 0, 0, 0]); // green

    matrix = matrix.concat([0, 0, 1, 0, 0]); // blue

    matrix = matrix.concat([0, 0, 0, 1, 0]); // alpha

    filter = new ColorMatrixFilter(matrix);

    image.filters = [filter];

}

[prodigalmaster]

Thanks but the example I gave was far more simplified to get my point across saying I don't know how to *get* the value from the colourTrans... the way I am actually doing it is quite complicated and requires the colour multipliers so I can get a sequence of colours:

import flash.geom.ColorTransform;

import flash.geom.Transform;

var colourTrans:ColorTransform = new ColorTransform();

var colourBG:Number = 0x000000;

var colour:Number = 0xFFFFFF;

var frequency = 0.3;

var count = 0;

onEnterFrame = function () {

          colourTrans.rgb = colour;

          count += frequency;

          red = Math.sin(frequency*count);

          green = Math.sin(frequency*count+2);

          blue = Math.sin(frequency*count+4);

          colourTrans.redMultiplier = red;

          colourTrans.greenMultiplier = green;

          colourTrans.blueMultiplier = blue;

          colour = colourTrans.rgb;

          trace(colour);

//...

};

[kglad]

then don't abstract what you're trying to do.  just explain what you're trying to do.

[prodigalmaster]

Basically for each frame (onEnterFrame), return a new colour so that over time the colour turns from red to green to blue to red... like a rainbow... a sequence of colours. The red, green, and blue Math.sin code above uses the correct multipliers I think to do this (the offset is not exactly correct (2 and 4) but good enough...

again.. all I need is a way to output the colour after the multipliers have altered the inputted colour, each frame.

Unless there is another way to do this such as with matrixes (which I again have no experience with).

Thanks.

edit: and when I mean output a colour I mean store the number for the colour in the 'colour' variable.

[kglad · Accepted solution]

use:

class com.kglad.Color_AS2 {

    // example usage:

    /*

    import com.kglad.Color_AS2;

    import flash.geom.ColorTransform;

    Color_AS2.colorChangeF();

    var ct:ColorTransform = mc.transform.colorTransform;

    this.onEnterFrame = function(){

    ct.rgb = Color_AS2.colorF();

    mc.transform.colorTransform = ct

    }

    */

    static var red:Object = new Object();

    static var green:Object = new Object();

    static var blue:Object = new Object();

    static var colorValueA:Array = [15, 0, 128];

    static var colorA:Array = [red, green, blue];

    static var colorChangeA:Array = [1, -1];

    static var primeA:Array = [3, 5, 7];

    function Color_AS2() {

    }

    static function colorChangeF() {

        for (var i:Number = 0; i < colorA.length; i++) {

            colorA.val = Math.floor(Math.random() * 256);

            colorA.colorChange = 2 * Math.round(Math.random()) - 1;

        }

    }

    static function colorF(n:Number):Number {

        if (!n) {

            n = 0;

        }

        if (n % 2000 == 1) {

            colorChangeF();

        }

        for (var i:Number = 0; i < colorA.length; i++) {

            colorA.val += primeA * colorA.colorChange;

            if (colorA.val > 255) {

                colorA.val = 254;

                colorA.colorChange *= -1;

            } else if (colorA.val < 0) {

                colorA.val = 1;

                colorA.colorChange *= -1;

            }

        }

        return colorA[0].val << 16 | colorA[1].val << 8 | colorA[2].val;

    }

}