How can I access the advanced color effects through actionscript

[Serifaz]

Hello I am trying to modify the color effect of a movieclip my problem is the only way animate does this from what I can see is through the advanced settings of color effects in the editor 

Image here.

Is there any way to access these features in as3.

Essentially I just want to make a color picker that can modify the movieclip's advanced color effects.

If anyone has an example of that, it would be very helpful.

[ClayUUID]

https://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/geom/ColorTransform.html

[Serifaz]

I tried this but it turns the whole clip a solid color. Whereas the advanced color settings just change the hue of the movieclip.

[ClayUUID · Accepted solution]

Then you did it wrong. That API is how you tint things.

[Serifaz]

I ended up making an overlay clip to cast the color on the object. I couldnt figure out how to do it otherwise.

[ClayUUID]

// clip to tint, color (0 - 0xFFFFFF), saturation (0 - 1)
function tintClip(clip, color, sat) {
	var ct:ColorTransform = clip.transform.colorTransform;
	var r:int = color >> 16;
	var g:int = color >> 8 & 0xFF;
	var b:int = color & 0xFF;
	clip.transform.colorTransform = new ColorTransform(
		1 - sat,
		1 - sat,
		1 - sat,
		ct.alphaMultiplier,
		r * sat,
		g * sat,
		b * sat,
		ct.alphaOffset);
}

Or more compact:

function tintClip(clip, color, sat) {
	var ct:ColorTransform = clip.transform.colorTransform;
	clip.transform.colorTransform = new ColorTransform(1 - sat, 1 - sat, 1 - sat, ct.alphaMultiplier, (color >> 16) * sat, (color >> 8 & 0xFF) * sat, (color & 0xFF) * sat, ct.alphaOffset);
}

[Serifaz]

Thank you soo much!

[Serifaz]

I'm still having a little trouble with your code. I messed around with the saturation. and tried to get the image to change color from greyscale.

Essentially I just want to change the images base colors so that instead of say grey and dark grey. it would have red and dark red.

I tried to set the saturation to 1 and -1 but it just either inverts colors or brightens them.

Can you tell me how to call the function to get the desired result.

Essentially I want to be able to modify this.

To something like this.