- Place a Lamp with "Use colors" --> "Color Components" (or use Blueprint provided)
- Set an appropriate Enable condition (or "Always On")
- Save as Scenario
- Exit to Main Menu (or Restart game completely)
- Load Scenario (so that the game starts "Paused")
Lamps connected to a Circuit are rendered with the Default Beige color (255-255-191), not with the Values at-rest on the Circuit Network, for exactly one tick.
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Lamps would render with the same Color that they had when the Game/Scenario was Saved. The Circuit Network already has the Values "on the wire", and the RGB numbers in the Lamp's UI seems to indicate that it "knows about" these values.
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Every time a Scenario (or Game which does not automatically Tick/begin Play) is Loaded, for exactly one tick.
I first noticed this behavior a few days ago, on 2.0.38, but it seems to have been there for a long time (haven't checked 1.1). I spent about an hour debugging my Combinator Display "flickering" colors, before I figured out it was an issue in the base game - not my Mods (I had one which changed the Lamp sprite; still evident without it as in screenshot). I have searched the Forums for "lamp", "color", and "tick", with no relevant matches.... this is a very Minor Graphical issue - it only happens for 1 Tick when the Game is first loaded.
It also seems like there is a Saturation difference between Lamps setup with the Eyedropper (top row), and which receive a Circuit Signal (bottom row). I cannot think of any reasonable use case for having perfect color rendering with the Lamps..... we do not need to render Pixel art in perfect 16/24/32-bit color
. I don't think I have ever used a Lamp for colors other than White, without also connecting a Wire. I am only mentioning it because I had to double-check that I got the RGB values correct after looking at the Screenshot - did not notice it In-Game.Thanks for reading!
