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Many objects in Factorio come in different colors. Some are items+entities, like inserters and belts and assemblers. Some are just items, like science packs.

I'd like to have a way to read their "color" in the control stage, which would probably require a new field in the data stage to describe what is currently only present in the sprites (for sprites that don't use tint).

As things sit right now, a lot of different mods just hard-code some approximate yellow-ish color to represent yellow belts and inserters. That could be standardized and easier to keep up to date if the info was published as part of the Prototype

See: viewtopic.php?f=221&t=69367&p=423745#p423745 and my reply here is: no.

(replying here instead of there because this response would make no sense there without context)

Rseding91 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2019 8:56 pm Additionally, there is no such thing as a "color" for a science pack. That's a made up concept by you/others. That's why you're having such a hard time making it work: it's not a real thing. Like trying to nail imaginary jello to the wall - you're 5 problems deep in something you just can't do.

It's a *valuable* made-up concept.

Disco Science mod is just one example.

Consider my Wreckage Pollution mod, which makes "chemical spill" entities to match the colors of fluids. I can do this, because fluids do (after a modding api request that fortunately wasn't rejected) have a readable color. If I wanted to make building corpses match the "color" of the building (if it had one), I couldn't, because you say that color isn't a real thing.

Maybe I want to make a mod that allows mixing and separating of science packs, and I want my sprites to be tinted the appropriate mixed colors.

Maybe I want to make some of my biters color-sensitive, like bees seeking out yellow but not purple flowers?