Change color on runtime

[Spekkio]

Hello,

I have been learning modding and lua by replacing the construction and logistics robots with units from Starcraft 1 and i would like to color them the same as the player like the vanilla turrets do.

It seems the robots lack the atribute turrets have to do this, so i have been trying to draw an animation on top of each robot. However searching every robot to draw the mask is very resource intensive and i can´t get the animation to align with the floating movement neither wont follow the robot entering roboports.

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I have run out of ideas, is there a better way to do this?

[DaveMcW]

If you have a limited set of colors, you could create a unique robot entity for each color. Then assign each force a recipe that gives their color robot.