How to color train wagons?

[Usul]

Hi!

I loaded my 1.1.110 factorio with 2.0 Base Game and 2.0 Space Age and noticed that some of my trains have colored wagons.

How do I color trains in a new factory started in 2.0 Base Game and 2.0 Space Age? There is no color picker in the train wagon UI.

Thanks!

[robot256]

Try copying them from a colored locomotive and pasting into a cargo wagon (with shift-right/left click). I forget if that actually worked but the only other way I know is with console command/mods.

[Usul]

I tried copying to color from loco to wagon, but it doesn't work.

[yrogerg77]

I am also curious about this feature... the game does not seem to apply these wagon colors automatically, so I'm not sure where they came from. Placing a new train or even adding a car to an existing train does not inherit the color of the locomotive at all. Only the pre-existing trains from the converted pre-2.0 save have colors on the wagons.

[Usul]

No, I have seen train colors in post-2.0 games. It works mostly for long trains when "use destination train stop color" is checked in the loco color picker. the color is applied to the train once it cycles to the next station in it's schedule. However coloring wagons does not work for trains with only 1 wagon. Strange. This is probably a bug.

Yeah, I know what you mean. I have loaded my 1.1 base with over 100 trains into 2.0 and randomly some trains turned out colored and some did not. Its really weird.

[yrogerg77]

Yeah, I made a train on Vulcanus with 3 wagons... but the colors did not apply to the wagon. Maybe I need to do things in a specific order for it to work? I am not sure what the problem is, but it could very well be a bug.

[IsaacOscar]

This sounds like you're using a mod, or some custom lua. Or maybe even a bug in the save migration?
Because they definitely don't get coloured in my version of factorio.

[Paper02]

This sounds like you're using a mod, or some custom lua. Or maybe even a bug in the save migration?
Because they definitely don't get coloured in my version of factorio.

It could be some shenanigans with the save migration, and it can blueprinted!

this is a white cargo wagon, and it will not inherit the locomotive's right away color but it will change if the train's color is set to be the same as the next station. You can later use shift left/right click to copy and paste it onto other cargo wagons.

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[IsaacOscar]

This sounds like you're using a mod, or some custom lua. Or maybe even a bug in the save migration?
Because they definitely don't get coloured in my version of factorio.

It could be some shenanigans with the save migration, and it can blueprinted!

this is a white cargo wagon, and it will not inherit the locomotive's right away color but it will change if the train's color is set to be the same as the next station. You can later use shift left/right click to copy and paste it onto other cargo wagons.

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Wow, awesome thank you!
By using this site, https://factorio.tmin10.ru/, I can see the cargo wagon has th efollowing:

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                "copy_color_from_train_stop": true,
                "color": {
                    "r": 1,
                    "g": 1,
                    "b": 1,
                    "a": 0.49803921580314636
                },

So I made a blueprint of my own train, added a color section to the wagons, and I got this:

Screenshot 2024-12-04 120336.png (1.27 MiB) Viewed 1628 times

(So the fluid wagons sadly don't change colour).

[IsaacOscar]

Oh just a warning, but https://factorio.tmin10.ru/ seems to be corrupting my train stop names,
(and this mod here https://mods.factorio.com/mod/FluidWagonColorMask fixes the problem with fluid wagons)

[yrogerg77]

No mods here... my game has been 100% vanilla. It certainly could have been something with the save migration though, not sure.

I appreciate the blueprint, but unfortunately it did not work for me. When I tried to import it into my game, it gave me an error: "invalid base64 padding"

[IsaacOscar]

No mods here... my game has been 100% vanilla. It certainly could have been something with the save migration though, not sure.

I appreciate the blueprint, but unfortunately it did not work for me. When I tried to import it into my game, it gave me an error: "invalid base64 padding"

There seems to be something wrong with the forum and/or that post, try copying this:

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[yrogerg77]

No mods here... my game has been 100% vanilla. It certainly could have been something with the save migration though, not sure.

I appreciate the blueprint, but unfortunately it did not work for me. When I tried to import it into my game, it gave me an error: "invalid base64 padding"

There seems to be something wrong with the forum and/or that post, try copying this:

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0eNptUdtuwyAM/Rc/0yohl5X8SjUhwmhmjeAISLuqyr/PpJO2h74Y25hzjg8PGP3qloghw/AAtBQSDOcHJJyC8aUXzOxggGjQwyYAw4f7hqHexIsha+JEh5uZKPybldu7ABcyZnRP9L2467DOo4sMJl4BCFgo8RtOmYFxDrVUAu6cyFoeq6pRVS+7rWCb0TvtacKU0SZ9+0SuZ7pimGC4GJ+cAIrIvOYJWAmwtNy1JU9RXyLNOvOKQadMCww5rq5M8GUhf2qc9jju0TDEsVUnFiHrjo+67ZteNlXbn966ffcrs1FkuWH1vljA0PaLGUNwtqj4dbp0i6E8gdnN7MLfnwi4uph2xV0vVatU1yp56ttq234AdraQ/Q==

Thanks! This totally worked! Weird note, however... when I pasted the blueprint for the cargo wagon attached to a nearby locomotive, the bots placed it way off-center. Not sure why that happened, as I've never seen it before. The game corrected it when the train began moving though, and the wagons changed color to match the locomotive as they should! Amazing!

[Usul]

Topic is "How to color train wagons?"

Award for anyone who succeeds in coloring a 1-1 (one wagon) train wagon in Vanilla 2.0 and describing the exact steps.

I have suceeded in coloring trains with more than one wagon.

I think it's a bug that it doesnt work for 1-1- trains., but I'm a bit tired of reporting many bugs since 2.0 launch, that I have not had much time to actually play the game. I've collected lots of bug points. Several of my reports were fixed but some ignored as "not a bug" which is demotivating. Please someone else report this bug. Thanks!

[IsaacOscar]

Topic is "How to color train wagons?"

Award for anyone who succeeds in coloring a 1-1 (one wagon) train wagon in Vanilla 2.0 and describing the exact steps.

I have suceeded in coloring trains with more than one wagon.

I think it's a bug that it doesnt work for 1-1- trains., but I'm a bit tired of reporting many bugs since 2.0 launch, that I have not had much time to actually play the game. I've collected lots of bug points. Several of my reports were fixed but some ignored as "not a bug" which is demotivating. Please someone else report this bug. Thanks!

As I explained above, this can be done by manually editing blueprint strings:
For example:

Screenshot 2024-12-10 194722.png (360.4 KiB) Viewed 1391 times

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[Usul]

Thanks! But: Checking "Use train stop color" in loco color picker updates color of wagons only if train has more than one wagon. ->Bug

[IsaacOscar]

Thanks! But: Checking "Use train stop color" in loco color picker updates color of wagons only if train has more than one wagon. ->Bug

It works for me.
before moving:

Screenshot 2024-12-10 201723.png (334.66 KiB) Viewed 1377 times

once moving:

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[IsaacOscar]

Also, in case anyone else comes to this thread and doesn't like manually editing blueprint strings, I made a lua snippet:

1. Load the map editor
2. Make a locomotive with the colour settings you want (a custom colour and/or colour from destination)
3. Click the bottom on the top-left with the scroll and </>
4. pase in the following lua code:

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   for _, e in pairs(game.player.surface.find_entities_filtered{area=area,type='locomotive'}) do
         local data = { name = 'cargo-wagon', player = game.player }
         for _, field in pairs({'position', 'direction', 'quality', 'force', 'orientation', 'color', 'copy_color_from_train_stop'}) do
               data[field] = e[field] end
         e.destroy{player=game.player}
         game.player.surface.create_entity(data) end

5. Drag your cursor into an area selecting the locomotive
6. It should now have turned into a cargo wagon
7. You can then make a blueprint of it and save it to your library, and use it in a normal save

[IsaacOscar]

Thanks! But: Checking "Use train stop color" in loco color picker updates color of wagons only if train has more than one wagon. ->Bug

Wait, are you talking about a train you've edited via lua commands or the blueprint string, or one you obtained through normal gameplay?
If you have steps to create a two-wagon train that gets coloured, and the same steps on a one-wagon train does not, then definitely file a bug report.
(Although the "bug" is probably going to be the fact you can colour wagons at all).

[Usul]

Yes, I mean without using coding/lua. Just normally acquired.