Tinting a truecolor sprite via translations

[Rip and Tear]

Say I have a grayscale truecolor sprite in my mod. I'd like to use different colorized versions of this sprite— basically, using the brightness information in the sprite while applying hue/saturation values of some color across the entire sprite.

Is this something that could be done through GZDoom's translation features, or would I need to include a sprite for every color I'd want?

[Gez]

Unfortunately, translation effects only apply to palette indices. Therefore when you apply a translation to a truecolor sprite, it is first forced into the palette, and then translated. Hopefully, the gray range in the palette is sufficiently large and granular that the image quality will not suffer too much.

[Graf Zahl]

There's other colorization options. To evaluate what's right for you and determine if it can be done, can you post an example?

[Rip and Tear]

There's other colorization options. To evaluate what's right for you and determine if it can be done, can you post an example?

Sure, take a look at https://github.com/perfectionismtech/Cr ... tes/flares. FLREA0 is the base sprite, B-G are the manually recolored sprites.