Set Vehicle Colors

Overview

• Node Name: Set Vehicle Colors
• Category: repeat_instant
• File: extensions/flowgraph/nodes/vehicle/colors.lua

Sets the primary, secondary, and tertiary paint colors on a vehicle. Each color pin uses the vehicle color format (baseColor RGBA + metallic paint parameters).

Pin Schema

Input Pins

Legacy Pins

Internals

Key Methods

Color Mapping

How It Works

1. The node resolves the vehicle object by ID (or defaults to the player vehicle).
2. For each non-nil color pin, it extracts an 8-element array: [r, g, b, a, metallic1, metallic2, metallic3, metallic4].
3. createVehiclePaint({x,y,z,w}, {metallic params}) produces a paint table with baseColor.
4. The base color is converted to linear color space via ColorF(...):asLinear4F() and assigned to the appropriate vehicle property.
5. All paint data is collected into a table and applied via obj:setMetallicPaintData(paintsData).

Usage Example

-- In a flowgraph:
-- [Color Provider (red)] → color1 → [Set Vehicle Colors] ← vehId ← [Get Player Vehicle]
--
-- Color values are 8-element arrays:
-- {r, g, b, a, metallic1, metallic2, metallic3, metallic4}

-- Programmatic equivalent:
local paint = createVehiclePaint({x=1, y=0, z=0, w=1}, {0.5, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0})
obj.color = ColorF(paint.baseColor[1], paint.baseColor[2], paint.baseColor[3], paint.baseColor[4]):asLinear4F()
obj:setMetallicPaintData({[1] = paint})

Key Dependencies

• createVehiclePaint() - converts color arrays into paint data structures
• ColorF:asLinear4F() - converts sRGB color to linear color space
• obj:setMetallicPaintData() - applies metallic paint properties to vehicle

See Also

• Align for Coupling (Flowgraph Node) - Related reference
• Apply Velocity to Vehicle (Flowgraph Node) - Related reference
• Boost Vehicle (Flowgraph Node) - Related reference
• FlowGraph Guide - Guide