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Re: Various NML related questions

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Hi all!

I am trying to use a random switch to recolor one of the views of an object.

Code is like this:

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random_switch (FEAT_OBJECTS, SELF, RandomColour_01) {
	1: return COLOUR_BLUE;
	2: return COLOUR_RED;
}
But it only recolors to blue... Red never happens, even though (if I understand it correctly) the chance of it should be double that of blue.

Can anyone help? ?(
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Quast65 wrote: 16 Aug 2022 18:03 I am trying to use a random switch to recolor one of the views of an object.
To isolate the issue...does the recolour to red work otherwise (in a test case without a random switch)?
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andythenorth wrote: 16 Aug 2022 19:56
Quast65 wrote: 16 Aug 2022 18:03 I am trying to use a random switch to recolor one of the views of an object.
To isolate the issue...does the recolour to red work otherwise (in a test case without a random switch)?
It will recolor to any color I put first, but to none of the colors I place later on.

Its part of a more elaborate recoloring-code, this is the switch I also use:

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switch (FEAT_OBJECTS, SELF, RandomColour_2x1_Random01, view) {
	0: RandomColour_01;
	1: return COLOUR_ORANGE;
}

What it does is:
View-1, That recolors to the color I put first in the random-switch
View-2, That recolors to Orange (later on I also want to use a random-switch for that too)
View3&4, Recolors to the CC and 2CC, set by the player in that game

The thing I am not sure of, is if it is possible at all to randomly recolor objects...
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Quast65 wrote: 16 Aug 2022 20:32 The thing I am not sure of, is if it is possible at all to randomly recolor objects...
I asked on OpenTTD Discord...
[21:53] JGR: The recolour callback is called before the object is placed on the map, so there are no random bits yet...
[21:56] frosch: https://github.com/OpenTTD/OpenTTD/comm ... 77b1c7120d <- there was a similar thing for industries and houses
[21:56] frosch: looks like the same problem was added for objects 🙂
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andythenorth wrote: 16 Aug 2022 21:01 I asked on OpenTTD Discord...
Thnx for asking!
So, If I understand correctly, its not possible at the moment, but maybe in the future?
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Quast65 wrote: 16 Aug 2022 21:25 So, If I understand correctly, its not possible at the moment, but maybe in the future?
Yes not possible currently, could be possible in future - it would need a change for objects, similar to the change that was made for houses. :wink:
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andythenorth wrote: 17 Aug 2022 09:08 Yes not possible currently, could be possible in future - it would need a change for objects, similar to the change that was made for houses. :wink:
Righto! Thanks Andy for clearing that up!
Hope it gets implimented, as it is a very handy feature ;-)
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