Can't set colour of quad?

Garry's Mod coding
#1

So I’m drawing this quad, but it always turns out white no matter what. Code:

[lua]
local matWhite = Material( “color/white” )

// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Draw3D2DLine - Renders a line in 3D space
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
function render.Draw3D2DLine( startpos, endpos, normal, colour, thickness )
// Calculate coords
local dir = (endpos-startpos):Normalize()
local dir_right = dir:Angle():Right()
local dir_left = dir_right*-1
local c1 = startpos + (dir_leftthickness0.5)
local c2 = startpos + (dir_rightthickness0.5)
local c3 = endpos + (dir_leftthickness0.5)
local c4 = endpos + (dir_rightthickness0.5)

// Render
render.SetMaterial( matWhite )
render.SuppressEngineLighting( true )
 render.SetColorModulation( 0, 1, 0 )
render.DrawQuad( c1, c3, c4, c2 )
 render.SetColorModulation( 1, 1, 1 )
 render.SuppressEngineLighting( false )

end[/lua]

color/white.vmt:


"UnlitGeneric"
{
	"$basetexture" "color/white"
	"$vertexalpha" 	1
}

The line itself draws perfectly in every way apart from the colour.

Now you may be thinking “of course it’s white, you chose the color/white material dumbass” but surely, the color modulation stuff should allow me to manipulate the colour exactly?

[editline]06:05PM[/editline]

Just realised I have no idea why I passed in a parameter called “normal” but oh well.

#2

The “color/white” material is missing the $vertexcolor parameter that would allow you to modulate its rendering color. Copying that VMT, with the added line


$vertexcolor 1

should solve your problem.

#3

Didn’t work. I’m also trying to get alpha to work, which has the same problem.

[lua] render.SetMaterial( matLine )
render.SetBlend( colour.a/255 )
render.SetColorModulation( 0, 1, 0 )
render.DrawQuad( c1, c3, c4, c2 )
render.SetBlend( 1 )[/lua]


"UnlitGeneric"
{
	"$basetexture" "color/white"
	"$vertexalpha" 	1
	"$vertexcolor" 	1
}

http://www.fortfn.co.uk/images/gm_flatgrass0007.jpg

I’m passing this colour structure in, if it makes a difference: Color( 250, 250, 150, 180 )

I tried switching the texture too, to random textures like silkicons and stuff but there’s still no color or alpha change.

#4

That is odd. Take a look at DrawQuadEasy—it takes a color parameter, and I’m pretty sure I’ve used that successfully before.

#5

I don’t know id you did take in consideration http://wiki.garrysmod.com/?title=Render.DrawQuadEasy , there is a color parameter. And I already used it and it works so… yeah. xD

#6

I would’ve suggested the same thing, but DrawQuadEasy doesn’t appear to take an orientation parameter about its normal, and as he’s trying to draw a line, that isn’t really helpful.

#7

I did try DrawQuadEasy, and although I couldn’t get it to be in the correct orientation like mahalis said, I did manage to get it visible for a few seconds to see that I had exactly the same problem with that too. But I’ll mess with it some more, see if I can get the orientation right.

I don’t suppose it’s anything todo with my hardware, my dev machine has a dx8 card?

#8

Are you double positive that every material you use for this is correctly set to $vertexcolor 1? This has happened to me before when using some particles for an effect. $vertexcolor, if you didn’t already know, allows the engine to apply color transformations to a material in real time, allowing you to do what you’ve been wanting.

Good luck :biggrin:

[editline]11:54PM[/editline]

If that’s definitely not the case, I’m not sure what the problem could be. Maybe invite someone who’s directx level is v9 and see if that changes it?

Makes me almost 98% positive that directx 8 doesn’t support the color modulation of rendered quads.

#9

I’ll try it on my main pc (which has a dx9 card) later and see if it works. Thanks for all ya help, anyway.

#10

try using



local col = Vector(0,1,0) --Green
local white = Vector(1,1,1) --white
matWhite:SetMaterialVector("$color",col)
--put drawing code here
matWhite:SetMaterialVector("$color",white)

I’ve used this method before and it works pretty well, so I think it’s worth giving it a shot for whatever you’re doing.