[CODE SNIPPET] Marker Color Names to Arrays

[austin_medic 109]

I'm not quite sure why the getMarkerColor command returns a string instead of an array of RGBA values that make up the color. Though it's a bit annoying when you need the RGBA values but only have a string, which is why I made up this little function to convert the color strings to arrays:

[spoiler]AUSMD_markerColorToArray =
{
_color = _this select 0;
_ret = [0,0,0,1]; //default value
switch(_color) do
{
	case "Default": {_ret = [0,0,0,1];};
	case "ColorBlack": {_ret = [0,0,0,1];};
	case "ColorBlue": {_ret = [0,0,1,1];};
	case "ColorGreen": {_ret = [0,1,0,1];};
	case "ColorWhite": {_ret = [1,1,1,1];};
	case "ColorPink": {_ret = [0.980,0.196,0.784,1];};
	case "colorBlue": {_ret = [0,0,1,1];};
	case "ColorGrey": {_ret = [0.5,0.5,1];};
	case "ColorYellow": {_ret = [1,1,0.0588,1];};
	case "ColorRed": {_ret = [1,0,0,1];};
	case "ColorRedAlpha": {_ret = [1,0,0,1];};
	case "ColorGreenAlpha": {_ret = [0,1,0,1];};
	case "colorBLUFOR": {_ret = [0,0,1,1];};
	case "ColorCIV": {_ret = [0.72549,0,1,1];};
	case "ColorCivilian": {_ret = [0.72549,0,1,1];};
	case "ColorEast": {_ret = [1,0,0,1];};
	case "ColorGUER": {_ret = [0,1,0,1];};
	case "ColorUNKNOWN": {_ret = [0,0,0,1];};
	case "Color1_FD_F": {_ret = [0.694,0.2,0.223,1];};
	case "Color2_FD_F": {_ret = [0.678,0.749,0.513,1];};
	case "Color3_FD_F": {_ret = [0.941176,0.509804,0.192157,1];};
	case "Color4_FD_F": {_ret = [0.403922,0.545098,0.607843,1];};
	};
_ret
};[/spoiler]

[Larrow 2804]

You could have just looked it up in the config CFGMarkerColors.

_color = _this select 0;
_colorArrayRGBA = getArray ( configfile >> "CfgMarkerColors" >> _color >> "color" );
if ( _colorArrayRGBA isEqualTo [] ) then {
_colorArrayRGBA = [ 0, 0, 0, 1 ];
};

[austin_medic 109]

You could have just looked it up in the config CFGMarkerColors.

_color = _this select 0;
_colorArrayRGBA = getArray ( configfile >> "CfgMarkerColors" >> _color >> "color" );
if ( _colorArrayRGBA isEqualTo [] ) then {
_colorArrayRGBA = [ 0, 0, 0, 1 ];
};

That doesnt work for all colors. For some of them it returns some weird GUI variable string that the player sets for the faction colors.

[moricky 210]

There's a function for that ;)

_colorRGBA = (configfile >> "CfgMarkerColors" >> _color >> "color") call BIS_fnc_colorConfigToRGBA;

[Larrow 2804]

For some of them it returns some weird GUI variable string that the player sets for the faction colors.

They are code as a string, these only need to be call compiled to retrieve the profileNamespace variables contents...

_color = _this select 0;
_colorRGBA = getArray ( configfile >> "CfgMarkerColors" >> _color >> "color" );
if ( _colorRGBA isEqualTo  [] ) then {
_colorRGBA = [ 0, 0, 0, 1 ];	
}else{
if ( typeName ( _colorRGBA select 0 ) == typeName "" ) then {
	{
		_colorRGBA set [ _forEachIndex, call compile _x ];
	}forEach _colorRGBA;
}; 
};
_colorRGBA

or as Moricky shows, use his helper function thats already available.