How to change the color of trailers?

[xhellcat]

Hello, I'm using a mod that changes all trailers to livestock trailers. The default color of the trailers is a very ugly green so I wanted to change that color to the color of my truck (simple red). I've tried forerunners "painted trailers" mods which are supposed to work on livestock trailers as well, but I can't get it to work. So I started editing my savegame, I already found out how to edit the color of my truck and edit the mass of my trailer, but what values do I have to change in order to get a red trailer? I've seen so many players with pink, red, blue, black ... livestock trailers so it should be possible somehow but I can't figure out what exactly to edit. Thanks in advance

[Spieker]

Most of the time when editing colors you have to edit base_color: () which stores an RGB value. This means that this value has three "channels" (Red, Green and Blue).

For example, base_color: (1, 1, 1) is white, base_color: (0, 0, 0) is black. If you want a red trailer, you only need the red channel, so it's just base_color: (1, 0, 0) and so on.

Please note that SCS' values are slighly different from normal RGB values: normally, the range from 0-255 each but in ETS, they only go from 0-1 which means you have to use decimal numbers (for example, Scanias "Scorpio Red" is exactly "base_color : (0.2379, 0.0101, 0.0101)".)

 

I hope this helped and if you have more questions, you can also send me a PM

 

edit: to use custom colors, you also always need to have the "default" skin of the trailer (for example "def/vehicle/trailer/krone/profiliner/company_paint_job/default.sii")

Edited March 15, 2017 by Spieker

[LordBenji]

If you want the exact formula, it's (x*x) / (255*255), where the '*' is multiplication, '/' is division, and x being the value (red, green, blue). Or you can simply get the RGB to ETS2 color mod which tells you what the values you can put to get the color you want.

[Claros]

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