Confused About Colors

#1 You can use the command "setBlendColor", so:

%object.setBlendColor(258, 128, 128, 1);

OR you can edit the property "blendColor" directly, so:

%object.blendColor = "258 128 128 1";

Note that in the latter case the color is a string.

Edit: Looked up syntax, setBlendColor normally takes four parameters, not sure if it breaks up a string.

#2 And another note, if you leave out the last element of the string in %object.blendColor (%object.blendColor = "255 255 0" for instance) then it is set to maximum - unless something changed.

#3 Thanks everyone! Now I'm having a problem, and want to know if anyone can find out why. Here is a copy of my test project: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/18965446/RBY%20Food%20Test2.zip

It's pretty simple, a randomized scrolling background, and a copy of the PointForce Toy's planetoid in the middle. Currently I'm testing the color of the planetoid, as you can see in the /Modules/MyModule/2/scripts/bodynode.cs file:

//yellow
		//%object.setBlendColor(255, 255, 0, 0.7);  
		
		//red
		//%object.setBlendColor(255, 0, 00, 0.7);  
		
		//blue
		//%object.setBlendColor(0, 0, 255, 0.7);  
		
		
		//color tests
		//Green
		//%object.setBlendColor(0, 255, 0, 0.7);  
		
		//Orange
		%object.setBlendColor(255, 165, 0, 1.0);  
		
		//
		//%object.setBlendColor(0, 0, 255, 0.7);  
		
		
		//%object.setBlendColor("Orange");

I have been switching out which piece of code is commented out to see how the different colors look. I'm using the color.cc file's listings as a reference for the values.

Now here's the problem. If I want to use the values for Red, Yellow, Blue, Green, or Purple they show up perfectly. If I put in the value for Orange it shows up as Yellow. If I load it via the StockColorItem name it loads the color as Orange. Here are how the values show up for the Green spectrum (the second value):

255, 0, 0, 1.0 is Red.
255, 1, 0, 1.0 is Yellow.
255, ANYTHING, 0, 1.0 is still Yellow.

So, is this a bug that I need to report? Or is there something flawed in what I am doing?

#4 Thanks to Xifos on the IRC Channel, we found out what I was doing wrong:

%object.setBlendColor(255/255, 165/255, 0/255, 1.0);

This works correctly.

#5 Then it seems that all parameters are supposed to be floating point values from 0.0 to 1.0.

What you have there is equivalent to

%object.setBlendColor(1.0, 0.647, 0.0, 1.0);

Huh... that's new - But it is clearly documented in the definition:

ConsoleMethod(SceneObject, setBlendColor, void, 3, 6,   "(float red, float green, float blue, [float alpha = 1.0]) or ( stockColorName ) - Sets the blend color."
                                                        "@param red The red value.\n"
                                                        "@param green The green value.\n"
                                                        "@param blue The blue value.\n"
                                                        "@param alpha The alpha value.\n"
                                                        "@return No return Value.")

from SceneObject_ScriptBinding.h @ around line 3200.