Problems with Colors in Unity 2D

Unity Engine
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Hey! I’m relatively new to Unity and I’m having some trouble with changing colours of game objects that I can’t find explanations for online.

The first one is pretty simple: when i try to assign a color to an object via script:

GetComponent<Renderer>().material.color = new Color32(...);

I always get a darker color than the rbg code I chose from the inspector.
So if I chose new Color32(0,255,227,255); , i would still get blue but a much darker one.
Same thing happens if I try to get random colours, they all seem to be the same each time, and very dark.
I already tried creating a public Color in the script and selecting the one i wanted via inspector to no luck. Using HSV and just Color() also hasn’t worked.

The second one is a bit more tricky, i’m running this:

void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D collision){
 GetComponent<Renderer>().material.color= collision.gameObject.GetComponent<Renderer>().material.color;
}

To make the player get the colour of the Triggering object when he triggers it, but nothing changes at all.

I’ve looked everywhere but couldn’t find a solution to this, maybe i’m just missing something very obvious. Thank you for your time!

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Hello @TheKidsDontStandAChance ,
What kind of material/shader are you using on the object you are trying change color on?
Also, what color space is your project in? (Edit > Project Settings > Player > Color Space)

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The material is just Sprites-Default and the color space is Gamma.

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Is your renderer a SpriteRenderer?
If that is the case, try to use SpriteRenderer.color (Unity - Scripting API: SpriteRenderer.color) instead.

As to why your code is creating a darker result, I can’t reproduce this when using your code. You could share some screenshots to show what you are seeing as well, that might give me some more insight.

5

Well, using SpriteRenderer.color fixed the OnTriggerEnter problem, thank you!
I’ll have a go at the first one now.

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