Vehicle RGB color from map file is not set under certain circumstance

[patrikjuvonen]

Describe the bug If the color attribute, provided in RGB, for a vehicle in map file is same as current m_Color (currently both RGB and palette are initialized as 0, 0, 0, 0 in CVehicleColor), the provided color will be ignored and will use randomized color.

To reproduce Will not be set (interpreted as RGB):

<vehicle color="0,0,0"></vehicle>
<vehicle color="0,0,0,0,0,0"></vehicle>
<vehicle color="0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0"></vehicle>
<vehicle color="0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0"></vehicle>

Will be set (interpreted as RGB different from own RGB value):

<vehicle color="0,0,1"></vehicle>
<vehicle color="0,0,0,0,0,1"></vehicle>
<vehicle color="0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1"></vehicle>
<vehicle color="0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1"></vehicle>

Will be set (interpreted as palette color):

<vehicle color="0"></vehicle>
<vehicle color="0,0"></vehicle>
<vehicle color="0,0,0,0"></vehicle>
<vehicle color="0,0,0,0,0"></vehicle>
<vehicle color="0,0,0,0,0,0"></vehicle>
<vehicle color="0,0,0,0,0,0,0"></vehicle>
<vehicle color="0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0"></vehicle>
<vehicle color="0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0"></vehicle>
<vehicle color="0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0"></vehicle>
<vehicle color="0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0"></vehicle>

Expected behaviour Vehicle color should be set to the provided color.

Version Multi Theft Auto v1.5.7-release-20402

Additional context

• First discovered in #263

• Perhaps add a force attribute for the affected color functions: SetRGBColors, SetPaletteColors. See previous work done for this in #263@00ad397, #263@ff052d3 and #263@274d9b3.

• We have to evaluate backwards-compatibility before anyone starts to work on this issue.

  Originally posted by @Woovie in https://github.com/multitheftauto/mtasa-blue/pull/263#issuecomment-575700932:

  I contacted AfuSensi on Discord, who owns/operates/works on Mr. Green's

  Search "<vehicle.*color="0,0,0" (1485 hits in 167 files) Search "<vehicle.*color="([1-255]{1,3}),\1,\1" (82 hits in 33 files)

  Around 2500 maps total, and this is the total amount of returns.

[ChronosXYZ]

Any news about this issue? Is there a workaround for this?

[patrikjuvonen]

Any news about this issue? Is there a workaround for this?

For now you can use the black color provided by the palette, for example:

<vehicle color="0"></vehicle>
<vehicle color="0,0"></vehicle>
<vehicle color="0,0,0,0"></vehicle>

Will not work:

<vehicle color="0,0,0"></vehicle>

[Pirulax]

"backwards compatibility" nah. Is there any kind of version attribute in the map file? Or would this really be an issue?