Ice creams in all colours!

Hello again,

Until now, only the guests got different colours when they entered. In the original game, many more things could have a different colour, amongst others, the shops.

FreeRCT did have a notion of recolouring for quite some time, but either the graphics didn't allow use of it, or it was not really working.

Today, I committed a set of patches that should fix all that. The 32bpp blitter now also does recolouring. I have also added a dropdown to allow selecting a new colour if the random colours are not to your liking.

Last but not least, there is a new shop, the ice cream stall. It's a 32bpp sprite, and as you can see, it comes in all (re)colours.

Colourful people

First of all, thanks everybody for your support. It is good to know that so many people like the project. Some people went a step further and submitted graphics and a translation. Many thanks, except it will be a while before it can be displayed in the game.
If you want to drop in and chat a bit, there is now an IRC channel #freerct at oftc.net. As it was recently created (and this is the first advertisement of its existence), it is still very quiet.

As a next step, I decided to add random colours, so different guests can have differently coloured cloths, shops and rides can be painted in different colours, etc.

At the game-side it was no too complicated, and the windows now have colour too (albeit a bit too intense, it needs further work). At the RCD data-file generation side, I wanted more than possible, so I spend two weeks Python code refactoring and extending to allow specifying random recolouring in a nice way (so much for an easy feature :D )

As usual, I have added a picture showing the new features, the windows have different colours (and there is a 'quit' window too!), and the pillar guests now appear in (almost) all colours of the rainbow.