Color Gun

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Color Gun
Paints factory buildings and vehicles. The color can be adjusted prior to painting.
Unlocked at	Flower Petals Research - Color Gun
Ammo	Color Cartridge
Magazine size	100
Range	100 m
Rate of fire	2 /s
Stack Size	1
Sink Value	860
Blueprint Path /Game/FactoryGame/Resource/Equipment/ColorGun/BP_EquipmentDescriptorColorGun.BP_EquipmentDescriptorColorGun_C

Color Cartridge
Ammo for the Color Gun. Necessary to change the color of factory buildings and vehicles.
Unlocked at	Flower Petals Research - Color Cartridges
Stack Size	200
Sink Value	10
Blueprint Path /Game/FactoryGame/Resource/Parts/ColorCartridge/Desc_ColorCartridge.Desc_ColorCartridge_C
Fuel
Energy	900 MJ
Stack Energy	180 GJ
Burn Time
Stack Burn Time

The Color Gun is a hand-held tool that allows the color theme of buildings to be changed, improving the aesthetics of the factory and allowing color-coding. It consumes one Color Cartridge for each use and has a magazine size of 100. When reloading, it consumes color cartridges from the engineer's inventory.

The Color Cartridge is ammunition for the Color Gun. Each cartridge provides one shot for the Color Gun, regardless of the size of the colored object or even if a paint-able object was hit or not.

Color Cartridge can also be used as a fuel for Vehicles. At 900 MJ, it is the 3rd most energy efficient non-radioactive fuel item in the game after  Battery (6000 MJ) and  Packaged Turbofuel (2000 MJ). It can't be used as a fuel for Biomass Burner or other generators though.

Unlock

• It can be unlocked by completing the Flower Petals Research in the M.A.M..

Obtaining

Crafting

Recipe	Ingredients												Building	Products		Prerequisites
Color Gun	5 × Iron Plate						80 × Screw						Equipment Workshop × 20	1 × Color Gun		Flower Petals Research - Color Gun
	40 × Wire

Recipe	Ingredients												Building	Products		Prerequisites
Color Cartridge	5 × Flower Petals 37.5 / min												Constructor 8 sec × 2	10 × Color Cartridge 75 / min 3.2 MJ / item		Flower Petals Research - Color Cartridges

Changing Color

While the Color Gun is equipped, to choose one of the 16 preset color themes. The preset color for each theme can be edited, but doing so will also update all buildings which use that theme. The top-left color theme is the default orange and blue that all buildings start with. Changing this theme changes all unpainted buildings.

Each color theme consists of two colors. In the right-click menu, the player can use the sliders to edit each color, which uses the HSV color space. By clicking on the numbers on the right side a number can be manually entered. A building aimed by the color gun will be highlighted. The paint cursor at the center of the game window indicates whether the current target can be painted: if it is paintable, it shows the paint bucket icon with a drop. If not, it will show a 'X' beside the paint cursor.

The UI of the Color Gun

Preset Color Codes

Primary				Secondary
	HSV	RGB	HEX		HSV	RGB	HEX
	16, 0.93, 0.95	242, 77, 17	#F24D11		232, 0.57, 0.26	29, 34, 66	#1D2242
	211, 0.77, 0.65	38, 100, 166	#2664A6		36, 0.64, 0.34	87, 65, 31	#57411F
	11, 0.91, 0.8	204, 52, 18	#CC3412		234, 0.2, 0.38	78, 79, 97	#4E4F61
	236, 0.32, 0.18	31, 32, 46	#1F202E		147, 0.34, 0.36	61, 92, 75	#3D5C4B
	221, 0.08, 0.81	190, 185, 207	#BEB9CF		232, 0.57, 0.26	29, 34, 66	#1D2242
	91, 0.61, 0.73	127, 186, 73	#7FBA49		232, 0.57, 0.26	29, 34, 66	#1D2242
	319, 0.65, 1	255, 89, 203	#FF59CB		232, 0.57, 0.26	29, 34, 66	#1D2242
	176, 0.48, 0.87	115, 222, 215	#73DED7		232, 0.58, 0.26	29, 34, 66	#1D2242
	35, 0.79, 0.49	125, 84, 26	#7D541A		180, 0.06, 0.35	84, 89, 89	#545959
	35, 0.29, 0.96	245, 215, 174	#F5D7AE		232, 0.58, 0.26	29, 34, 66	#1D2242
	263, 0.66, 0.98	148, 85, 250	#9455FA		232, 0.58, 0.26	29, 34, 66	#1D2242
	159, 0.69, 0.64	0, 135, 78	#0874E		232, 0.58, 0.26	56, 56, 56	#1D2242
	52, 0.65, 0.93	237, 217, 83	#EDD953		232, 0.58, 0.26	29, 34, 66	#1D2242
	65, 0.14, 0.31	78, 79, 68	#4E4F44		232, 0.58, 0.26	29, 34, 66	#1D2242
	309, 0.79, 0.47	120, 25, 106	#78196A		232, 0.58, 0.26	29, 34, 66	#1D2242
	0, 0, 0.22	56, 56, 56	#383838		235, 0.1, 0.87	200, 202, 222	#C8CADE

Non-paintable objects

• Electric Locomotive
• Explorer
• Freight Car
• Personal Storage Box
• Tractor

Current issues

• When using a paint gun, it will cause the engineer's running speed to slow down for a brief moment, then resumes back to normal running speed.
• When painting pumps, players must restart the game before the color change is visible.
• When painting pipelines, the flow indicator will remain the same color as before while the rest of the pipe changes color. Players must restart the game before the color change on the flow indicator is visible.

Trivia

• A color cartridge will be consumed even if the engineer aimed at nothing or painted a building with the same colors it already had.
• Sometimes the color won't change instantly and will have a few seconds of delay.
• Despite its description, it cannot paint vehicles, not even by changing the default color scheme. Train cargo containers will have the color of the current station for the load/unload animations until the animation finishes, after which their color reverts.

Gallery

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  Several Freight Platforms painted with the Color Gun.

• 

  Pipelines, Pipeline Pumps and a few Walls painted with the Color Gun.

History

• Patch 0.3.4.14: Production cycle shortened, production values are unchanged.