Paint Themes
Before The 2021 FIRST Global RoboCo Challenge, RoboCo had a collection of 1x1 colored blocks for players to use if they wanted to make robots of different colors. Now, RoboCo has a fully customizable painting tool accessible via the Materials Menu and/or the Paint Tool that allows players to go from RoboEngineers to RoboArtists!
Painting Using the Materials Menu
Using the Materials Menu, you can edit, and apply color themes to your robot. Parts in this menu are divided into one of five categories: primary, secondary, tertiary, rods, and mechanical. This is the simplest form of coloring your robot, as it allows you to quickly color multiple parts with just a few clicks!
Painting Using the Paint Tool
The Paint Tool is an alternative to the Materials Menu and contains three different painting modes: theme mode, fill mode, and detail mode.
Theme Mode
If you want to apply themes to parts, you could select them and use the Theme Management Panel, but you can also use the Paint Tool in theme mode. This of course helps to switch between any multi-colored themes you may have in mind, like mint-chocolate or candy cane. But even if you want to paint something all red, you may bear in mind that parts consist of multiple facets, so it can be helpful to apply a theme with multiple shades of red so the part has more nuance and looks extra slick.
You can click the Paint Tool on parts one by one to make targeted color changes or hold down the mouse button to spray-paint multiple parts as your cursor moves over them.
Fill Mode
You can quickly make all facets of a part the same color using fill mode. Because why have only some purple, when you could have ALL THE PURPLE. Filled-in colors override the theme
Detail Mode
And if you want everything just right, you can change the facets of a part using detail mode. Detail colors also override the theme.
Color Hue Picker
In addition to our Paint Tool, RoboCo also allows players to select a specific color hue for your robot! You can either put in the hex code for the color of your choice or use the eyedropper within the game to collect colors directly from RoboCo!