simpel question about jit.fill ...

Per's icon

hi

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what is controlling which color that jit.fill is using. for example. how do I change the color in this very simple patch:

thanks

Christopher Dobrian's icon
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The 4 planes of the matrix in the jit.matrix object are alpha, red, green, blue (char data). The planes are numbered starting from 0: alpha=0, red=1, green=2, blue=3. The argument '3' of the jit.fill object specifies the value of its 'plane' attribute. Change that and you'll change the color.
You can read about this stuff in:
"What is a matrix?" https://cycling74.com/docs/max5/tutorials/jit-tut/jitterwhatisamatrix.html
and "Tutorial 5: ARGB color" https://cycling74.com/docs/max5/tutorials/jit-tut/jitterchapter05.html