Help! - I am trying to make my game have customizable colors for chara gfx

[yawngg]

How could this be accomplished? I can't find any documantation on the cmr format.

[yawngg]

It would be really nice to be able to use each item separately and have coloring effects like in charas.ex . If you guys can tell me how the cmr format works, I would gladly post a C source code of how I load and display them using the coloring effects as well. Please help:)

[drenrin2120]

If you're using rm2k or rm2k3, there's only way. Edit everything outside the maker via mspaint or other graphics program and just do palette swaps and import the files back into the maker. At which point, you'll be making a ton of conditional branches.

Also, this is the wrong board for this kind of topic. There is an rpgmaker programming board where this question would be more appropriate. Not a big deal, just some info for next time! =D

[Terrorantula]

The Color Replacer  plugin is quite useful for changing the the colors of existing items quickly, especially if you don't have Photoshop.  Also check out Mehdi's Absolute Color and Color Megamix plugins. Also weapons might be simpler, as you can simply give, for example, fire and ice swords their own slots in the battle animations. 

[fruckert]

I'm reasonably positive he's talking about an in-game thing.

If you weren't using RPG Maker (well, not so sure if XP and VX can do what I'm about to say), the way you'd do it is seperate the main character into separate pieces and grayscale them.
Each piece you'd tint according to the colour the player chose, and then draw each piece accordingly.
That's the way Terraria, and most games that allow custom colours do it.