Coloring a spriteBatch sprite

[KayleMaster]

I have soldiers, and to distinguish enemy from friendly, I decided to color them respectively blue and red.
This is simple if it's a sprite via draw.setColor but how would I go about a spriteBatch? (one batch can have both colored units)

[bartbes]

Like love.graphics.setColor does without SpriteBatches, SpriteBatch:setColor affects the colour of the sprites added after the call.

[Tjakka5]

Doing SpriteBatch:setColor will alter the color of all the next sprites you set/add in the batch; similar to how love.graphics.setColor works.
Documentation here:
https://love2d.org/wiki/SpriteBatch:setColor

[KayleMaster]

Damn! Thanks, I didn't see that!
I knew there was a way..

EDIT: Is it possible to achieve something like this code-wise ?

[Tjakka5]

Sure!

First, the sprite you want to edit needs to be white so the color will apply correctly.
If you want to color a sprite partially, you have to separate it into multiple.

You can edit the color with just RGB(A) values. But if you really want HSV you can look into converting it.
https://gist.github.com/raingloom/3cb61 ... caa326a25a