Image.UI gets color inverted if photo is PNG

[FuckingNerd]

So the photo module as asset is the issue.

[cvp]

@FuckingNerd No idea, try to import your photo as a local Pythonista file and then use it as texture

[FuckingNerd]

I have no idea how to access those imported files(never done it). This is not the way it seems. Can you help me out ?

[cvp]

@FuckingNerd I think you have correctly imported some images and you can replace in my little script my 1 - 97f7tRn.png by one of your IMG_xxxx.PNG

[FuckingNerd]

Did that. No color invert. So it’s the asset.

[cvp]

@FuckingNerd I guess, sorry, I can't help more 😢

[FuckingNerd]

Helps for the effort man!

[cvp]

@FuckingNerd Perhaps, you could

• get the asset as an ui.Image
• write it as a local (temporary) file
• use it as Texture
• remove the local file

[FuckingNerd]

I was able to solve the problem.

Instead of using asset.get_ui_image() and pass it on to SpriteNode(Texture(..ui_image..)) I got a PIL image directly with asset.get_image() and transformed it with the scripts found here to and ui image.

relevant from above link:

# pil <=> ui
def pil2ui(imgIn):
	with io.BytesIO() as bIO:
		imgIn.save(bIO, 'PNG')
		imgOut = ui.Image.from_data(bIO.getvalue())
	del bIO
	return imgOut

I hope you find this useful google hero from the future. This solves “weird false inverted colors for PNG ui.image from assets in photo module”.

[cvp]

@FuckingNerd 👍

[cvp]

@FuckingNerd you could try Asset.get_image_data which could be quicker

Asset.get_image_data(original=False)
Fetch the asset’s image data, and return it as a io.BytesIO object. 
You can use io.BytesIO.getvalue() to get the image data as a byte string.

By default, the most recent version of the image is returned; 
pass original=True to get the image without any adjustments/edits.

If you only need the image for saving it as a file, 
this is more efficient than Asset.get_image(). 
The returned io.BytesIO has an additional uti attribute 
that can be used to determine the file type of the image data.