PIXI: Change only non transparent pixels of sprite to one solid color

Question

Here is a solution that just replaces the entire texture with a solid color:

sprite.texture = PIXI.Texture.WHITE

Obviously this wont work with transparent sprites. Any transparency ends up solid as well. (Resulting in a solid rectangle)

How could I change the color of only non transparent pixels of the sprite?

(tint wont work either since all sprites would have to be white)

Answer 1

As far as I know, you can't do it with Pixi. According to one of Pixi maintainers here, you can use dark tint from pixi-heaven package (https://github.com/gameofbombs/pixi-heaven). This exact example is listed in its readme:

Make whole sprite of one color:

sprite.tint = 0xffaacc;
sprite.color.dark[0] = sprite.color.light[0];
sprite.color.dark[1] = sprite.color.light[1];
sprite.color.dark[2] = sprite.color.light[2];
//dont forget to invalidate, after you changed dark DIRECTLY
sprite.color.invalidate();