From 62ba700c051ca4f89015a6e1edc1900ef0a6c448 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ghommie <42542238+Ghommie@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 17:09:48 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Ports "Avoid generating the atom colour list on the lighting
 object"

---
 code/modules/lighting/lighting_object.dm | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/code/modules/lighting/lighting_object.dm b/code/modules/lighting/lighting_object.dm
index c0c5a411e7..9ceb341f91 100644
--- a/code/modules/lighting/lighting_object.dm
+++ b/code/modules/lighting/lighting_object.dm
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 	icon             = LIGHTING_ICON
 	icon_state       = "transparent"
-	color            = LIGHTING_BASE_MATRIX
+	color            = null //we manually set color in init instead
 	plane            = LIGHTING_PLANE
 	mouse_opacity = MOUSE_OPACITY_TRANSPARENT
 	layer            = LIGHTING_LAYER
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@
 /atom/movable/lighting_object/Initialize(mapload)
 	. = ..()
 	verbs.Cut()
+	//We avoid setting this in the base as if we do then the parent atom handling will add_atom_color it and that
+	//is totally unsuitable for this object, as we are always changing its colour manually
+	color = LIGHTING_BASE_MATRIX
 
 	myturf = loc
 	if (myturf.lighting_object)