Homeworld Effects Manual: setDeltaColor()
setDeltaColor(float red, float green, float blue)
Useful range of values: (-1, 1) for all three variables
Default values: (0,0,0)
setColor() takes a single RBG variable as input, but setDeltaColor() takes three floats. The range 0 - 1 for one of setDeltaColor()'s variables corresponds to the range 0 - 255 for one of the components of setColor()'s variable. Each of setDeltaColor()'s variables indicates how much each component of the Color attribute will change per second. Since they represent change, red, green, and blue can be positive or negative.
Setting the Lighting attribute disables the Color attribute, so setLighting(1) renders this command useless.