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Re: Using Stone Colors in LDraw/MLCAD
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lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.color
Date: 
Thu, 6 Jul 2006 18:55:04 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.mlcad, Ross Crawford wrote:
In lugnet.cad.mlcad, David J. Perdue wrote:
I would like to use the following colors in MLCAD:

1. Light Stone Gray

2. Medium Stone Gray

3. Dark Stone Gray

I have been attempting to find or create these colors in MLCAD, but I have not
been fully successful. I’ll also be rendering with these colors, so they will
need to work outside of MLCAD as well.

Anybody have any ideas of how to "get" these colors in MLCAD?

Hi David,

As far as I can work out, MLCad does not currently support the colours defined
in ldconfig.ldr. It doesn't seem to work for me anyway. But you can define
custom colours in your models, using the colour dialog you get by clicking
"more" to the right of the standard colour boxes, and clicking "define...".
These colours are not global however, and must be defined for each model. The
RGB values can be found here:
http://www.peeron.com/cgi-bin/invcgis/colorguide.cgi

I found this link just yesterday or the day before, and I was glad to see that
the three stone colors were on it. Now I have the RGB values, although the RGB
for Dark Stone Grey doesn't seem to work too well.

However, if you want to render them using l3p, I'm not sure if l3p will
recognise those custom MLCad colours. So for that it's probably easier to do as
Tim suggested - use the standard colours in MLCad, and convert them afterwards.

HTH

ROSCO

Light stone grey seems to be working well with l3p and POV-Ray. For now at
least. I think if I use that one and dark gray as a substitute for dark stone
gray--and maybe do some additional tweaking--that might be good enough for my
rendering purposes.

Thanks for your response!

- David



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  Re: Using Stone Colors in LDraw/MLCAD
 
(...) In your LDraw install directory (usually C:\LDraw), there should be a file of color definitions, ldconfig.ldr. You can also find it at (URL). This file includes RGB values for colors, that might work better than the values on the colorguide (...) (18 years ago, 6-Jul-06, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.color)

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  Re: Using Stone Colors in LDraw/MLCAD
 
(...) Hi David, As far as I can work out, MLCad does not currently support the colours defined in ldconfig.ldr. It doesn't seem to work for me anyway. But you can define custom colours in your models, using the colour dialog you get by clicking (...) (18 years ago, 6-Jul-06, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.color)

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