Subject:
|
Re: Black colour in new instructions
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.inst, lugnet.cad
|
Date:
|
Sun, 2 Nov 2003 20:01:19 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
383 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.cad, Jennifer Clark wrote:
> I've particularly noticed in some of the newer technic sets that black axles and
> friction pins use a blacker black than other black parts, such as bricks, beams
> etc. In other words, the standard bricks are a very dark grey whereas the axles
> seem to be either black or very close to it.
>
> I like this approach since it adds clarity to instructions where there are many
> axles and black bricks, which sometimes get hard to distinguish in complex
> models. Presumably Lego have done their research with this and know what they
> are talking about.
>
> A quick look in MLCAD reveals that black appears to be RGB (34,34,34). How about
> we have a darker black allocated for axles/friction pins?
I can't really see allocating 'AxleBlack' as a standard LDraw.org color, since the
two shades are an artifact of Lego instructions. But you can easily do this on your
own - use the Custom button in MLCAD's color dialog to specify a different RGB value.
> My apologies if this is already well ploughed ground.
No, I don't think it's been brought up before.
Steve
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: Black colour in new instructions
|
| (...) Yup, I'm aware of the MLCAD custom colours, but there is a good reason for me not wanting to use these unilaterally: with tools such as LPub generating parts list images and inventories, I thought it might make sense to have a commonly (...) (23 years ago, 3-Nov-03, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.cad)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Black colour in new instructions
|
| I've particularly noticed in some of the newer technic sets that black axles and friction pins use a blacker black than other black parts, such as bricks, beams etc. In other words, the standard bricks are a very dark grey whereas the axles seem to (...) (23 years ago, 31-Oct-03, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.cad)
|
10 Messages in This Thread:
  
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
