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Re: LDGlite and LPub (and maybe ldview?
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lugnet.cad
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Sat, 16 Oct 2004 00:26:24 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, David Laswell wrote:
> In lugnet.cad, Steve Bliss wrote:
> > At least part of the reason is that Gray is a fairly common color; Clear is
> > more rare (for most parts). When parts where shown in gray, it was sometimes
> > confusing whether it was gray-the-actual-color or gray-the-default-color.
> > Using a less-common color reduces the amount of confusion.
> >
> > The only way to completely avoid confusion would be to find a color that
> > would not be confused with an actual LEGO color. That's a challenging
> > proposition these days.
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> How about a transparent brown? TLC already has an official trans-brown
> (smoke/trans-black), so there's not much risk of them ever using that.
Not that my opinion goes for everyone but I think a solid color looks better. A
transparent render show all the back edge making the image appear jumbled. To
be honest I don't see how using grey, yellow, red or any other solid color is
confusing since there's a color chart for the part immediately below the preview
pic.
-Orion
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 | | Re: LDGlite and LPub (and maybe ldview?
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| (...) The default color is also used in inventory lists, when there's no matching LDraw color for the part-color. For example, this set has a lot on non-LDraw'n colors: (URL) (20 years ago, 18-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
| | | Re: LDGlite and LPub (and maybe ldview?
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| (...) I always thought solid colors were confusing, especially where the pattern on the part happend to be of the same color. However, I just added support for a new user preference, allowing you to choose what color to use: (URL) that helps! Dan (20 years ago, 18-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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