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Re: LDGlite and LPub (and maybe ldview?
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Date: 
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.

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



Message has 3 Replies:
  Re: LDGlite and LPub (and maybe ldview?
 
(...) Let's have a vote! I'm with Orion btw :) (20 years ago, 16-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
  Re: LDGlite and LPub (and maybe ldview?
 
(...) 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?
 
(...) 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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  Re: LDGlite and LPub (and maybe ldview?
 
(...) 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. (20 years ago, 15-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)

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