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Re: LDraw extended colors
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Thu, 2 Mar 2000 07:44:07 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Lars C. Hassing writes:
> The LDraw colors are 0-15, 32-47, 256-511 (and of course 16 and 24).
> Paul Gyugyi defined some more colors for LDLite, 17-23, 25, 57
> and "Direct Colors" in the range 0x04000000-0x07FFFFFF.
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> As MLCad supports these colors, I'm going to add support for them too.
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> However, Gyugyi packed two RGB's (for dithering) into each Direct Color
> leaving only 12 bits to each RGB, e.g. 0x04RGBRGB.
> Some L3P and L3Lab users have asked for the possibility to specify
> "true colors" (24 bit RGB's), so I would like to define/reserve the range
> 0x02000000-0x03FFFFFF for this.
> 0x02RRGGBB for solid colors and 0x03RRGGBB for transparent.
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> I will support, but not require, hex notation for colors (0x/0X prefix).
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> I hope MLCad, LDLite and other tools will support the new range too.
> /Lars
I will have to find a way how to define such colors in MLCad but I think I
will provide an option where the user can define if he/she likes 24bit or
12bit colors.
Generally no problem :-)
Michael
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| The LDraw colors are 0-15, 32-47, 256-511 (and of course 16 and 24). Paul Gyugyi defined some more colors for LDLite, 17-23, 25, 57 and "Direct Colors" in the range 0x04000000-0x07FFFFFF. As MLCad supports these colors, I'm going to add support for (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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