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    Color Definition for Dull Silver —Orion Pobursky
   Based on some discussion off Lugnet, it has been decided that the color number for Dull (Brushed) Silver will be 375 (dithered color 7 and color 7). Michael said he'll update MLCad and I'm adding this to the lugnetcolors.inc file used by Jeroen's (...) (21 years ago, 22-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
   
        Re: Color Definition for Dull Silver —Tore Eriksson
     (...) Pity we couldn't use it for grey rubber. Do we have a number for any other rubber color than black? Yellow and yellow is electric. (Yes I know, I suggested it...) Do we have any other special colors using the method of dither a color with (...) (21 years ago, 22-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
   
        Re: Color Definition for Dull Silver —Don Heyse
     (...) Is this the same as the Peeron FlatSilver or DkFlatSilver colors? (URL) is it something not listed there? If it's not, which parts use it so those of us using opengl can get an idea of the specular qualities? Don PS. Why does all the (...) (21 years ago, 22-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
    
         Re: Color Definition for Dull Silver —Orion Pobursky
     (...) I'm basing this color off of the color listed here: (URL) Don (...) Sorry, this is/was not intentional. -Orion (21 years ago, 22-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
   
        Re: Color Definition for Dull Silver —Lars C. Hassing
     (...) L3P has since January 20, 2001 used color 375 for gray rubber. (URL) special colors: 256: 256 + 16* 0 + 0 Black rubber 375: 256 + 16* 7 + 7 Gray rubber 494: 256 + 16*14 + 14 Electrical contacts (yellow) 383: 256 + 16* 7 + 15 Chrome 503: 256 + (...) (21 years ago, 22-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
    
         Re: Color Definition for Dull Silver —Orion Pobursky
      (...) thoughts. - Are there any grey rubber parts? I can't think of any off the top of my head. - Maybe color 376? I definately want a number defined for this color since it is common enough to make using chrome unacceptible. (...) would make coming (...) (21 years ago, 22-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
     
          Re: Color Definition for Dull Silver —Ross Crawford
       (...) Yes the old style tyres (URL) and (URL) definitely came in light grey. ROSCO (21 years ago, 22-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
      
           Re: Color Definition for Dull Silver —Niels Karsdorp
       (...) Like in sets (just listed a few, not all) 331 (URL) 332 (URL) 333 (URL) 334 (URL) 335 (URL) 371 (URL) (I've got 333 and 335 myself, and since I like to make LDraw copies of sets I have, I need the grey rubber color :-) The link to bricklink (...) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
      
           Rubber Colors Needed (Was: Color Definition for Dull Silver) —Tore Eriksson
       (...) I saw that link at Brickshelf, too, and was very surprised. Never heard of that those tyres came in white. Samsonite maybe? I'm tempted to buy a couple just to satisfy my curiousity. Rubber belts have come in many colours, (URL) we need many (...) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
      
           Re: Rubber Colors Needed (Was: Color Definition for Dull Silver) —Tore Eriksson
        OR... We could pick up the old 0 TEXTURE meta-command? No need for new volour numbers? (URL) for replying to myself) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
      
           Re: Rubber Colors Needed (Was: Color Definition for Dull Silver) —Dave Schuler
       (...) I seem to have a few of these white (sort of a chalky gray-white, in my collection) tires from the early 70's, but I have no idea which of my early sets included them. I always figured that the white color was simply a sign of degraded rubber. (...) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
      
           Variants of Wheel Holder Brick (Wa: Rubber Colors Needed) —Tore Eriksson
       (...) Witch one of them? I know by three variants only by heart and with some research, I will probably find more... :) (...) I think it would be great for Bricklink and such purposes. /Tore (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
      
           Re: Variants of Wheel Holder Brick (Wa: Rubber Colors Needed) —Niels Karsdorp
       (...) You mean part 7049 ? I know the following variants: (Brick, Bottom, Shafts) White, Red, Red White, Clear, Clear White, Clear, Black White, Clear, Red Black, Milkywhite, Red Black, Clear, Red Several wheels (spoked and studded, regular and (...) (21 years ago, 24-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
      
           Re: Variants of Wheel Holder Brick (Wa: Rubber Colors Needed) —Clark Stephens
       (...) Niels, There is also a Black, Clear, Clear Here's a pic of 6 of them (I'm missing the White/Clear/Red) (URL) have several such variations pictured in my Comparisons gallery on Brickshelf: (URL) that helps, Clark Visit my Vintage Parts pages, (...) (21 years ago, 25-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
      
           Re: Variants of Wheel Holder Brick (Wa: Rubber Colors Needed) —Ross Crawford
       (...) There is also white, clear, red/black (URL) (21 years ago, 28-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
     
          Re: Color Definition for Dull Silver —Lars C. Hassing
      (...) [snip] (...) Yes, as soon as the format is settled. /Lars (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
     
          Re: Color Definition for Dull Silver —Don Heyse
      (...) On that note, let me toss in my $2. I agree with Cary and Steve that dithering should go. Who needs it? The renderer should be able to convert from true color to dithered colors if the display is underpowered. If you must have it for some (...) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
     
          Re: Color Definition for Dull Silver —Tore Eriksson
       (...) It's needed for backwards compability. Using an old/not updated renderer shouldn't make the rendering look awkward. But using a newer renderer should make it better. So is the case with grey rubber, black rubber, and electric conductor. When (...) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
      
           Re: Color Definition for Dull Silver —Don Heyse
       (...) No it's not. If the render is old and not updated then it will never the ldconfig.ldr file anyhow, so the dithered colors in ledit and ldraw will never change. This is for the future. (...) That's still true, but you should be able to replace (...) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
      
           Re: Color Definition for Dull Silver —Tore Eriksson
       (...) So far it is worth less... ;-) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
     
          Re: Color Definition for Dull Silver —Steve Bliss
      (...) Actually, I want to keep dithering. (...) Shrug. I dunno. (...) I'm OK with AARRGGBB, if everyone agrees with that. I'd recommend that programs recognize a variety of semi-standard formats, specifically: #AARRGGBB 0xAARRGGBB AARRGGBB (...) (21 years ago, 24-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
     
          Re: Color Definition for Dull Silver —Don Heyse
      (...) Ok, I was agreeing with your proposal to make it optional and relegate it to the end of the line with the MATERIAL properties. And hopefully it'll never be used, except possibly to reproduce a texture that's stippled in real life like the (...) (21 years ago, 24-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
     
          Re: Color Definition for Dull Silver —Lars C. Hassing
      How about dropping the AA ? So far, IIRC, no-one has ever used it. If another value than the default (0x80?) is wanted, it can be put into the MATERIAL section: transparent=25% The we will use the familiar LDraw color codes for both EdgeColor and (...) (21 years ago, 25-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
    
         Re: Color Definition for Dull Silver —Orion Pobursky
     (...) thoughts. - Are there any grey rubber parts? I can't think of any off the top of my head. - Maybe color 376? I definately want a number defined for this color since it is common enough to make using chrome unacceptible. (...) would make coming (...) (21 years ago, 22-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
   
        Re: Color Definition for Dull Silver —Steve Bliss
     [Not really a .cad.ray question, but it's a gray area, so I'm leaving the cross-post] (...) You might want to visit Peeron (or Clark's color pages), there is more than one color that fits your description. Apologies if you grabbed the color name (...) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
   
        Re: Color Definition for Dull Silver —Orion Pobursky
   (...) A quick clarification on this. My post above was poorly worded in that it implies that this number definition was already chisled in to stone (thanks for pointing this out Steve). My intention with this pat was to open the idea up to (...) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
 

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