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Re: New LDConfig.ldr color file
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lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
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Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:33:12 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Willy Tschager wrote:
> Hi folks,
<snip a lot of info>
Seems like quite an undertaking.
> Shall we restore the historical LDraw colors for the range from 0 to 50 since
> the new colors look unnatural and washed out?
My vote would go to keeping the old ldraw colors, like said else were most
monitors aren't calibrated.
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> Another issue is consistency. While some programs of the LDraw System of Tools
> already support the LDConfig.ldr file and use it instead of an inbuild color
> system some don't. In order to keep the colors consistent throughout the LDraw
> System of Tools it would be desirable to have all programs switch to the
> LDConfig file.
I don't know about other software but my LD4DStudio uses the config file as a
base, users can override anything to their liking when needed by editing
additional xml files.
> We also encourage a switch from the current sorting on numbers to an
> alphabetical order of the colors (perfect would be to leave the choice to the
> user). You'll also find a list with the original TGL numbers moved to a 3xxxx
> range. In no way have the TGL numbers to be mixed with LDraw colors. Also the
> comments where we matched the TLG numbers to LDraw colors should be hidden from
> the final user.
I don't think the order of things in the config file is relevant to any one but
the maintainers, Because I don't think software should present the raw content
to the user. Instead it should reformat / sort it in a sooting way.
About the >=30000 range, most current applications only allow upto 511 or 1023
for 'normal color numbers'. There are also some (unofficial?) reserved hex
spaces for encoded rgb values (#02000000..#03FFFFFF and 04000000..#07FFFFFF).
Taking this into account I would also suggest using a hex range for these lc
core colors, so the color decoder code in any program can identify them a such
e.g (#400..#EFF (1024..3839)).
Just my thoughts,
Roland
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| (...) This can be done with the caveat that we start with something like say 2001 or 3001 in order to preserve the original LEGO numbering starting from 1 to 300. for 2001 the TLG color number would be "#7D1". Correct? w. (15 years ago, 29-Jul-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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