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Re: On obscure color conversions.
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Tue, 24 Oct 2000 14:18:48 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.mlcad, James J. wrote:
> In LDLite, a few colors were added to the existing LDraw/LEdit palette. Among
> them were 21, the glow-in-the-color, 25, the reddish orange, and 2 versions of
> tan. While these continue to look good in LDLite and MLCAD, they show up as
> pale imposters of 0-15 on LEdit. However, dithered -- and better looking --
> combinations of colors made in LEdit/LDraw (between 256 and 511), which do show
> up in MLCAD, are given no names, diminishing their effectiveness in printed
> instructions. Here is my solution to this growing problem. Official names
> should be given to the LDraw dithers (and some MLCAD 24-bit colors) in order
> to make them easier to use.
A number of the color-codes you listed *are* in the LDraw FAQ,
<http://www.ldraw.org/faq>, which is about as official as things get, for
colors in LDraw-world. These codes are:
> #382 - Tan (same as TLG's Tan)
> #366 - Gold
> #383 - Silver
> #42 - Trans-Chartreuse
> #494 - [Electric] Contact
> #462 - Orange
And you made some suggestions for alternatives to the standard color
values:
> 0x2FF8000 - Orange (same as 462, but closer to TLG's orange.)
> 0x2705000 - (Try this in place of #6 for POV-Ray rendering.)
> #503 - Metallic (not really Silver)
> #505 - Pastel Blue
> #441 - Sky Blue
> 0x3FF6000 - 24-bit Trans-Orange (same as TLG's trans-orange.)
> 0x21FCAFF - Autobot Blue (my 24-bit Sky Blue alternative)
(LDraw color #9 is a light blue, which can be used as the sky blue.)
> #510 - Pastel Yellow
(the LDraw FAQ lists 495 as Light Yellow. Are there two different shades
of light/pastel yellow?)
In LDLite, you can use the 0 COLOR command to redefine the RGB values used
for color codes, so it's possible to substitute these values, but still use
the standard color-codes.
I don't know if MLCAD recognizes the 0 COLOR command or not.
A couple of your suggestions, I'm not sure what LEGO colors they represent.
Help me out, what sets/themes are these from?
> #492 - Reddish Orange (or a transparent alternative for POV-Ray, ?)
> 0x28098B0 - Stormy Gray
And some of your ideas are for LEGO colors that don't have LDraw codes in
the FAQ. You are right, they should be in there.
> #277 - (Cool) Violet (same as purple used for Grimace McDonald's LEGO promo)
> #430 - "Spinach Green" or Chartreuse
> 0x3500080 - Trans-Violet (as used in Belville's "Queen's Chamber" offering.)
BTW, here are all the entries in the current LDraw FAQ that don't have
LDraw codes:
Glow in the dark RGB: 224 255 176 LDLite: 21
Light purple RGB: 224 204 240 LDLite: 20
Lime green (BT II) RGB: 173 221 80
Pastel green RGB: 102 240 153 LDLite: 17
Purple RGB: 153 51 153 LDLite: 22
Purple blue RGB: 76 0 204 LDLite: 23
Transparent orange RGB: 255 102 0 LDLite: 57 POV-Ray: <1,0.68,0,0.8>
Steve
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| (...) of (...) show (...) Thanks for mentioning the LDraw FAQ. At the bottom of my own LDraw page (URL), I've clipped the chapters involving colors and inserted a few of my own color alternatives which should work on either LDraw, MLCad, or POV-Ray. (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| This post is here to start a discussion on color names for obscure combinations made by older programs. In LDLite, a few colors were added to the existing LDraw/LEdit palette. Among them were 21, the glow-in-the-color, 25, the reddish orange, and 2 (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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