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Re: Dark Red in trains (was ...Dark Red LMS 4F 0-6-0 Freight Locomotive)
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Wed, 21 Aug 2002 20:39:19 GMT
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I've looked at the ldraw.org color table but didn't know there was a system
to determine a color value.
272 = (that's 1 (blue) * 16 + 0 (black) + 256) looks awfully like an
equation of sorts, is there a definition on how this works somewhere? And I
wonder why the MLCad fields aren't auto populated then.
SteveB(arile)
PNLTC
In lugnet.trains, Steve Bliss writes:
> In lugnet.trains, Stefan Garcia wrote:
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> > Jason and Steve,
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> > What is the color number for dk red and dk blue (in MLCad)? I'm trying to
> > do a Napa Valley Alco rendering, and it uses dk red. As well as Lehigh
> > Valley and one other one which I can't remember the roadname to at the moment.
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> Well, I'm not Steve B ... well, actually I am. Anyway, looking at
> <www.ldraw.org/reference/specs/colors>, the color code for dark red is
> 320. There isn't a recommended/official color code for dark blue; I'd
> go with 272 (that's 1 (blue) * 16 + 0 (black) + 256).
>
> Steve
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 | | Re: Dark Red in trains (was ...Dark Red LMS 4F 0-6-0 Freight Locomotive)
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| (...) Huh. There used to be documentation of this (I thought), but I can't find one now. It's pretty simple - when you want to mix two of the colors from 0 to 15 (black, blue, green, teal, red, dark pink, brown, gray, dark gray, light blue, bright (...) (22 years ago, 22-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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