Re: How do you organize your colors?

["Gene Crucean" <emailgeneonthelist(at)gmail.com>]

Probably more useful for something who does lots of materials and textures...

Which is probably the main use of colors in xsi ;-) It would be cool if xsi even had a simple toolbar like max. The "Color Clipboard". Basically you can just copy/paste/save colors with it. Simple but effective.

On 5/16/06, Marc-Andre Carbonneau <marc-andre.carbonneau(at)ubisoft.com> wrote:

Am I mad or something? What's about color that is missing?
Do you want a color palette a la Photoshop?
I personally never use that. Probably more useful for something who does
lots of materials and textures...


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From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf
Of Thomas Helzle
Sent: May 16, 2006 1:49 PM
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: How do you organize your colors?

So it is true that there is no native color organization in XSI?
Ouch.

I better make this a feature request then - drag and drop of colors into
and out of toolbars would be a first step.

The next step should be an overhaul of the color editors. I don't think
they are very efficient currently - way too many "layers" with little
functionality. It would make more sense to me to just have one color
editor that can be (pre-)set to show certain things, one of them a
custom color palette where you set a color chip with the right mouse and
grab a color with the left mouse button.
Those palettes should be saved with the scene and also savable to disk.
This palette should be a field next to the color selector (similar to
the windows color picker layout, but maybe reversed with the palette on
the right side which could be collapsible).

It would also be nice to find a way to better preserve RGB 255 values -
currently they never stay the same when the color editor is reopened.
There should be enough precision in a float for that IMO.

Amazing what basic stuff can be missing in a fantastic software like XSI
>LOL<

I will look into that ppg thing though.

Thank you!
And if there is a better trick currently, I'm all ears :-)

Thomas


On Tue, 16 May 2006 18:20:47 +0200, Kai Wolter <xsi(at)kaipirinha.com>
wrote:

> You can also create a custom pset and use the custom property wizard
to
> populate it with color parameters.
>
> Kai Wolter
>
> Thomas Helzle schrieb:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I hope I am missing something obvious, but the docs didn't help me
>> much and I couldn't find a good way to organize my project colors
yet...
>>
>> I find the color pickers in XSI rather tedious and inaccurate
>> (entering RGB 255 values especially - I understand that is because of
>> the conversion to and from float but it's annoying anyway...) when I
>> have to match certain product colors and I miss an obvious way to
save
>> colors and access them quickly later on.
>>
>> In Lighwave, there was a very cool color picker plugin called "Picky"
>> that came with a large selection of nice color presets,
doubleclicking
>> a color added it to a project palette (saved with the scene) and
>> another area was showing the last used colors.
>>
>> So how do you do it?
>>
>> Is there a way to save a color (and just a color) as a preset that I
>> can drag onto a color chip in XSI?
>>
>> Sorry if this is a stupid question.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Thomas Helzle
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