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...
Yes, and that would be me :-)
(Hm - I don't know about you being mad BTW. ;-) )
I personally miss a palette about 100 times a day.
I am doing illustrations mostly and often have to work with company CI colors.
Those use between 5 and 25 main colors, sometimes with many subcolors that have to match as close as possible.
In other cases I have a spectrum of colors that I have to stick to through 5 to 30 images...
XSI simply has the most tedious color handling I've seen so far for this kind of work.
I will send it to the official channels.
Cheers,
Thomas Helzle
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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
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