Luc-Eric: Sorry to hear that.
Thanks for the suggestion with the image, but the ppg thing, while complicated, would have the advantage of me being able to drag and drop in both directions. A ppg with maybe 50 colors included in a custom layout could be a real timesaver.
Marc-Andre: I don't talk about the native LW colorpicker - that isn't that much of a difference as you say. But Lightwave allows for Color Picker Plugins and there are several cool alternatives out there, the best one being "Picky":
This is a screenshot of the Color Tree in "Picky" with latest colors, project colors and the preset area:
http://www.screendream.de/stuff/Picky_ColorTree.jpg
(the main window is missing from this image)
I even miss this in Photoshop.
Cheers and thanks for the suggestions though,
Thomas Helzle
On Tue, 16 May 2006 20:13:34 +0200, Luc-Eric Rousseau <lucer(at)Softimage.COM> wrote:
It's very unlikely we'd do something about this in the near future, there are tons of other things to do and literally thousands of requests and suggestions in the queue. I think the previously suggested work-around are tool complicated; here's mine: Simply put draw your color swatches in a bitmap file, and display that image in XSI with either the netview, a synopic on the model, or god-knows-what. In property pages with color sliders, simply click the color chip and use the color picker to pick the color from your color swatch image.
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From: Marc-Andre Carbonneau
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: Thomas Helzle
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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