Ok, I see what you are requesting.
Luc-Eric's suggestion is how some work over here in a netview.
I'm sure someone out there could code you something like "Picky" in no
time!
This really doesn't look that much compliucated!(for someone who knows
it's way around XSI's SDK. ;)
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf
Of Thomas Helzle
Sent: May 16, 2006 3:06 PM
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: How do you organize your colors?
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.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> 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...
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> 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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