rgb values?

[SgWRX]

i feel like a dork for not looking this up before i "need" it, but why can't i get rgb values in an arch&design diffuse color swatch when i click on the color selector? for instance 192 red is what decimal value? must be a way to change it?

 

thanks

[SandmanNinja]

Yes. Don't feel like a dork. Since the A&D materials use 0 to 1 values, there's a way around that (thank you, Bri at www.mentalboutmax.com !!)

 

Open your material editor

get your a&d material slot 'ready'

open a 'blank' generic (non-A&D slot next to it)

click the diffuse colour to enter the RGB values in the blank generic slot

ok - the colour is now set.

right-click the diffuse colour and then pick copy

click and select the A&D shader material slot

right-click on the COLOUR slot under the MAIN MATERIAL PARAMETERS rollout at the top and select paste

ta da

[Crazy Homeless Guy]

I believe the A&D materials only work with floating point color settings. I haven't done any more research than that.

[SgWRX]

yeah that's about all i know so far. otherwise i was thinking some neat way to convert using 255 as a base number or something i've been copying and pasting and that's keeping me going.

[SgWRX]

good point

[jackbird]

Hit Ctrl-N with the spinner highlighted.

 

This will pop up a window where you can enter mathematical expressions which will be pasted to the spinner on completion.

 

type (yourvalue/255.0) to convert 8-bit to float, or (yourvalue*255) for the other direction.

[SgWRX]

hey thanks that's a great tip!